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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example.

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Why The Customer Experience Is A Program, Not A Project

PYMNTS

The pandemic has reshaped how we interact with merchants — and what we expect, as customers, from those increasingly digital interactions. Call it the transformation of CX, shorthand for the customer experience. I see us rapidly adopting more contactless payments or card-on-file interactions within an app.”.

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FinTech Innovation Eases B2C Sellers’ Entrance Into The B2B World

PYMNTS

The takeover signaled an evolution of the company's business model from a traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) seller, to one that includes business-to-business (B2B) operations. The card rails, in particular, offer a way for traditionally B2C merchants to ease their expansion into B2B payments, he said.

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FIs Hiring Customer Experience Teams, But What Are They?

Bank Innovation

Demand for a combination of speed, simplicity, security and convenience in banking services has financial institutions thinking more about customer experience, particularly in a digital sense, and hiring people to design that experience.

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EMV’s Delay Has Been The Convenience Store’s Innovation Gain

PYMNTS

It’s not hard to find experts who predict that, even with the new date, gas stations will fail to comply with the deadline, which is set by card networks. The number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world stands at more than 7.1 Such issues will have to be worked out over the next 12 months.

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BMO’s Digital-First Transformation Unlocks Operational Efficiencies

PYMNTS

The banking industry is increasingly favoring self-service, as customers making transactions grow to prefer tellerless ATM and kiosk interactions. This is really freeing up our branch bankers to have more time to dedicate to customers, and have better holistic conversations, and create more personalized recommendations.”.

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Revolutionizing the Way We Pay: The Top Payment Industry Trends You Need to Know in 2023

Perficient

A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder. Both Visa and Mastercard rolled out pilot biometric payment cards in 2022. To use this offering, cardholders enrolled a fingerprint to have securely stored on their card.

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