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Banking & Payments Bulletin

The Banking & Payments Bulletin delivers monthly insights on retail and commercial banking trends for senior banking executives. Each issue features expert analysis on digital banking transformation, payments innovation, ATM market dynamics, financial crime prevention, and strategic priorities shaping the industry.

October 2026 Issue Highlights

The October 2026 edition of the Banking & Payments Bulletin explores the technology decisions informing commercial banking roadmaps, the rapidly developing global market for commercial payment cards, and how to drive advisor productivity in bank wealth management divisions. This issue also offers insights on how to fix unnecessary card transaction declines, the network partnerships that are scaling ATM acceptance, and how AI is rewriting the rules of strategic planning. We also report on how institutions are tackling the agentic AI challenge, the tension between financial inclusion policies and cashless agendas in the Middle East and Africa, and feature a profile of ATM and cards intelligence in Mexico. 

What 50 Vendors Reveal About Commercial Banking Technology

Institutions are running out of room to defer modernization. Datos Insights’ The Fintech 50 report sheds light on the maturing fintech ecosystem.

International Issuers Adopt Scale and Specialism Approach

The potential for growth and higher profits in the commercial payment cards market is attracting the attention of international issuers.

Why Bank Wealth Managers Can't Be Confident in Their Own Confidence

Driving advisor productivity in bank wealth management divisions revolves around three structural gaps, but none of them closes on its own.

How Avoiding Unnecessary Declines Boosts Revenue and Reduces Cost

The trade-off between blocking fraud and preserving customer experience is preventing card issuers from fixing unnecessary declines.

The Agentic Framework Challenge: Preparation Without Confidence

Institutions are moving forward cautiously with agentic AI but deep uncertainty persists, especially around fraud prevention and detection.

Cash Access Grows in Africa as Gulf Markets Turn Digital

Financial inclusion policies and cashless agendas are pulling the Middle East and Africa region’s cash infrastructure in opposite directions.
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