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Credit Unions Find ‘Co-opetition’ Key To Closing The Innovation Gap

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Credit unions (CUs) face stiff competition from banks, FinTech firms and other players in the financial industry, but they have several intrinsic advantages. The total number of CUs in operation declined from 6,743 in 2015 to 5,390 as of 2019, but the total number of CU members increased over the course of the decade from 89.3

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Fed Casting Wary Eye On FinTech Firms’ Infrastructure Access?

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As FinTechs eye growth, and look to gain scale by providing more “mainstream” financial services, might those plans hit a speed bump when it comes to the infrastructure needed to bring products to the masses? I am concerned that FinTech will be the source of the next crisis.”. In Asia, Examining Cross-Border FinTech.

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Fed’s Sapenaro On How To Forge Ahead With Payments Innovation

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With the financial services space shifting from a competitive nature to a collaborative spirit between traditional banks and emerging FinTechs, one major stakeholder in the payments industry has quietly been an integral part of this co-op: the Federal Reserve. Louis, as its new payments strategy director.

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CUs Work Together To Stay Ahead Of The Competition

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Their traditional banking rivals are now supplemented by young, agile FinTechs that advertise the most advanced technology and much greater efficiency than their legacy counterparts, meaning that CUs must lean into their strengths to get ahead. Few are more familiar with this challenge than St. There’s No “I” in CU. Getting Technical.

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Top News in Payments: UK FCA Asks Banks To Explain High Overdraft Fees; Yandex Launches 15-Minute Grocery Delivery

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The company plans to operate the service, called Lavka, like a digital convenience market, and stocks roughly 2,000 items. The FinTech, which focuses on cross-border payments, will use the funding to boost its technology portfolio and partner network. . Credit Unions Find ‘Co-opetition’ Key To Closing The Innovation Gap.

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Faster Payments And The Fed, Two Years On

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The goal is an ambitious one, to be sure, one that needs collaboration between sometime competitors in the banking and FinTech arenas. More than two years after the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force first took shape in 2015, the push toward innovation and improved infrastructure (and why shouldn’t the two be intertwined?)

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The math behind small business lending: Problems & possibilities for banks & credit unions

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The piece covers: Statistics on small business lending and its role in communities and the economy Traditional depository institutions’ changing market share in small business lending The challenges (financial and operational) of small business lending for banks, credit unions, and borrowers. Louis Fed : [S]mall-business loans—i.e.,

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