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Are you prepared to embrace change, take risks and disrupt yourself in response to the digital disruption in banking? If not, this podcast is for you. Hosted by top 5 banking and fintech influencer, Jim Marous, Banking Transformed highlights the leadership and cultural challenges facing the banking industry. Featuring interviews with some of the top minds in business, this podcast explores how financial institutions can prepare for the future of banking.
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- 3 days ago9 min
How Nubank Could Reprice U.S. Deposits
Nubank can change the economics of deposits that it has never won. The Brazilian digital bank has conditional approval for a U.S. national bank charter and plans to open by 2027, and most coverage is asking whether it can take a meaningful share of the market from American institutions. Jim Marous gives the pragmatic take: Share is the wrong thing to watch. Nubank built more than 130 million customer relationships in Latin America by leading with credit and earning the deposits afterward, in markets where many people had kept their savings at home rather than trust a bank. Its global platform now runs at an efficiency ratio below 20%, compared with a U.S. norm near 60%. That gap is the story. It lets Nubank pay depositors more than a typical U.S. bank or credit union can, and still earn a stronger margin, using deposit rates as an acquisition channel the way it did with Cuenta Nu in Mexico, where the yield went from 9% to 15% and pulled in $3.8 billion in 18 months. The exposure for American institutions shows up as margin, not attrition. Nubank does not have to reprice every deposit in the country. It only has to reset the price of the next dollar you need to keep or replace, and with a national average savings-account rate under half a percent against the best rates near ten times that, your customers are already comparing. Jim Marous is co-publisher of The Financial Brand and host of the Banking Transformed podcast. This Banking Insights episode covers what Nubank built in Brazil, why Chime’s track record shortens Nubank’s path, the one fair-lending question that could slow its rollout, and three moves banks and credit unions should make before someone else sets their deposit floor. Subscribe to Banking Transformed for new episodes multiple times each week.
- 4 days ago40 min
Banks Have More Data But Still Can't Get Personal
Banks and credit unions have never known more about their customers. So why does so much of banking still feel impersonal? In this episode, David Acevedo, Vice President at Abrigo, joins Jim Marous to examine the gap between what an institution knows about a customer and what it actually does about it. They get into why more customer data has not led to better personal service, what separates the banks and credit unions that build lasting relationships from those that do not, and how to move from customer data to customer action at the front line. The conversation also covers the real advantage community banks and credit unions hold over the largest institutions, where AI strengthens the human relationship instead of replacing it, the most common and most expensive mistakes banks make when they try to get closer to their customers, and the one move David would tell any executive to make first. Hosted by Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and owner of the Digital Banking Report. New episodes of Banking Transformed are published multiple times each week. Subscribe so you never miss one.
- 5 days ago9 min
YouTube: Banking's New Front Door
We can have all the trust in the world, but still lose the moment. Consumers aren’t asking many of their first financial questions in a bank branch anymore. They’re asking them on YouTube, social media, Reddit, podcasts, and increasingly through AI. New eMarketer research shows nearly 40% of adults under 45 now research banking products on social platforms, compared with about 10% of adults over 45. Financial institutions remain among the most trusted sources of financial guidance, yet many are missing from the platforms where consumers begin researching mortgages, savings accounts, investing, debt, budgeting, and everyday financial decisions. In this Banking Insights episode, Jim Marous explains why YouTube has become banking’s new front door, why attention now precedes trust, and how banks and credit unions can combine credibility with engaging financial education to reach consumers before someone else shapes the conversation. Drawing on new consumer research and his own experience transforming his YouTube strategy, Jim explains why YouTube rewards watch time, why Google and AI increasingly surface clear, credible content, and how financial institutions can build discoverable expertise without becoming social media influencers. An audit of 150 financial videos with more than 100,000 views each found three quarters of the people giving advice never stated a credential. If banks and credit unions want to become the primary financial relationship, they need to be present where the first financial question is asked. Hosted by Jim Marous, internationally recognized banking strategist, co-publisher of The Financial Brand, owner of the Digital Banking Report, and host of the Banking Transformed podcast.
