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Why Readiness Beats AI in Banking
The five biggest U.S. banks just cleared more than $49 billion in a single quarter, and most coverage treated it as a record profits story. The more important signal sits underneath.
In this Banking Insights episode, Jim Marous digs into what the Q2 2026 megabank earnings mean for banks and credit unions that will never match a Wall Street technology budget, and why that gap is about to matter far less than it used to. The cost of using these tools is collapsing, so owning AI stops being an advantage and readiness becomes the moat.
Two of the largest bank CEOs, Jamie Dimon and BNY's Robin…
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