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Green Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’

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That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online. By 2001, sales were good enough that Streit was able to persuade CVS and Walgreens to get in on the action. area Rite Aid stores in 1998.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago.

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Top 28 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses

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Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It’s telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application.

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Top 26 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses (SMB, May 2021)

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Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It’s telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application.

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Top 33 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses (SMB) in Nov 2021

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Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It’s telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application.

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Has Unbundling Lost Its Cool?

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Open banking, set in motion globally by a regulatory fiat called PSD2 , gives licensed third parties access to banking infrastructure so that they can make their services available to existing bank customers. Digital music has been unbundled since the iPod and iTunes got a head of steam in 2001.

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