Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—With mobile banking services offered at the majority of financial institutions, innovating the digital space is becoming more important in the fintech ecosystem, especially for smaller players like regional banks or credit unions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Banks do not always have the budgets or resources to craft cutting-edge online and mobile experiences, although they can no longer afford to put off digital transformations. The number of online banking customers is growing worldwide, and FIs’ consumers are coming to expect seamless digital experiences as a result.

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APRIL 23, 2020

More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. The bank is working with technology giants Google and Microsoft to create new cloud-based tools that will use their cloud computing software.

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APRIL 28, 2020

These shifts have made digital banking and debit transactions more important than ever. The Next-Gen Debit Tracker® explores how the COVID-19 outbreak is impacting commerce and banking, as well as accelerating uptake of digital services and payment tools. Pandemic Puts Digital Banking in the Spotlight.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

One common theme amid bank earnings — beyond lofty trading revenues gleaned from Wall Street — has been the increased uptake of mobile banking. Stats from banks, pretty much across the board, have given evidence that consumers have been pivoting to their mobile devices to attend to their everyday financial needs.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2018

According to Malauzai Software, that’s the term used for vendors that “scrape” digital banking apps on the internet to gather data and then provide that data to fintechs. Scrapegators, what’s that? In other words, they are aggregators.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Make that leather wallet a mobile one, wielded on smartphones. As we noted in this space earlier in the summer, using apps to bank is markedly being embraced by the younger generation. As spotlighted in the Digital Banking Tracker , the global digital banking market is slated to grow by 16 percent, compounded annually.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

As bank-FinTech collaborations evolve, more traditional financial institutions (FIs) are not only implementing services and technologies developed by FinTech partners, but they’re also lending their own expertise to augment FinTech solutions. Airwallex Taps Deutsche Bank. In another bank-FinTech tie-up, J.P.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Digital banking took off this year as pandemic lockdowns and disrupted routines led people to seek better, faster, more personalized forms of banking. There are two notable changes atop this new Provider Ranking of Digital Banking Apps. 4, pushing challenger bank Monzo to No. The Top 10. Still at No.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 12, 2018

BNP Paribas Fortis will integrate Tink’s Aggregation, Personal Finance Management (PFM) and Payment Initiation technology into its mobile banking applications. The first step will be to roll out Tink to BNP's mobile-first digital bank, Hello.Read More.

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Payments Dive

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Traditional banks in the U.S. and Europe are picking up the transition to digital banking as they face heightened competition from fintech startups and consumers become more and more comfortable with mobile apps and online sites for routine functions.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 29, 2018

A lot happened in the digital banking world this month, from major events in the payments worlds like PayPal acquiring iZettle for $2.2 Here are some of the important trends that Bank Innovation pulled out of the fintech chatter […].

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2017

Community banks can also play the fintech game. BankMobile — the digital bank, formerly a division of Customers Bancorp Inc. — was acquired by Flagship, a Florida-based community bank, for $175 million. “We We are no longer a partner or a division of […].

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APRIL 10, 2019

With more consumers than ever interested in fulfilling all their financial needs on mobile, both legacy banks and FinTech firms are focusing on creating digital-only banking services, designed to catch and keep customers using their smartphones to bank. Around the Digital Banking World.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 10, 2018

Long before PSD2 arrived ( the European regulation that requires banks to open their platforms to fintechs), the U.K. had already established itself as a hub in Europe for digital banks like Revolut, Monzo etc. And indeed, these digital banks are growing in popularity, at least when it comes to people knowing they exist.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Unlike other FinTech startups, Kuda was granted a banking license from the Nigerian Central Bank. Kuda is the first digital-only bank in Nigeria with a standalone license. We’re not a mobile wallet or simply a mobile app piggybacking on an existing bank,” noted Kuda Co-founder Babs Ogundeyi.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

