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Jack Ma’s Ant Financial joins Singapore digital banking race

Bank Innovation

Billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial has applied for a digital banking license in Singapore, as China’s largest online financial platform steps up efforts to expand outside the mainland. We look […].

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Digital Banking Leads to Most Bank Branch Closings Since Great Depression

Bank Innovation

Is digital banking killing physical bank branches? How much truth is there to the longtime fear that online banking will replace consumer interaction with bank branch tellers?

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Build, Buy or Transform the Bank?

Chris Skinner

I was recently watching an online poll that asked the best way for a traditional bank to compete with the new digital banks. Should they build a new bank, buy a digital bank competitor, or transform the old bank? appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Virtual Account Numbers Facilitate International Digital Banking

PYMNTS

To serve eCommerce companies’ needs, as transactions continue to shift online, banking needs to go digital, too. As has been profiled in this space previously, virtual IBANs serve as reference numbers issued by banks. That is where digital banking and the virtual IBANs come in,” she said.

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The Race To The Cloud: Will Digital Banks Win?

PYMNTS

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 partnerships are part of a larger plan by Lloyds Bank to enhance its online banking offerings, an initiative that began in 2018. About The Tracker.

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Digital Banking Gaining Scores Of New Users

PYMNTS

Migration to mobile and digital banking ramped up during the pandemic. It’s one of numerous revelations in PYMNTS’ Leveraging The Digital Banking Shift Report , a collaboration with Feedzai , based on a survey of nearly 2,200 U.S. percent of online banking customers using digital channels more. “Our

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Keeping it personal in a digital banking world

Payments Dive

Digital channels are being widely accepted by today's consumers, but with this adoption comes the increase in impersonal transactions through online and mobile banking, drastically impacting the traditional model of building relationships