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What Digital Banks Are Doing Right

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The past several years have been good times for digital banking players popping up to challenge traditional brick-and-mortar financial institutions for market share, but recent months have accelerated that trend into overdrive.

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Citi Q4 Earnings Show Digital Banking Growth, Drop In Card Spending

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“As a sign of the strength and durability of our diversified franchise, our revenues were flat to 2019, despite the massive economic impact of COVID-19,” outgoing CEO Mike Corbat noted in the bank’s earnings release. In other critical figures, card spending continued to fall. Citi-branded card revenue came in at $2.1

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Video Content Creates Digital-First Brand Loyalty

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Though the world before then seems hard to remember, consumers were already in the process of shifting shopping habits toward digital before then, while workers were already leveraging the digital world to work from home. Cash was already on the decline, and digital banking was already on the rise.

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Digital Bank HMBradley Raises $18.25M To Accelerate Credit Program

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Digital banking platform HMBradley announced on Tuesday (Nov. The funding, which was led by Acrew Capital , will also be used to expand its customer offerings, the bank said in a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The card adapts rewards based on the users’ changing spending habits. 24) that it has raised $18.25

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Barclays Rivals Goldman’s Marcus With Digital Bank

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consumers a low-cost, digital-only bank that will directly compete with Goldman Sachs ‘s Marcus brand. Barry Rodrigues, CEO of cards and payments at Barclaycard International, told Financial Times that the new offering would “leverage Barclays’ U.K. Barclays is ready to offer U.S.

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Digital Bank N26 Offers New Perk Partners To US Debit Card Users

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N26 aims to connect all aspects of our users’ lives seamlessly and that includes partnering with their favorite brands,” said Nicolas Kopp, U.S. N26 partners with Axos Bank to offer a Visa debit card and FDIC-insured checking account. Customers can get full information in the new “Explore” tab in the N26 app. CEO of N26.

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RBS Buys 25 Percent Stake In Loot As It Readies Digital Bank

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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is gearing up to launch a new digital bank, has acquired a 25 percent stake in Loot , a U.K. According to a report in Financial Times , citing Royal Bank of Scotland , Loot offers customers a current account and pre-paid debit card.