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Fintech Unfiltered: Inside HSBC Bank USA’s Lofty Innovation Strategy for 2018 [Podcast]

Bank Innovation

As a part of its retail transformation strategy, HSBC Bank USA spent over $130 million on innovation projects in one year on its U.S. operations. These projects range from less visible, but equally important, system upgrades on the back-end and more visible ones like installing Softbank’s robot Pepper in its New York flagship.

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Commerzbank’s Digital Innovation Strategy in Germany’s Cash-Heavy Economy

Bank Innovation

billion ($513 billion) in assets, and boasting a 50-person innovation lab, implementing fintech for a fiat-focused market has its challenges. In some markets, banks and fintechs are a long way from overcoming the dependence on cash. This challenge is felt at Germany’s Commerzbank. As one of the country’s top five banks, with €452.5

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BNP Paribas Launches Global Investment Fund, Plans Five Investments Per Year

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE – Paris-based BNP Paribas announced this week that it has launched a startup investment fund, and called this move the final piece in its innovation strategy.

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Acorns CEO Noah Kerner Attributes Growth to Keeping Things Simple

Bank Innovation

If there’s one word that describes the abiding value of investment platform Acorns’ innovation strategy, that’s the word, according to its CEO Noah Kerner, who is currently gearing up to launch Acorns Later in the coming weeks. EXCLUSIVE- Simplicity.

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Digital-only financial institutions avoid leveraging pandemic fears 

Bank Innovation

Being a branchless bank is part of who we are, but we don’t want to resort to scare tactics,” said Nicole Lorch, chief operating officer at First Internet Bank. The novel coronavirus may be closing bank branches nationwide, but some digital-only financial institutions are trying not to exploit consumer fears. The Fishers, Ind.-based

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Square Partners With POWDR To Offer Ski Resorts Contactless Transactions

PYMNTS

Safety is our top priority, on and off the mountain, and Square knows this and aligns with POWDR’s Operation Stay Safe, the enhanced POWDR mountain experience that prioritizes the well-being of our staff, guests and community in the midst of the pandemic.”.

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Sky’s The Limit For Cloud Computing

PYMNTS

That investment now has the potential to transform the way some businesses operate.”. The Tracker also analyzed the challenges traditional FIs are facing to innovate their platforms and why these banks must fundamentally change their innovation strategies to meet these challenges.

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