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Does your bank achieve positive operating leverage?

Jeff For Banks

When a significant portion of your cost structure is fixed, then growing revenues should generate positive operating leverage. Clearly, part of this consolidation wave was attributable to FIs striving for economies of scale and positive operating leverage. billion in acquired assets between 2000 and 2007.

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An interview with Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo

Chris Skinner

At university I started a company that went onto Y Combinator in 2007, but I had to leave at that time. You know, GoCardless was great, it helped small, medium, and now large businesses collect money, and made their back office operations more efficient, but it wasn’t something that I used every week.

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German Railway Operator Ditches Mobile Ticketing

PYMNTS

The company introduced mobile ticketing back in 2006 and introduced NFC technology into the system in 2007, but the offering has failed to win over a significant number of consumers.

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Deutsche Money Laundering Probe Accelerated

PYMNTS

Danske Bank was no longer allowed to operate in Estonia after it admitted that $220 billion of questionable money went through a branch there between the years of 2007 and 2015. . Investigators in Germany are now trying to figure out whether the transactions were covered up for a reason, and who’s responsible for doing so.

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Fidor Bank Closing In on U.S. Launch

Bank Innovation

Fidor began in Munich in 2007, and gained traction as a digital bank during and after the financial crisis. Fidor Bank is closer to its U.S. launch, but is still missing a critical piece to complete its services: a bank charter. It has routinely been hailed as one of the most Read More.

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AML Probe Into Swedbank Turns Up $4.8M In Possible Violations

PYMNTS

The investigation reviewed the bank’s activities from 2007 through March 2019, and also looked into who their customers were and which transactions were processed. Swedbank has been linked to the money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank, which said its Estonia branch was used to move $221 billion of suspicious funds between 2007 and 2015.

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Indochino CEO: The Three Things Retailers Must Do To Survive 2020’s Big Digital Shift

PYMNTS

When Indochino launched in 2007, the company wasn’t out to create a new template for the entire retail sector, just a better product with better prices and a better buying experience. We don’t require dozens of people at our store to have an operating four-wall showroom,” CEO Drew Green told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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