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Chief among the tips shared at Digital Banking 2018 were: be willing to experiment, seek out partners, rethink cost-cutting and small banks should stop making excuses.

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Banks will need to evolve further and faster to reach consumers in an interconnected, always online world, according to industry leaders.

As customers increasingly research products online, they are coming to know more about a bank’s products than workers. This is a problem.

First Internet Bancorp in Fishers, Ind., which went public in 2013, could also use the capital for acquisitions and other investments.

At American Banker’s Digital Banking conference in Austin, industry leaders wrestled with philosophical questions about artificial intelligence and the rapidly evolving expectations of customers.

Most big banks are launching robo-advisers to compete for a new breed of wealth management customer. The risk is that automated services will disappoint traditional customers.

Mary Kate Loftus spearheaded a $131 million digital initiative to improve the customer experience, deepen relationships and attract more of HSBC’s target consumer segments. She was one of our Digital Banker of the Year finalists for 2018.