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Millennial-Focused Digital Bank Empower Finance Raises $20M

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San Francisco-based Empower Finance, a mobile banking app aimed at helping millennials save wealth, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Defy Ventures and Icon Ventures, according to a report. The digital banking field is fraught with competition. It offers a savings account with a 1.6

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The Impact of Mobile Card Apps On FI Customer Retention

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The trend toward digitization in consumers’ lives isn’t new, but COVID-19 has accelerated it dramatically over the past several months. Deposits had already been trending away from community banks and credit unions anyway, but COVID-19 has accelerated that shift. Lesher said a few key features comprise a modern, digital-first offering.

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Deep Dive: How FIs, Customers Are Navigating The Coronavirus-Inspired Spike In Digital Banking Demand

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Banks must now consider how to best expand remote services and emphasize these channels once consumers can safely visit branches again. This month’s Deep Dive examines how consumers are approaching digital banking and how FIs are leveraging online and mobile channels to prevent service gaps during the pandemic.

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Mastercard Card Clearing In China, Unattended Retail, Rapid Settlements Top This Week’s News

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China’s central bank gave Mastercard the green light on Feb. 11 to set up a bank card clearing business, providing it with access to a $27 trillion payments market. The People’s Bank of China said it has approved an application by Mastercard’s Chinese joint venture to run a bank card clearing business in the nation.

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Why Mobile Card Apps Must Be More Than ‘A Nice Little Tool’ For FIs

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While fast, explosive and unexpected change is almost impossible to miss — the global domino effect the coronavirus has kicked off being the most obvious recent example — change that happens more quietly and incrementally doesn’t quite set off the same type of alarm bells. Meanwhile, 28.5

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Mobile Banking and Millennials – Will the Love Last?

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A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….

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How Brick-and-Mortar Banks Can Seize The Digital Moment

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There was a time when consumers did not require much more from their local bank than a checking account, savings account and an ATM card. This has changed dramatically in recent years as consumers’ financial lives have migrated to the digital realm. In contrast, national bank customers are less likely to switch FIs, with 25.9

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