Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A new report released today by Roubini ThoughtLab holds quite a few insights about the future of wealth management, the future of fintech, and the future of technology, most notably the conclusion that financial institutions with strong brand awareness will be the last ones standing by 2021–not fintechs.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 10, 2025

Few metrics in the banking and fintech arena are as hard to reliably quantify as this one. Unknown brands have to pay more to build credibility and get customers over the finish line. fintechs) dumping venture capital money, and regulatory changes are all external forces marketers cant control but still impact the cost of acquisition.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 18, 2018

INV Fintech, this site’s sister accelerator, announced today a comprehensive rebrand and the launch of an online community. INV’s brand has been completely reimagined with a new logo, color scheme, and website layout that realigns the brand with its profound passion for innovation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Banks and credit unions are certainly not on their way out, even as they face more pressure from challenger banks, FinTechs and Big Tech in the coming decade. The tension between FinTechs and FIs is real, as PYMNTS data shows. Banks are never going to become obsolete,” VB said, “but they could end up becoming stored value accounts.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

"Unlike solutions on the market today that only offer a handful of ERP integrations and require a manual intervention to complete a payment, RegalPay One offers a bank-branded platform that connects directly to their corporate customers' ERP system," Ed Wertzberger , vice president of solution delivery for Regal Software, said in the announcement.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Peer-to-peer payments network Zelle, which has been active in elevating its brand to […]. While these efforts highlight financial planning and education, they also serve an important business objective, which is to increase user adoption and engagement on platforms.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The relationship between FinTechs and banks has been complicated, with relatively young upstarts competing with established financial institutions in a new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. But, in fact, banks and FinTechs may make for the perfect marriage, as each works to leverage their unique strengths and opportunities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company offers FDIC-insured bank accounts and a Visa -branded payment cards for teens (aged 13-18) with budgeting features and other financial education tools built in. On one hand, Step is looking to create a brand that's young, modern, hip and cool such that it appeals to those 13- to 18-year-old users. Creating A Balance.

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Alex Jimenez

DECEMBER 17, 2024

2024 proved to be a year where banking and fintech continued to mesh into a single industry. Collaboration Over Competition: Banks and Fintech Joining Forces This year, Ive emphasized how the relationship between fintech and banks has evolved from rivalry to collaboration. Whats Next? The growth of embedded finance.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 15, 2017

Fintech accelerators have become an integral part of a startup’s lifespan, despite some of the recent, not-so optimistic sentiments. From giants like Techstars and Barclays, to small, community-based programs, accelerators or incubators now cover all the imaginable fintech sectors, promising to give your brand-new company a jump-start.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As legal cannabis spreads, the industry is a big opportunity for FinTech, as industry players struggle to manage intense compliance requirements and limited access to traditional financial services. INDUS said it will move forward with the new capital to focus on expansion and expand its staff.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

FinTech firms, however, are looking to lessen that work through their offerings: Modo , in one case, has a Modal component to its /Checkout product. “We The company found that larger organizations are embracing service providers — and there’s a firm that, for example, does track and trace for major retail brands.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While consumer onboarding for banks and FinTechs has seen immense innovation in recent years, the same cannot be said for business customers, according to Kyle Mack, CEO of Middesk. 8), the company announced that it has joined Visa's Fintech Fast Track Program to help emerging FinTechs optimize their own business identity strategies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala , founder and CEO of FinTech Oyster , said online financial platforms, powered by open banking, can serve as alternatives for business banking in a country where business banking seems an afterthought. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”. Widening Debit’s Acceptance.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2020

Gartner’s Digital IQ Index for 2019 surveyed 80 banking and financial brands, including national banks, regional banks, online banks and fintech startups. It examined 1,200 data […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2020

Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap video series, for the week ending Friday, January 31, 2019. In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: Venmo’s path to profitability; Berlin-based digital bank N26’s U.S. expansion; and Why a digital bank in Texas is awarding miles instead of interest.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 16, 2022

As a slew of fintechs try to capture small business customers, Circular Board’s Hello Alice brand is targeting entrepreneurs from marginalized backgrounds.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

