PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For all of the innovation that's occurred in the banking landscape, it's often consumers – not corporates – that benefit from the latest technologies. Corporates are seeking modern user interfaces (UIs) with a consistent user experience across channels, including mobile platforms. The Drive To Upgrade.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the bid to hasten their digital transformation, when it comes to innovation , financial institutions (FIs) may benefit from an “app store” approach as they weigh existing and new solutions. PYMNTS’ own research has found that consumers are more willing than ever to switch banks in pursuit of better apps and user experiences.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

However, financial institutions (FIs) are getting better at separating vital areas of innovation from the hype. Banks are increasingly focusing on the fundamentals when determining their innovation agendas. Payment technology is in many ways the flagship among the fleet of innovations that banks are pursuing.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 28, 2019

LAS VEGAS — Bank of Oklahoma has adopted Blend’s digital lending platform, the fintech announced at the 2019 Auto Finance Summit. Blend’s platform is designed to simplify user experience for the consumer to drive increases in completed online applications and funding rates.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Lithuania wants to become a global FinTech powerhouse. In recent years, the market has gone from one struggling with high financial illiteracy and limited card acceptance, to a bright spot in Europe for FinTech innovation. Regulation is perhaps the strongest driver of Lithuania’s FinTech-friendly environment.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, executives of PayPal and Mastercard touted partnerships between financial technology companies and banks as a positive way to gain customers’ trust and innovate new ways for customers to interact with their finances. On Tuesday (Jan.

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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. By providing a streamlined user experience, they can add value to the financial institution and the cardholder, putting themselves into the commerce stream.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The payments industry has been riding the wave of shifting consumer habits and demands, placing the end-user experience at the forefront of new products, services and infrastructure. Those users, both consumers and businesses, aren’t just demanding choice, however.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

While this industry is largely reliant on corporates’ adoption of innovative technology, it is also instrumental to getting issuing banks in on the movement. According to the executive, the key is to work “with banks, not against them” – a sentiment that has become a mantra for many in the FinTech market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

As PYMNTS has spoken with innovators in areas like commerce and telemedicine who are facing the effects emergent health crisis directly, a consensus has emerged. Innovators and creative players will pull the opportunity from the problem, but the hits are real and likely will get worse before they get better, particularly in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In the journey to improve the payments experience, sometimes the best user experience (UX) is an unnoticeable one. FinTechs have had to take on a leadership role to embracing an imbedded payments experience. You already have everything here inside this very same solution and platform.".

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Consumers take a somewhat binary view of the features and functions that come packaged as innovative: They either believe those innovations can solve problems and, therefore, embrace them or the consumers go somewhere else that offers legacy features and functions. Delving Deeper .

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

When it comes to technological innovation, however, the smaller players have long been outgunned by larger FIs and their sizable IT budgets. Today, small banks are more aggressive and ambitious in their innovation strategies than medium-sized and large FIs. This is changing — in a big way. percent to higher than that of large FIs.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Innovation is oxygen in payments. For financial services firms, innovation is spurring speed, killing friction and fostering loyalty among customers. That, itself, begs the question: What is innovation, really? explained there is wide variation in the definition of innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

However, CUs are not the only financial institutions (FIs) looking to offer digital banking innovations to their members. FinTechs are also emerging as major CU competitors. This puts FinTechs and CUs on a collision course, with each racing to innovate new products that will grab members’ attention and patronage.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The small business FinTech arena continues to blossom as more developers explore ways to address a market historically underserved by traditional financial institutions (FIs). “We think of the user experience as critical and want to apply this philosophy on the business side.” The Front-End Strategy: UX.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2019

While large consumer-facing fintech companies like Square, Klarna, Affirm and others tout speed and efficiency of their user experiences, card issuing and processing startup Marqeta‘s technology supports their payment capabilities, with its APIs allowing […].

