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🌐 Spotlight: Welcoming Mark La Penta, guiding CSP’s modernization strategy.
🌐 This Week’s Sketch: The Fine Print Nobody Reads shows how complexity kills trust.
🌐 News: Core Banking News highlights major upgrades and digital moves.
🌐 Strategy: The illusion of digital progress masks deeper transformation failures.
🌐 Workflow Fix: The Fintech Rabbit Trick hides real transformation gaps.
🌐 Ops Insight: Modular cores cut risk, cost, and time with step-by-step modernization.
🌐 Careers: Explore new openings in treasury and IT, hybrid and remote roles available.
🌐 Next Week: Next issue reveals digital illusions and real progress.
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Advisor Spotlight
Welcoming Mark La Penta
We’re thrilled to welcome Mark La Penta as a Senior Advisor at Core System Partners. With years of executive experience spanning technology, banking and operations, including roles as CIO at Bank Leumi and MetLife Bank. Mark brings proven leadership in large-scale transformations.
At CSP, he helps clients navigate core modernization, M&A transitions and regulatory challenges with clarity and calm.
Read more about how Mark’s experience is shaping CSP’s transformation advisory approach.
The Fine Print Nobody Reads
This piece explores how bloated disclosures, legal jargon and outdated policy docs erode trust during core transformations. Learn how leading banks turn transparency into a competitive advantage.
Tangerine signs a 10-year deal with Engine by Starling to replace FIS Profile with a cloud-native core, Starling’s first North American client.Trade groups push back on trust bank applications from Circle, Ripple, and Fidelity, citing lack of oversight in crypto-enabled core banking services.WisdomTree partners with BNY Mellon to power its digital asset platform, enabling stablecoin and tokenized fund access via on-chain banking rails.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. |
The Illusion of Progress
In Digital Banking
Many banks proudly claim they’ve gone digital, rolling out apps, launching fintech pilots or refreshing their websites. But surface-level moves aren’t transformation. This no-nonsense article exposes the most common red flags of false progress and explains what real core modernization truly demands, from tech stack shifts to operating model overhaul.
The Fintech Pilot Rabbit Trick
A flashy fintech pilot might look like progress, but when the core’s outdated and the branch still does the heavy lifting, it’s just smoke and mirrors. This piece unpacks why real transformation takes more than a quick magic trick.
Digital Illusion Vs. Real Transformation
Delaying transformation may feel safe, but every quarter you wait quietly compounds into lost customers, drained talent, and competitive erosion. This article explores the hidden risks of inaction and how future-ready banks are moving now to avoid falling behind.
Compliance shouldn’t block progress. Learn how banks can break the approval loop and design governance that supports safe, smart innovation.
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