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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. Dunning said such value-added offerings are more relevant to consumers today than they’ve ever been.

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Digital Banking Apps Cashing In

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Whatever nomenclature you prefer — neobank, challenger bank, digital bank — the common denominator is app-based convenience and the power of algorithms to help manage and save that has people downloading these apps like mad. The latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Digital Banking Apps shows how the players are stacking up.

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Mastercard On The ‘Digital-First’ Transformation Of Credit Cards Into Daily Money Management Tools

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The great digital shift is transforming credit cards into money management tools. Consumers want cards, and they want them quickly, and they want those cards [delivered] in a digital way," said Turner. Those processors will in turn work with issuing banks to offer near-instant issuance of cards.

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In Brazil, Banking Customers Turn To Debit, Digital Banking

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These shifts have made digital banking and debit transactions more important than ever. Consumers are also avoiding cash out of concern that the virus could linger on physical object and are thus favoring virtual and contactless payment cards instead. The Paytm cards can be used both in-store and online.

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i2c Partners With Credit Sesame For Enhanced Money Management Services

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Digital payment and open banking firm i2c has announced its partnership with Credit Sesame ‘s Sesame Cash , which will give more customers the option to use Credit Sesame’s money management services, according to a press release.

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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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Digital Banking App Rankings Get Into A Groove

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We like the action, of which there is no shortage in the digital banking space. Legacy names and newcomers alike are ranging freely across the forming digital banking landscape, with digital anywhere access portals in their pockets — the smartphone. From the top it’s challenger bank Chime at No. The Top 10.