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FinTech Cloud Technology Fuels Banking Innovation

PYMNTS

As cloud technologies emerge to help financial institutions (FIs) drive digital innovation, Finastra has introduced its Fusion Payments To Go offering for small and medium-sized banks. Alacriti, a FinTech that was started in 2003, works with banks and other customers on making the migration to digital payments.

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Real Innovation Solves Today’s Problems, Not Tomorrow’s

PYMNTS

Innovation happens when you least expect it. Those we call “innovators” are simply the ones who endeavor to solve the problems in front of them by any means necessary. Only later do others look at them and call them “innovators.” PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? The conversation is excerpted below.

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Identity Fraud Hits Record High in 2016

Bank Innovation

The identity fraud incidence rate increased by 16%, a record high since the company began tracking identity fraud in 2003. More than 15 million people were affected by identity fraud in the U.S. last year, according to a recent study by Javelin Strategy & Research.

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McDonald’s Banks On Bakery To Beef Up Breakfast Sales

PYMNTS

We’re continuing our breakfast innovation by adding tasty new sweet options with our new McCafé Bakery lineup. Breakfast burritos topped the morning menu at McDonald’s in 1991, and McGriddles followed in 2003. That will all change on Oct. Further, the company’s popular premium roast coffee is now 100 percent sustainably sourced.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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Financial Services: The Next Generation … where is it?

Chris Skinner

I’ve blogged about how I see leadership in the developing (developed now) economies of China and India, and the new innovation models of emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, but not quite in the way in which I see them now. The more I think about it, we have three major FinTech models, each with their own unique blend of thinking.

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Citizens Bank readies mobile app revamp after COVID delay

BankInovation

Citizens Bank is overhauling its 17-year-old mobile app, a move that should improve both the customer experience on the front-end and speed product development on the back-end, Chief Experience Officer Beth Johnson told Bank Innovation.

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