Payments Dive
MAY 4, 2018
Real-time payments infrastructure officially arrived in the U.S. with the launch of The Clearing House RTP system in November. Will the technology ultimately prove to be, as predicted, "one of the most important payment transformation efforts in our industry"?
Chris Skinner
MAY 3, 2018
I’ve been watching the rollercoaster ride of cryptocurrencies very carefully for the last year, and it only struck me today that these are not currencies … yet. Apart from a few novelty vendors and merchants who put bitcoin on their websites, I don’t see many others accepting ether or XRP, … The post Cryptocurrencies are not currencies appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.
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Bank Innovation
APRIL 30, 2018
EXCLUSIVE— As open banking sweeps through Europe with the launch of PSD2, GDPR, and other regulations focused on transparency, North American financial institutions might want to consider looking to blockchain or artificial intelligence for their own compliance challenges. This is according to Richard Arundel, general manager, North America for financial technology provider Currencycloud, who noted […].
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2018
From mom-and-pop retail shops to the world’s largest companies, nearly every business is looking to offer the latest technology to its consumers. For many in the financial services world, though, implementing innovations is easier said than done. So, what’s standing in the way of FIs, the largest of which come to the table armed with big budgets and endless resources?
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Payments Dive
MAY 1, 2018
Nav Kullar, marketing manager for NCR Payments, cites a recent Visa study about this trend with consumers traveling abroad.
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Bank Innovation
APRIL 30, 2018
EXCLUSIVE- The genesis of Bill.com, a cloud-based cash flow management software for SMBs, came to René Lacerte when he was still leading his digital payroll services company PayCycle. “Payroll and B2B payments is a huge painpoint for small and medium sized businesses,” Lacerte told Bank Innovation. “The idea behind creating a Bill.com was to address […].
PYMNTS
APRIL 30, 2018
Benjamin Franklin is best remembered as a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and a prolific inventor who created the lightning rod after flying a kite with a key on it in a thunderstorm. A little known fact, perhaps, is that Franklin is credited with inventing two things that almost every person has used — or will — at some point in their lifetime: swimming fins and bifocals.
Payments Dive
MAY 3, 2018
It's time for a look back at last month's most-read content on the site.
Chris Skinner
APRIL 30, 2018
Everywhere around the world, I find politicians and bankers in dodgy practices. It’s because power and money go together. We’ve seen this clearly in EU and USA with LIBOR, CDOs, PPI, bribes, parties, prostitutes and more, and I was reminded of it when seeing a presentation the other day by … The post Banks charged dead people fees for a decade appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.
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Treasury teams at community banks face an ongoing challenge of delivering frictionless customer experiences as they support treasury products – especially RDC. This infographic focuses on the efficiencies community banks gain when partnering with a proven managed services provider. You’ll see the advantages you can gain when a managed services partner leverages online tools, skilled customer and technical support personnel, and fulfillment and logistics capabilities to streamline RDC fulfillment
Bank Innovation
MAY 2, 2018
Digital mortgages will be a major trend for banks in 2018. In the first quarter alone, Bank of America and SunTrust Banks both unveiled their digital mortgage platforms, with SunTrust being the most recent. “If you look at the housing industry, it has always been a slow adopter of change back to the days of Frannie […].
PYMNTS
MAY 1, 2018
In some sense, B2B eCommerce offerings have had a customer base for longer than they’ve actually had their own hub on Amazon, Martin Rohde, head of commercial customers for Amazon Business, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. First founded about three years ago in 2015, Amazon Business – the firm’s B2B eCommerce marketplace – has grown up quickly.
Bobsguide
MAY 3, 2018
Whether you’re the chief information security officer (CISO) of a large enterprise with offices across the globe or the IT manager of a small enterprise, if you had a big budget, you would spend it on building and maintaining a security operations centre (SOC) to monitor every risk your.
Chris Skinner
APRIL 30, 2018
I just got a report from J Walter Thompson on the future of money and there’s some interesting facts and stats. Here are my headlines: 76% of millennials are looking for new forms of banking 40% of people in their twenties have downloaded a money management app 80% of millennials … The post The future of money (research report) appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.
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Amid market uncertainty, banks and credit unions are faced with critical decisions about the future of their commercial lending. With fluctuating interest rates and rising competition from non-bank lenders, it's critical to allocate your 2025 budget strategically to optimize lending operations. Our Budget Playbook for Commercial Lenders delivers key strategies to help you navigate these challenges, ensuring your institution is well-positioned for the coming year.
