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Building a Discipline to Drive Digital Banking Strategy

Gonzobanker

With megabanks spending billions on digital investments each year, regional and community bank executives understand they cannot compete on resources. Instead, these players are focusing on specific niches, brand strategies and community connections to differentiate themselves. Appoint Digital Ambassadors.

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LendingClub Gets OK To Acquire Radius Bancorp

PYMNTS

And the pandemic has done nothing but coalesce LendingClub’s digital strategy to become a full spectrum of consumer and commercial loan products across digital conduits, said Nayar (who added that LendingClub already exists as a “massive powerhouse on the loan side”). Timing, as they say, is everything.

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Digital banking is ready to take off in Latin America

Celent Banking

Digital is the new reality in Latin America. In a recent Celent survey 100% of the participants recognized that a scenario where all financial products get digitized needs to be addressed sometime in the next 7 years and 59% of them believe it needs to be addressed immediately. They launched in March of this year.

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Who Owns Digital? Ugh, That’s the Problem for Bankers

Gonzobanker

Bank executives are coming to understand that in today’s world, the customer experience (CX) is the product, although not all have made a serious commitment to address newfound competition. Experience design is a specific skillset that is needed to steer the execution of a bank’s digital strategy. Among 300 U.S.

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Digitization Could Halt Corporate Banks’ Shrinking Profits, Analysts Say

PYMNTS

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has released a new report that suggests corporate bankers may be able to halt shrinking profits through digital transformation. According to the BCG’s “Corporate Banking Executive Survey,” “front-to-back digital transformations” are essential to halt this shrinkage.

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Germany’s Central Bank Says Tech Presents Hurdles, Opportunities

PYMNTS

Digitalization is the biggest challenge for supervision since the financial crisis,” said Wuermeling, who is also a member of the European Central Bank ’s supervisory board. “It It remains unclear which digital strategies will remain in the long term, therefore digitalization has to be seen as a moving target.

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Commoditization, Optimization or Transformation: What’s in Your Core Wallet?

Gonzobanker

Maybe this is the new reality for community bankers, but Cornerstone Advisors is seeing little evidence that they’re serious about implementing a comprehensive digital strategy. Topping their list of complaints: speed to market/pace of new improvements (or lack thereof) and integration challenges.

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