By Published On: October 29, 2025

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🌐 Spotlight: The Wake-Up Call exposes digital illusions in banking.

🌐 This Week’s Sketch: The Customer Call That Never Ends shows how poor service design erodes trust.

🌐 News: Core Banking News covers BNPL and modernization.

🌐 Strategy: Reveals real change beyond tech upgrades.

🌐 Workflow Fix: The Loan Decision Someday highlights how slow approvals hurt trust.

🌐 Careers: CSP Talent Spotlight highlights hybrid M&A roles in NY.

🌐 Next Week: Breaking the Illusion of Progress exposes fake digital transformation.

Strategy meets execution here. Don’t miss what could spark your next big move.


The Wake Up Call

For Community Banks

Many community banks confuse being digital with being transformed. True transformation goes beyond apps and websites—it requires a clear roadmap, integrated core strategy, and reengineered customer journeys.

 

Many banks believe they’ve gone digital, launching an app, tweaking a website, or partnering with a fintech. But surface-level upgrades aren’t transformation. In this no-punches-pulled article, we break down the most common red flags of false progress and what real core modernization looks like, from tech stack shifts to culture change.

 

Learn how to spot digital illusions, avoid costly detours, and build the kind of bank your future customers (and teams) will thank you for.

 


The Customer Call That Never Ends

A three-hour hold and a hollow “your call is important to us” — a reminder that good service isn’t measured in hold times.

Endless hold times aren’t a tech glitch, they’re a strategy failure. This piece unpacks how outdated service systems quietly erode trust, frustrate customers, and undermine even the best transformation efforts. Discover how forward-thinking banks are redesigning service around empathy, integration, and real-time support.


DXC integrates Splitit’s BNPL solution into its Hogan core platform, enabling 40+ banks to offer embedded installment payments by 2026.

CSI acquires Apiture to combine core and digital banking into a unified experience—streamlining modernization, UX, and lending.

Mambu partners with Ardeco to reduce implementation risks and speed up legacy core replacement with modern architecture.

Ready to explore?

Dive into the highlights to see how leaders in the banking space are tackling innovation, efficiency, and scalability head-on. Let these stories inspire your own transformation journey.


Digital Transformation Vs.

Real Transformation

 

Spot the illusion. A refreshed app or sleek website doesn’t equal transformation. Real progress requires core changes, integration, and reengineered processes.

 

Many community banks mistake surface-level “digital projects” for true transformation, but a new app isn’t progress if your core and processes stay stuck in the past. This article exposes the red flags of false modernization and shows how real transformation starts with strategy, not cosmetics.

 


The Loan Decision… Someday

Loan decisions delayed by outdated systemsDelays in loan decisions don’t just frustrate customers, they damage your brand. Learn how leading banks are cutting approval times from 14 days to 2 with smarter automation and integrated credit systems.

 


 

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