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Agentic AI for Bank Product Managers

How Bank Product Managers Can Get Started Fast with Agentic AI

There’s a growing gap in banking right now and it’s not subtle. On one side, you have legacy treasury and receivables products still powered by fragmented stacks: optical character recognition (OCR), workflow tools, manual exception handling, and after-the-fact risk checks.  On the other side, you have fintechs rapidly deploying artificial intelligence (AI)-driven capabilities that deliver …

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Agentic AI

Agentic AI Is the Next Competitive Battleground for Bank Treasury Services

Treasury services have long been a cornerstone of commercial banking relationships.  But the way those services are delivered is increasingly out of sync with the expectations of modern business clients. Corporate customers now expect speed, accuracy, and real-time visibility across their financial operations.  What they often receive instead are fragmented processes, delayed insights, and workflows …

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Itemize Named “AP Solution of the Year” in 10th Annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards Program

Prestigious Annual Awards Program Celebrates a Decade of Recognizing the World’s Most Innovative Financial Technology Companies LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market, today announced that Itemize, a leading provider of AI-powered finance automation, been selected …

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The AP Inbox Problem: Why Finance Teams Spend Too Much Time Answering the Same Questions

Talk to almost any accounts payable (AP) professional and you’ll hear the same story: the inbox never stops.  Between processing invoices, resolving exceptions, and supporting the broader procure-to-pay process, AP teams are constantly fielding emails asking about invoice status, approvals, and payments.  What seems like a small task, answering a “quick” question, is a daily …

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The hidden costs of inefficient cash application and how modern teams are finally fixing them

Steve Markle explains why past cash application automation approaches have failed and how only context-aware, adaptive intelligence can deliver reliably and at scale March 13, 2026 Cash application leaders don’t need anyone to tell them their process is under strain.  They feel it every day.  Payments arrive through multiple channels, remittance formats vary wildly, customers submit partial data, …

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The Future of AI in Treasury & Payments: Key Takeaways from Deluxe Exchange 2026

The Deluxe Exchange 2026 conference in Miami brought together financial institutions, fintechs, and technology leaders to explore where AI is taking treasury, receivables, and payments. Samuel Ridderhof, SVP of AI Delivery and Operations at Itemize, attended the event and came back energized by the conversations – particularly the session “Generative AI and Treasury: Redefining the …

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Why Controls that rely on humans don't scale

Why Controls That Rely on Humans Don’t Scale

For years, finance and treasury leaders have been taught a reassuring idea: that human review equals control.  More approvals.  More sign-offs.  More eyes on every transaction. That logic worked when transaction volumes were lower, payment cycles were slower, and fraud was easier to spot.  But the operating environment finance teams face today looks very different. …

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