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 20, 2019

Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2019

Depending on where you look, the chasm yawns wide when it comes to innovating with new technologies or features. In a PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster, Joe DeRosa, EVP of Global Sales at i2c , discussed the findings of the July 2019 Innovation Readiness Playbook , subtitled “Leveling the Playing Field for Different-Sized FIs.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And as FinTechs continue to challenge banks, but also offer new opportunities within the B2B space, they’re advancing a corollary to the build vs. buy question: How about partnerships? Yet within the traditional FIs, it’s been important to push through the inertia that has tempered innovation. Where The Banks Are Focused .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. Visa Launches FinTech Collaboration Initiative In Europe. Poland's mBank Taps Treasury Pricing FinTech.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

The challenge for the bank will be remaining competitive when the interest rate is ultimately dialed back and the offering itself – namely its features and user experience — need to steer the ship. The focus for us has to be customer experience,” Dickinson explained of the pause due to speed of growth.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

He has already driven tech innovation at Citigroup, pushing for the creation of Citi Smart Match, a tool created in conjunction with High Radius, one of the bank’s FinTech partners. In December, under Kohli’s charge, Citigroup partnered with Feedzai , the FinTech to alert companies to suspicious payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Corporate Spending Innovations (CSI) President David Disque , for instance, spoke with PYMNTS about the challenges organizations face regarding interconnectivity with their business partners, as well as the friction that exists in moving not only electronic money, but electronic data from one corporate to another. It's All About Timing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Just because businesses are interested and willing to adopt payments innovations doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. They really hadn’t been very innovative around that franchise for a long time.”. Of course, the actual end user — the business — plays perhaps the biggest role in determining whether a market like the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

have announced a partnership that they said will accelerate innovation across digital commerce and startup ecosystems. By leveraging Mastercard’s global network and Azure’s global reach, the partnership aims to give partners the ability to tap into new innovations and commerce capabilities, including new means of digital payments via devices.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

For corporations that want to stay ahead of the competition, innovation is a must, but developing and supporting a payment solution can prove challenging. Many crave greater opportunities to administer their solutions and control the user experience. Flexible and Far-Reaching . Changing Payments Landscape .

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

While large consumer-facing fintech companies like Square, Klarna, Affirm and others tout speed and efficiency of their user experiences, card issuing and processing startup Marqeta‘s technology supports their payment capabilities, with its APIs allowing […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

As evidenced by the Bank Innovation Readiness Index , done in collaboration between the two firms, more than 200 banks and financial institutions are in varying stages of preparedness when it comes to payments innovation. Winitz said that innovation can be disruptive or it can be incremental. Data Point Number One: 64 Percent.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

NovoPayment, an enabler of digital financial services, announced Wednesday (November 28) the expansion of its Developer Hub to include new partner-integrated application protocol interfaces (APIs), enterprise customer functionalities and an enhanced user experience. million end-points.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With more and more FinTechs introducing their own banking services, the competition is heating up. Small business lending platform BlueVine is the latest FinTech to take this path, having taken the wraps off of its banking solution this week with the launch of BlueVine Business Banking. Plus, the U.S. TrueLayer Launches in Australia.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Banks today recognize that they must embrace innovation to survive in a world being rapidly transformed by digital technology. For the past year, PYMNTS has been examining how banks are faring on the road to technological innovation. Our research establishes that effective IT and core systems are at the heart of successful innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Innovation happens when you least expect it. Those we call “innovators” are simply the ones who endeavor to solve the problems in front of them by any means necessary. Only later do others look at them and call them “innovators.” PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? The conversation is excerpted below.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As Shultz emphasized, collaboration – between corporates, banks, FinTechs and the broader payments ecosystem – will be essential to lifting those barriers. ” Another major barrier to adoption is the concern of real-time payments fraud , a threat for both service providers and corporate users. ”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

But could merchant incentives help fuel this ongoing effort at digital payments innovation? Open Banking regulations and enable trusted third parties to access a customer’s data based on the account holder’s consent — a key step toward more digital payments innovation. Bank Threat. API Aggregation.

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