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Ian Drysdale is CEO of One Inc. since 2021. Named one of the top CEOs in insurtech in 2025. Ian brings over 30 years of senior leadership experience from major payments platforms, including Zelis, Elavon, and WorldPay.
Before joining One Inc, Ian was executive in residence at Great Hill Partners, focused on investments and advisory in the financial technology sector. He holds a BA from Bishop's University in Canada and an MBA in International Business from Florida Atlantic University.
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Brendan Coughlin, who is widely viewed as the heir apparent to Citizens Financial Group CEO Bruce Van Saun, will now oversee all of the regional bank's lines of businesses.
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Sean Scott of U.S. Bank discusses what his team did to win their Innovation of the Year award for their collaboration with Edward Jones, in conversation with American Banker's Chana Schoenberger.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is preparing to request information from credit-card issuers about their late fees. The renewed interest in late fees is a surprise, given the agency last year sided with the banking industry to kill a Biden-era rule that would have dropped the charges from $32 to $8.
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Kristin Milchanowski shared some of the ways her team is working toward a return on AI and making models more trustworthy at American Banker's Digital Banking Conference.
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The Most Innovative People in Finance honoree discusses why consumers and businesses only care that their payments get to the right place at the right time, and how banks can fix this problem.
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Singapore, Singapore, July 9th, 2026, FinanceWire
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In the year of the country's 250th anniversary celebrations, it's worth looking back at the long road the U.S. dollar took to global dominance, and the lessons we can learn from it.
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Polymarket's process for divining "the truth," the heart of its entire operating model, is itself open to manipulation, a new lawsuit alleges.
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Some of the country's largest banks are reportedly considering buying a Fiserv-owned debit card network as a workaround to interchange caps instituted by the Durbin Amendment. It's an idea that looks good on paper, but could be harder to actually implement.
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