Bank Innovation
MAY 3, 2018
The ways businesses, consumers, and even banks make payments are changing, as technologies like realtime payments and APIs make it easier to send money across the globe. But one technology seems curiously absent from recent payment innovation, and that’s blockchain. “We think blockchain technology will streamline payments, but in practice there are very few open […].
PYMNTS
MAY 1, 2018
It’s like the band is back together. Thirty-three years ago, Tom Thimot, the newly appointed CEO of Socure , collaborated with founder Sunil Madhu on a business specializing in physical identity verification and access solutions: Netegrity, which was ultimately sold in 2005 to CA Technologies for $430 million. From there, Madhu worked for Cisco and founded Hopskoch and Socure, while Thimot built a number of businesses that straddled data and security in some way.
Bobsguide
MAY 1, 2018
The introduction of the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) in Europe at the beginning of 2018 was the latest step on the region’s journey towards competitively fair, digital banking. With the introduction of the legislation, incumbent banks are now legally obliged to open their customer data.
Chris Skinner
MAY 2, 2018
My friend Emmanuel Daniel, founder and Chairman of The Asian Banker, ran an interesting video dialogue recently, in a near hour long interview with Chng Sok Hui, chief financial officer of DBS. The whole video, audio and transcript of the interview can be found over here, but I liked this … The post Challenging DBS: how do you measure digital innovation?
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Have you ever felt the pain and loss of a client suddenly going silent, leaving you questioning everything? Ghosting can cause heartbreak; in business, it drains resources, and emotionally, it shatters your confidence. A modern credit card program can give you the tools to deliver the digital-first experiences your customer’s demand. Our eBook, “5 Signs Your Credit Card Offering Needs an Upgrade,” will help you identify key indicators that your current card platform may be holding you back and w
Bank Innovation
MAY 2, 2018
Square launched a rewards program for its Cash card yesterday called Cash Boost. Around noon Eastern time the company tweeted it would begin rolling the service out. By 5 PM it announced it had rolled out the service to 100% of its customers. This update, assuming it happened during that timespan, did not require an […].
PYMNTS
MAY 1, 2018
A new survey by ACI Worldwide and Ovum found evidence that financial institutions (FIs) are more willing to open up their data via API and are embracing real-time payments initiatives. The report, published on Monday (April 30), found nearly three-quarters of banks surveyed (73 percent) said they would be willing to open up data to third-party developers via API.
Insights on Business
APRIL 30, 2018
The countdown clock to GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (EU) – is being closely followed by business leaders in Europe and around the world as it moves towards its May 25, 2018 deadline. While this harmonized data protection law was designed to give EU citizens more control over their personal data, there is no doubt that GDPR is having a more widespread effect due to the fact that many corporations are global in nature.
Chris Skinner
APRIL 28, 2018
The main blog headlines are … How do you manage your digital death? I just completed one of those things that none of us like doing, making a will. I recently had a major change of circumstances in my life, and decided that I should make appropriate updates and provisions. … The post The Finanser’s Week: 23rd April 2018 – 29th April 2018 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.
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Bank Innovation
MAY 4, 2018
Crowdfunding is on the rise. A recent report by Statista Digital Market Outlook shows that by 2022, crowdfunding could grow to $57 billion globally, with China being the leader in this area. To put the number in perspective, in 2017 $14.5 billion was raised by crowdfunding. So, $57 billion in a span of four years would […].
PYMNTS
APRIL 30, 2018
Ripple has announced that five new customers across Europe and Asia will use xVia to power payments over RippleNet, its blockchain network. The companies partnering with Ripple are FairFX (U.K.), RationalFX (U.K.), Exchange4Free (U.K.), UniPAY (Georgia), and MoneyMatch (Malaysia). xVia is an API solution enabling payment originators (those sending a payment on behalf of a customer, but not actually processing and paying it out) to access RippleNet.
Bobsguide
APRIL 30, 2018
The financial sector, while forging ahead in other areas of digital transformation, has been relatively slow to adopt the cloud and there has been good reason for it: banks have to deal with highly sensitive data, so sharing data storage and computer resources with others may in some cases not even.
Chris Skinner
MAY 2, 2018
Things we’re reading today include … Major Investment Bank Predicts Cryptocurrency Market “Wipe Out” British banking leverage remains ‘dangerously high’ Elderly couple face losing home as interest-only loan crisis bites TSB boss grilled by MPs TSB’s Paul Pester hits series of wrong notes in front of MPs | Nils Pratley … The post Things worth reading: 3rd May 2018 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.
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