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Why Readiness Beats AI in Banking
The five biggest U.S. banks just cleared more than $49 billion in a single quarter, and most coverage treated it as a record profits story. The more important signal sits underneath. In this Banking Insights episode, Jim Marous digs into what the Q2 2026 megabank earnings mean for banks and credit unions that will never match a Wall Street technology budget, and why that gap is about to matter far less than it used to. The cost of using these tools is collapsing, so owning AI stops being an advantage and readiness becomes the moat. Two of the largest bank CEOs, Jamie Dimon and BNY's Robin Vince, said as much on their calls, from two directions. The institutions that build the inner workings now, clean data, fixed processes, clear ownership, and the guardrails set in advance, will absorb each new tool faster than the last. The catch is that the window rewards the few willing to move before it feels safe.
- 1 weeks ago45 min
Why BofA Is Betting on Branches
What if the biggest myth in banking is that customers don’t need branches anymore? Because every time Bank of America opens a new financial center, digital sales in that market jump by 50 percent. Physical presence isn’t competing with digital — it’s accelerating it. Now, Bank of America is putting $750 million behind a bet the rest of the industry walked away from too soon, opening 150 new financial centers across 60 markets by 2027 at more than $5 million per location. Bold? Yes. Contradictory? Maybe. But the timing suggests something deeper: after shrinking from 6,000 branches to about 3,700, they now believe the future isn’t fewer branches… it’s smarter ones. These next-generation centers aren’t transaction factories. They’re advisory hubs staffed by 12,000 relationship bankers, designed to anchor communities and handle the conversations digital can’t — at least not yet. My guest on the Banking Transformed podcast, Will Smayda, leads this transformation. He’ll explain why Bank of America is expanding while others retreat and what these new financial centers reveal about how clients actually want to bank. So, here’s the question we all need to wrestle with: Is this the future of the branch — or the most expensive contradiction in banking?
- 1 weeks ago10 min
Understanding the New Fintech Charter Race
A charter can take your products. It can't take your relationships — unless you let it. In the first half of 2026, two dozen companies lined up to become banks, nearly matching last year's total, but almost none of these filings mean the same thing. In this Banking Insights episode, Jim Marous hands financial institutions a decoder ring: the type of charter a company chooses tells you exactly which part of the business it's coming for, from stablecoin settlement to the whole customer relationship to the point of purchase. Using Circle, Nubank, Klarna, and Mission Lane as illustrations, Jim explains why the regulatory door swung open, why the charter is the least valuable thing these companies are actually buying, and the three moves every bank and credit union must make now to remain the primary financial institution a charter can never grant. Hosted by Jim Marous. Subscribe to Banking Transformed for new episodes multiple times each week.
- 2 weeks ago10 min
Winning the New War for Banking Primacy
Your dashboard says you are their primary bank. You may only be their vault. More than half of the new checking accounts opened today are additional accounts. The direct deposit lands with you. The relationship lives somewhere else. Primacy no longer begins with the transaction. It begins earlier, at the moment a customer asks their first financial question. Last year, 10% of Americans took that question to an AI. This year it is 55%, and 77% among Gen Z. Those conversations are not happening with their bank, even though consumers still trust their financial institution far more than they trust an AI with their money. Jim Marous covers the four questions customers are already asking, and how banks and credit unions can answer them first: instant access to cash with no application and no credit bureau, a payday message that says what is safe to spend, subscription alerts with a one-tap cancel, and an open-ended question bar with a human at the bottom of every answer. Featuring Huntington, Regions, Bank of America and Erica, Fifth Third, and the implementation gap that keeps good ideas from ever reaching a customer.
- 2 weeks ago49 min
2026 Mid-Year Review with Ron Shevlin
What actually mattered in banking during the first half of 2026 — and what was just noise? Jim Marous welcomes Ron Shevlin, Chief Research Officer at Cornerstone Advisors, back to Banking Transformed for a mid-year review that cuts through the hype. The conversation covers why agentic AI is both overweighted and underweighted by banks and credit unions; Ron Shevlin’s three-part framework for AI’s impact, and the pivotal question of how work gets done versus who does the work; the stablecoin and tokenized-deposit debate, and the evolving role of core providers including Fiserv, FIS, and Jack Henry. They also discuss bank and credit union consolidation driven by capabilities and digital maturity rather than geography, and the fintechs Ron is watching most closely — SoFi, Robinhood, and Coinbase. At the heart of the episode is the decline of primacy: why a single “primary bank” no longer exists for consumers under 40, and why direct deposit no longer signals a growing relationship. The episode closes with each guest’s top priority for the second half of 2026. Ron Shevlin publishes the Fintech Snark Tank on Substack (ronshevlin.substack.com) and LinkedIn. Hosted by Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and Owner and Publisher of the Digital Banking Report.
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