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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. billion after recently closing a financing round.

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

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The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.

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A new digital bank needs a new customer service experience

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Banks continue their digital transformation journey to create new business models to satisfy today’s demanding customers. How do banks prepare for this new reality? For Bradesco, a large Brazilian bank, NEXT is the answer. Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand.

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WSFS Bank: Plain Vanilla Digital Banking Won’t Cut It Any More

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Banks today are familiar with the challenges of supporting digital platforms as an increasing number of customers turn to online-only solutions. One study found more than 45 percent of millennial users, for example, have at least considered leaving their FIs and signing up with fully digital banks.

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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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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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Digital Banking: Humanizing the Customer Experience

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Following the highly successful The 11 Commandments of Digital Banking eBook , we are kicking off a series of 5 deeper dive blog posts that group the 11 commandments below into common themes. Digital lift-and-shift is not a strategy! Banks must find ways to be personable in these impersonal channels. Respect the data.