As the financial services space focuses on digitizing offerings for their small business customers, much of these efforts are targeting online banking portals accessed via desktop. Today, he explained, small businesses often do the bare minimum to manage finances, despite the rise in FinTech platforms and products available to them.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Digital banks , for one, are teaming up with technology providers to accelerate settlement times for payments collected at the point-of-sale (POS). Legacy banks are similarly at work, with one major FI seeking to beat out FinTech competition by offering same-day access to credit card deposits.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The pandemic is reshaping banking. As more banking has shifted online, an increasing amount of that online activity is occurring across mobile conduits. Generationally, we’re seeing individuals who maybe weren’t accessing their card accounts or their banking accounts on a regular basis through digital,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And with a nod toward what might be in the crosshairs, Dimon said that acquisitions would be somewhere within financial services and technology, and decidedly not in traditional banking (read: checking and deposits). Melding financial services and technology yields, of course, FinTech. Active mobile customers were up 12 percent to 37.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Chime , a mobile-based startup delivering banking services that has gained strength during the pandemic, is here to stay, according to CEO Chris Britt , CNBC reports. There’s an increasing willingness to provide and manage your finances through a mobile app. Chime’s transaction volume has more than tripled this year.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - Before social media platform Facebook became a popular channel for digital banks to offer banking features to its customers, let’s not forget that FB was first and foremost an important advertising tool for banks to reach a younger audience. Take British challenger bank Starling Bank, for example.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. Latency Advantages.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

FinTech LendingClub is purchasing Radius Bancorp for $185 million in cash and stock, according to a report by CNBC. The bank is one of a few smaller lenders that has teamed up with FinTechs who need services only an FDIC-regulated institution can provide. This is the first time a FinTech has purchased an actual bank.

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JULY 24, 2020

London startup mobile bank Revolut Ltd. Since then, the financial technology (FinTech) company has expanded its portfolio to also offer business banking. Revolut is an app-based consumer bank account that allows customers to send and receive money and use built-in budgeting tools.

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

Emefiele said that three licenses have been issued by the central bank for “shared-agent” and payment-banks. Africa’s most populous country — roughly 200 million people — is behind in offering mobile banking compared to the rest of Africa. Only one mobile banking license has been issued this year.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Virtual Cards And Mobile Technology. The pandemic's influence on the virtualization of the commercial card has been evident for TravelBank, too, with Chung telling PYMNTS that the ability for virtual cards to support contactless payments via mobile wallets is driving the future of business travel and spend.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Digital transformation is essential for financial institutions’ (FIs) success, but what such a transformation entails has shifted in recent years. Ensuring that customers can access fast and secure services is critical and one of the many reasons legacy and challenger banks alike are shifting how they view many processes.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 16, 2017

At the conferences, many a keynote would stand up and say technologies like data aggregation are going to disintermediate the banks from the markets. Well, the aggregators have been out there for 20 years and the banks still have strong client presence in mobile apps, so that was a bit of an over statement, wasn’t it?

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2018

PREMIUM -- Digital payments are on the rise across the globe. the world’s largest economy, the use of mobile payments has increased significantly in the past two years. Add to that mix the prevalence of e-commerce and, the growing popularity of P2P apps, such as Venmo and Zelle, as well as digital banking. […].

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

As online banking becomes more popular, countries are grappling with cybersecurity. In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

Belgium, which is home to many European Union (EU) institutions, is also a burgeoning FinTech hub. The country has the fifth-highest number of FinTech deals in Europe, according to an analysis from Belgium-based European FinTech platform B-Hive. ” FinTech firm recovr is among the startups based in Belgium.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

To be the bank, buy the bank. Earlier this week, a FinTech took the leap into the full spectrum of financial services, perhaps paving the way for future mashups. The $185 cash and stock deal would bring an online bank with $1.4 The $185 cash and stock deal would bring an online bank with $1.4

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As evidence that sandboxes are ever-increasingly a global phenomenon, Kuwait’s central bank put forth guidelines this week that are geared toward companies seeking to meld financial technology (FinTech) and financial services (FinServ). As previously reported, Saudi Arabia has trained sights on FinTech as well, specifically in Riyadh.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Tracker also examines how mobile and instant disbursement tools could be essential to making sure these individuals are still able to participate and transact within the digital banking world. Another FDIC report found that 31 percent of American consumers are now using peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile wallet apps, for example.

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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. Banks are never going to become obsolete,” VB said, “but they could end up becoming stored value accounts. Banking services could be decoupled from banks.”.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 20, 2024

With the latest scandal entangling fintech middleman Synapse and its partner banks, it wouldn’t be surprising for more bankers to embrace “boring” over “daring,” with executives fearing what could go wrong with banking-as-a-service partnerships or, more broadly, with their fintech pairings. Even fintech founders say so.

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