Chris Skinner

APRIL 6, 2017

I was listening to a financier talking about FinTech the other day, and claiming that they are all sustaining innovations and not disruptive. They were referring to Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma discussions, where Professor Christensen points to different markets that were destroyed by disruptors.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 4, 2017

billion technology spend in 2016 went to fintech solutions, and given the company’s 2016 results, it seems like money well spent. According to the company’s Annual Report 2016, released today, the bank’s spend on fintech included improving its mobile and digital services. $600 million of JP Morgan Chase’s $9.5

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In a sign of the times in consumer lending, Auto Finance News today announced the launch of Auto Finance Innovation 2016, a new industry forum to explore the fintech revolution and how it is reshaping automotive lending and leasing.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 2, 2016

Eleven companies were awarded slots in the DEMOvation Challenge, which took place yesterday here at Bank Innovation 2016, our annual first-quarter event. SEATTLE – In the end, it came down to biometrics versus blockchain.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mobile banking is the most valuable area of innovation when it comes to consumers, say banks and credit unions—which is probably why that’s the area these institutions are spending the most money on trying to innovate. This is according to Bank Innovation’s annual State of Banking Innovation survey for 2016, Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 6, 2017

Blockchain VC investment plateaued last year, nearing $500 million at yearend 2016 — only a 1% improvement, compared to 2015, according to State of Blockchain 2017 report published by Coindesk today. As the buzz around blockchain fades, so does the venture capital investment in the sector.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Tom Blomfield, Monzo In this age of fintech-rules-it-all, nobody (hopefully) needs an explainer on what a neobank is. specifically has been an epicenter of the mobile-first banks, with Atom Bank, Starling Bank, Tandem Bank and Monzo as the main players. So why single out Monzo? Well, customer retention Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

That happened long ago — just ask Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution built to serve the world’s center of innovation. Silicon Valley is coming to banking? Few bankers can claim better knowledge of what the tech giants are up to. Startups, you say? SVB claims it banks a staggering two-thirds Read More.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out. Fintech funding has grown tougher to raise though total volume, because of a few monster deals, may exceed the previous year. Finovate this year pursued many themes that would have been familiar in Read More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In restaurant technology, cloud kitchens have emerged as a new model driven by the rise of online ordering. And, in digital banking, banks are innovating with their strategies for fraud protection and anti-money laundering (AML). sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Vince Cacace , CEO of Vertebrae, told PYMNTS that AR in 3D has become a high-demand technology for all kinds of products and retailers. “We It started when Founder Stephen Lease was training for a marathon in 2016.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

A host of new speakers joined Bank Innovation Israel 2016 in recent days. Specifically, we’ve added a session entitled “Corporate Innovation Strategies,” which will explore the intersection between fintech and traditional banking. We’ve also revised the agenda to provide a deeper understanding of the current fintech market.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Blockchain—possibly the buzziest of buzzwords in 2016. The world saw the rise of new enterprise blockchains, how the technology might be used to transport gold, to safely move perishable items like pork through a supply chain, and most importantly for those of us in the fintech trenches, we saw banks, Read More.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

TEL AVIV — PayKey, an intriguing Israeli startup that lets banks offer payments on any social media platform — and we mean any — won the demo contest at Bank Innovation Israel 2016 here this week. PayKey beat out 12 other finalists at the DEMOvation Challenge at Bank Innovation Israel, Read More.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

They want to get to the nirvana of new technologies, but are stuck in a spaghetti of old systems. What we are seeing is many new companies launching capabilities built upon the latest internet-enabled technologies. They are very different to banks and are collectively known as FinTech, financial technology start-up companies.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 25, 2017

Last year, one of my most read blog entries was this one: The top ten trends in banking innovation (February 2016). This was a summary of the top trends in banking innovation, and … The post The biggest innovations in retail banking (research) appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

