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Milestone Partners with Candescent to Drive AI Visibility and Growth for Financial Institutions

Milestone announces a strategic partnership with Candescent to drive growth for financial institutions. As these institutions modernize their core systems with Candescent, the next challenge is acquisition and engagement. Discovery is shifting to AI, where decisions are being made.

Milestone provides a unified Digital Experience Platform to build and manage websites, improving discoverability, engagement, and conversion while driving more deposits, loan applications, mortgages, and credit card sign-ups.

The partnership between Candescent and Milestone will connect core banking applications with a native AI website, delivering personalized experiences that help financial institutions acquire more customers and members, and drive growth in new account openings, deposits, loans, and mortgages.

David Ness, VP of Fintech Partnerships at Candescent, said, “We’re excited to partner with Milestone to enhance AI visibility capabilities and drive digital transformation for our clients.”

Anil Aggarwal, CEO of Milestone Inc, added, “The partnership with Candescent allows us to connect core financial systems to growth, helping financial institutions get found, engage, and acquire more customers and members.”

About Candescent

Candescent is defining the era of Intelligent Banking for banks and credit unions. Through its cloud-native Intelligent Banking Platform, Candescent enables institutions to unify data, channels, and real-time intelligence to deliver differentiated experiences, accelerate growth, and deepen customer and member relationships across account opening, consumer and business banking, and digital and branch experiences. Candescent serves more than 1,300 banks and credit unions representing over 30 million registered users. For more information, visit www.candescent.com.

About Milestone

Milestone Inc. is an AI-native Digital Experience Platform that helps brands become discoverable in AI search, deliver personalized digital experiences, and drive higher conversions. The Milestone platform combines a GEO-first CMS, GEO Intelligence for AI search visibility, AI Content Studio for content automation, Schema Manager for structured data, a local listings platform, and conversational AI Agents.  Milestone powers digital growth for leading financial institutions. Milestone is consistently recognized among the top MarTech platforms globally, with recognition from Forrester and G2 and was awarded Best MarTech Platform at the HSMAI Adrian Awards. Learn more at www.milestoneinternet.com.

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