FIS' purchase of Worldpay in 2019 required Ellyn Raftery, the company's chief marketing and communication's officer, to reshape its brand to showcase the strengths of both companies — all while a major global pandemic hastened her timeline.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Separately, in other funding news, AppDetex , which focuses on risk protection tied to intellectual property and brand infringement, said this past week that it has raised $10 million in Series B equity financing to expand its sales and marketing efforts and to fund product development.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

FinTech firms will travel the world and describe what they are up to using brand-new terms that are different or exciting. FinTechs have created some repeated descriptions that might be useful to a broader audience. People might draw comparisons in response — wait a second, isn’t this kind of like? —

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Collaboration and not competition, Visa’s Senior Vice President, Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos told Karen Webster in a discussion on the recent advancements and updates to Visa’s Fast Track program , is quite evident — particularly when one observes that a number of Visa’s partners are many that, on paper, might appear to be competitors.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech firm MatchMove has struck a deal to acquire a “strategic stake” in eCommerce solutions company Shopmatic, according to reports. MatchMove said LightSpeed is a “powerful, out-of-the-box solution, which enables you to launch your own branded payments platform within minutes.”.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

2020 is the wildest downward ride in the market since 1929, which, one would think, is taking its toll on the fintech ecosystem serving banks and credit unions. And the industry’s two largest fintech providers, FIS and Fiserv, reported organic revenue declines largely due to economic impact to the payments market. It’s one big sandbox.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Social shopping is the newest hot trend fueled by the pandemic, as new startups are emerging and established brands such as Macy’s are catching up to capture this area. In retail technology, Yotpo is helping brands capture the digital shift by making a compressed marketing stack for online shopping.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The country otherwise has sophisticated online banking products and an emerging FinTech sector. Yotpo, which works in bringing outreach, analytics and reviews to direct-to-consumers (D2C) brands, is pushing SMS as an alternative to email, and clients have reported positive returns on investments and higher engagement rates from texts.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 19, 2019

A year ago I blogged about invisible banking and that I have some issues with it, namely that the bank brand disappears and the customer finds it too easy to spend without thinking.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 19, 2019

A year ago I blogged about invisible banking and that I have some issues with it, namely that the bank brand disappears and the customer finds it too easy to spend without thinking.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

T-Mobile executives had to allocate time and resources to protecting the brand. This is particularly true as open banking initiatives encourage bank collaboration with third-party FinTech firms and facilitate the movement of data between platforms. Rather, a hack at its credit reporting vendor Experian led to the data breach.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

This week’s look at the latest open banking efforts and bank-FinTech collaborations reveals small business lending to be an emerging bright-spot in this field. Though collaborating with FinTechs is a popular way for banks to augment their product offering, Banco Santander has opted for the M&A route to expand its trade finance operations.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. of bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in digital account opening. The benefits of fintechs. By Elizabeth Judd. Quick Stat.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The report noted that banking systems embedded on mobile phones are popular in emerging markets, including in China, India and Kenya , driven in part by private-sector FinTechs. “Mobile phones will become banks.”. It’s not clear whether a state system in Mexico will be easy to use.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Southeast Asia, FinTech InstaReM recently released a new platform of its own. The platform, which relies on InstaReM’s existing global digital ecosystem that supports payments and remittances, enables companies to more easily issue branded cards without having to obtain multiple licenses. About the Smarter Payments.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I recently did an interview with my American friend Jim Marous over on The Financial Brand. It’s a good interview so I thought I would post my answers here. Feel free to comment!

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

FinTechs have had to take on a leadership role to embracing an imbedded payments experience. That led one FinTech, Zoop , to step onto the market with a FinTech- and Payments-as-a-Service business model. As a result, it's the FinTech community that has taken the lead in driving Brazil's and Latin America's open banking journeys.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

For Walmart, FinTechs are in sight — but where to from here? As reported , Walmart is working with Ribbit Capital to create an as-yet unnamed FinTech that would, the companies said on Monday (Jan. The deal promotes fractional ownership of stock (as a form of loyalty rewards) through everyday spending across a range of brands.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Finding Friendly Ground With FinTech Firms. That is a big revelation — fundamentally, it means that when people are planning their future, saving for retirement or planning a loan for a home, they are willing to trust that to a FinTech simply because of ease of use and access,” she said.

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