According to a report in Reuters , Goldman Sachs is looking to hire engineers to join a digital innovation program. As Goldman Sachs pushes further into the consumer marketplace, it has been embracing digital technologies. and Germany and has issued $5 billion in consumer loans since launching in October of 2016.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2017

The B2B payments industry is finally beginning to hustle when it comes to technological innovation. This industry is on the cusp of some major innovation, too, as FinTechs roll out services that banks can offer to their own customer clients via APIs. It loves modern technology.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 3, 2017

There are almost 20 million users of mobile banking across the UK in 2016, making 159 logins every second. million customer-to-bank contacts made using web chat in 2016 – 510 every hour. Video chats are also growing in popularity, up 92% during 2016. Video chats are also growing in popularity, up 92% during 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2020

Waze is committed to continuing to help businesses leverage innovative technology to adapt, evolve, and engage with customers,” said Andrew Kandel, Waze U.S. But in June of 2016, Google went ahead and merged this data anyway, effectively destroying anonymity on the internet.”. country manager, in a statement.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

China may have taken the top spot in 2016 fintech funding, but it wasn’t the one doing most of the investing. based Innovate Finance, the top fintech investor for the year Read More. While China claimed nearly $8 billion of the total $17.4 billion invested across the world, according to a report by U.K-based

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JUNE 28, 2016

Yesterday, a Danish bank introduced a bot for simple queries (and soon, transactions) and earlier this month, San Francisco-based startup Dyme, a member of the Spring 2016 Bank Innovation INV class, released a prototype of a Facebook messenger bot whose functionality mirrors that of Dyme’s SMS-based Read More.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2018

UnionPay International, a subsidiary of China UnionPay, has partnered with telecoms company Huawei Technologies to launch mobile payment service Huawei Pay across global markets, beginning with Russia. The move is an expansion of the partnership the companies inked in 2016, when Huawei Pay was first launched.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Roberts, who joined the company in 2016, is stepping back to focus more time on personal interests and passions. and in bank technology nationally. Through organic growth and strategic M&A, Abrigo has grown to be a leading player in the bank technology market, serving over 2,300 financial institutions across the U.S.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The standard is meant to guide how open banking data should be created, shared and used by its owners and those … The post Open Banking consultation (deadline December 23 2016) appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 12, 2016

APIs (application programming interfaces) are fast becoming integral to the banking world, but corporate culture has not yet caught up with the technology, according to data from a survey conducted by the Open Bank Project together with Bank Innovation.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 5, 2017

In this growing and dynamic market, payments have been one of the major drivers of growth and innovation. Exhibit 1: Turkish payments market in numbers … inspiring the world with its innovative solutions Turkey with its rich history, going back to thousands of years ago, is a land that has shaped the history of economics as well.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial recognition technology is the best in the world (yep, even better than Google’s) and is being used for public safety, law enforcement and fraud prevention through cybersecurity.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. In 2016, the IBM Institute for Business Value teamed up with the Economist Intelligence Unit to interview global bankers. Drivers for Operational Innovation.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Every year, Bank Innovation chooses the bank and fintech videos that made us laugh, the ones that made us cry, the ones that made us want to go out and buy baby animals, and of course, the ones that made us go out and better manage our finances (well, we tried.) Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Case in point: as Minna Technologies has noted, the average European consumes has 11 subscriptions in place — and the average household has 21 subscriptions. Founded in 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their bank’s app.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Venture capitalists were not buying it last year. Venture capital-backed fintech companies in the U.S. saw a drop in both deals and funding volume last year. Fintechs raised $5.5 billion across 422 deals, compared to $7.7 billion (and 459 deals) in 2015 – a 29% drop, according to the Global Fintech Read More.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 22, 2017

I blogged a year ago about TechFin, the incumbents’ view of applying technology to existing banking services, versus FinTech which seeks to transform the financial system. TechFin is to rebuild the system with technology. In November 2016, Ant partnered with Thailand’s Ascend Money, which also runs a digital wallet service.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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