Banking Transformed with Jim Marous Why Incremental Banking Improvements No Longer Work
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Feb 10, 2026 Benjamin Conant, Chief Product Officer at Alkami and co-founder of MANTL, is a fintech product leader reshaping digital account opening and unified banking. He discusses why piecemeal upgrades fail against fintechs. He explores turning branches into profit centers, the critical moment after account opening, AI co-pilots, and vendor consolidation for speed and scale.
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Unified Digital Experience Wins
- Competing fintechs build unified digital experiences from the ground up and win market share.
- Benjamin Conant says piecemeal vendor stacks structurally lag these unified challengers.
Treat The Mobile App As A Branch
- Invest in a digital branch as a customer acquisition channel, not just physical branches.
- Benjamin Conant cites QR-enabled flows that increased new account openings 30–40%.
Win Or Lose At The Moment After Opening
- The post-account-opening moment is the highest-leverage interaction to convert customers to engaged users.
- Conant says failures there erode trust because multiple vendors don't integrate the journey.