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Citigroup Eyes Creation Of National Digital Bank

PYMNTS

Citigroup is gearing up to launch a digital consumer bank that will be national in scope and will arrive within the next three years. The CFO said the bank won’t start marketing a national digital bank until it can provide services via mobile phones and computers for customers, who have increasingly gone digital.

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The Race To The Cloud: Will Digital Banks Win?

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More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. Developments Around The Cloud Banking World. British FI Lloyds Bank is moving forward on its digital journey with the help of a few partners.

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Digital Services Mean Every Bank Is a National Bank

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Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group is making a significant digital push this quarter, and highlighted a number of areas this is benefiting the bank’s consumer business. But the most significant revelation from the company’s earnings call yesterday may be that digital banking allows any bank to become national.

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Varo Achieves Milestone As First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

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Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter.

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Reimagining The Bank As A Technology Company

PYMNTS

Intimidated by the scale and cost of a massive technological overhaul, large financial institutions (FIs) may approach their digital transformation (DX) journeys gradually, targeting various areas of operations to modernize one-by-one. “Banks are technology companies,” Rio Tinto recently told PYMNTS.

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Increasing Digital Banking Options Put Pressure On Big Lenders To Adapt

PYMNTS

Of course, the pandemic has forced banks – like all businesses – to rethink their priorities and make adjustments to how they interface with customers. In the future of banking, we see the ATM becoming a dynamic, digital, self-service platform on which banks can deploy new services quickly.”.

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Israel Approves New Digital Bank

PYMNTS

The Bank of Israel is green lighting a new digital bank — the country’s first new financial institution in decades. The digital bank is led by entrepreneurs Marius Nacht of cyber security company Check Point Software Technologies , and Amnon Shashua of autonomous driving developer Mobileye NV.