SAFETY HARBOR, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 14, 2026--
Identifi, the leading independent provider of workflow automation and document management software for banks and credit unions, announced it has been named a finalist in two categories at the 2026 Banking Tech Awards USA: Best AI Solution and Best RegTech Solution.
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Best AI Solution: Document AI
Identifi's Best AI Solution nomination recognizes Document AI, an AI-powered signature-detection capability built into the Document Tracking platform. Traditional tracking systems can confirm that documents were received and stored, but aren’t designed to evaluate whether those documents are legally complete. Institutions that discover that gap during foreclosure proceedings face delays and costs that a review at intake would have prevented.
Document AI scans documents as they enter the repository and identifies missing or misplaced signatures and misaligned paperwork. Each document receives a confidence score, and based on that score and the institution's configured threshold, the system assigns a status of Passed or Exception. Signature issues surface at intake, before they become legal or compliance problems downstream.
Best RegTech Solution: Intelligent Document Management Software
Identifi's Best RegTech Solution nomination recognizes the compliance infrastructure the company has built specifically for U.S. banks and credit unions. The platform unifies document retention, exception tracking, and audit trail management in a single cloud environment. Retention requirements apply automatically at the application and document type levels. Missing records surface before exams begin, and every action generates an audit trail that staff can pull on demand.
Pre-built integrations with COCC, Corelation, Jack Henry, FIS, and more keep document records and core data synchronized in real time, so compliance records reflect what is actually happening in the core rather than what someone manually entered.
"Being shortlisted for two awards in the same year is a reflection of the work the team has put in," said Kaushal Pandya, CEO of Identifi. "We built this platform for community banks and credit unions, and recognition like this tells us we're solving the right problems for them."
About the Banking Tech Awards USA
The Banking Tech Awards USA, hosted by Informa Connect, recognize excellence and innovation in financial technology across the United States. The Excellence in Tech Awards category recognizes software and service providers that deliver comprehensive functionality, modern technology, and measurable improvements for financial institutions.
The 2026 ceremony takes place on May 28 at 583 Park Avenue, New York.
About Identifi
Based in Safety Harbor, Florida, Identifi was founded in 1988 and has grown into a market leader in process automation for financial institutions. For more than 35 years, the company has helped banks and credit unions manage document lifecycles and digitize operational processes in highly regulated environments.
Identifi's platform manages the full document lifecycle with automated workflows, version control, and compliance-driven retention, while digitizing operational processes beyond document storage. The platform connects to the core systems financial institutions already use, supporting workflows tied to real servicing needs, including onboarding, lien releases, audit preparation, retention tracking, and approvals.
Learn more at https://identifi.net/.
Identifi Shortlisted for Best AI Solution and Best RegTech Solution at 2026 Banking Tech Awards USA
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday faced federal lawmakers for the first time since September as he sought to defend a more than 12% proposed cut to his department's budget and dodge arrows from angry Democrats along the way.
In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, kicking off an expected sprint of seven budget hearings he'll attend across congressional committees and subcommittees over the next week, Kennedy emphasized the administration's work to reform dietary guidelines and crack down on waste, fraud and abuse.
Republicans on the committee praised Kennedy as a “breath of fresh air” and asked him to promote his department's recent actions. Democrats, who have been furious over Kennedy's sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, largely had a different agenda.
They needled Kennedy on what they viewed as the Trump administration’s hypocrisy on fraud, demanded to know why he was cutting budgets for various programs and slammed his efforts to pull back vaccine recommendations and messaging, which they said have caused unnecessary deaths.
Kennedy fired back, often raising his voice as he accused the Democrats of misrepresenting his work and past statements.
Here are three standout moments from Thursday's hearing:
One heated exchange early in the hearing came between Kennedy and Rep. Linda Sanchez. The California Democrat decried recent measles outbreaks across the U.S. and asked Kennedy to answer for the fact that under his leadership, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled back public health messaging supporting vaccination.
“As a mother, this horrifies me,” Sanchez said. “Did President Trump approve your decision to end CDC’s pro-vaccine public messaging campaign?”
Kennedy repeatedly refused to answer, saying first he wanted to respond to the “misstatements that you've made” and later praising the Trump administration's record on preventing measles, although protections against the disease have eroded in some parts of the country as vaccination rates have dropped.
“That's not answering my question,” Sanchez said as the two talked over each other.
But Sanchez also got Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist before he entered politics, to acknowledge that a 6-year-old who died of measles last year in West Texas could have potentially been saved with vaccination.
“Do you agree with the majority of doctors that the measles vaccine could have saved that child’s life in Texas?” she asked.
“It's possible, certainly,” Kennedy said.
A fight erupted between Kennedy and Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat from Alabama, when Kennedy vehemently denied making remarks he'd said in 2024.
The comments dated back to when Kennedy was a presidential candidate. On the “High Level Conversations” podcast in 2024, he said, “Psychiatric drugs — which every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence, and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens, you'll actually have to talk to people."
“Have you ever re-parented, or parented, I should say, a Black child?” Sewell asked, as her staff held up a poster featuring an abbreviated version of the quote.
“I don't even know what that phrase means,” Kennedy said. “I'm not going to answer something I didn't say.”
“You're making stuff up,” he later claimed.
A recording of the podcast shows he made the comments during a conversation about free rehabilitation facilities he was proposing opening at the time in rural areas around the country.
HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard said Kennedy before joining the administration was referring to spaces where young people facing alienation, mental health challenges and despair could get re-parented, which she said was a psychotherapy term for “developing the emotional regulation, discipline, boundaries, and self-worth that may not have been established in childhood.”
Kennedy spent most of his life as a Democrat, the scion of one of the nation's most famous political families. Both Republicans and Democrats during the hearing began their remarks by expressing their admiration of Kennedy's relatives, among them former President John F. Kennedy.
But again and again throughout Thursday's hearing, the fraying of bonds between Kennedy and his former party was on full display as spiteful comments were passed back and forth.
The health secretary grew defensive and visibly agitated. He repeatedly criticized Democratic lawmakers for not giving him a word in edgewise.
“They've all shut me up,” Kennedy said at one point. “They give a little speech that they can go and market, you know, for fundraising, and they don't allow me to answer the question.”
On a few rare occasions, the exchanges were civil. One representative, Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, used humor to make that happen.
“I promise to give you easy, comfortable questions if you don't yell at me and hurt my feelings,” she told Kennedy. He promised he wouldn't.
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An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Kennedy's remarks about Black children were made last year. He made the remarks in 2024.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, prepares to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee about his agency's goals and budget, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
