Three forward-looking signals Rick is watching closely this week: the commercial lending speed gap forming between AI-enabled and AI-adjacent regional banks, the compliance monitoring deficit that regulators will eventually quantify in examination guidance, and the core banking execution wave that is locking in architectural choices with decade-long consequences. This is not a news roundup. It is pattern recognition from someone who has lived through major banking transformations and knows what the early signals usually mean.
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