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Cornerstone Advisors

Cornerstone Advisors is a research and consulting firm focused on banking and credit union technology, strategy, and performance benchmarking.

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Paxos Labs' PaxGy leases its gold reserves to institutions to grow holders' ounces

Paxos Labs launched PaxGy, a token built on the $2 billion PAXG that lends its gold to institutional borrowers so holdings grow in ounces. The extra metal comes from borrowers, so a holder takes on their credit risk as well as the gold price PAXG tracks.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence40
investOne report1 publisher

Moov pushes community bank P2P onto debit cards through Visa Direct and Mastercard Move

Moov Money sends transfers to a recipient's existing debit card through Jack Henry's Banno platform and the card networks' push rails. Zelle already integrates with more than 2,300 institutions and moved more than $1.2 trillion last year.

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption15
Hype gap+25
Incentives76
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

Walmart's Apple Pay reversal moves the card fight inside the phone wallet

American Banker reports that Walmart, the biggest wallet holdout until now, is supporting Apple Pay. Its sources put the cost on issuers whose cards are not the default credential in a customer's phone.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption45
Hype gap+20
Incentives76
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

Credit unions call AI model risk critical at a third the national-bank rate

Eighteen percent of credit unions rate AI model risk a critical or high threat against 62% of national banks, yet 71% say they are not prepared, within two points of the national banks' 73%, a pattern that points to a difference in belief, not in staffing.

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption28
Hype gap+12
Incentives58
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

SBA's proposed size standards pour 114,500 firms into a fixed $182 billion set-aside pool

Lenders see bigger tickets on better-established credits, while the contractors already inside see 114,500 new bidders competing for a reserved share of federal spending that the rule does not enlarge.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption10
Hype gap+12
Incentives75
Confidence45
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Reg E timelines push banks to pay disputes before they can investigate them

A vendor-commissioned survey of more than 400 bank and credit union executives describes losses arriving through the dispute queue rather than the login screen. How much of the rise is new customer behaviour is not established.

Publishers:forbes.com

Reality

Evidence33
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+36
Incentives90
Confidence56