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PSCU Names Kevin Spear New SVP, Service Delivery

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This is Spear’s second round at PSCU, as he was previously in charge of Client Relations and Services at the company from 2006 to 2012. Spear has already held several executive roles in sales, service and client relations with firms including Card Management Corporation, PNC Bank and UPS Capital Corp. “It

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

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Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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FDIC: Community banks outperform industry in third quarter

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To provide a report card on industry status and performance, the FDIC publishes a Quarterly Banking Profile. Another bright spot: less than seven percent of community banks were unprofitable – the lowest since the second quarter of 2006. They performed better than a year ago and also outperformed the industry as a whole.

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

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His main exposure to the payments industry was using his Bank of America debit card to pay for things at the store. 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. area Rite Aid stores in 1998.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

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Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC. Walmart claimed it wanted to leverage the proposed bank mainly for the purpose of lowering costs of its backroom processing of check and credit card transactions and to offer high-interest certificates of deposits.

Industry 108
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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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It’s the decoupled debit card. Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. Merchants paid less when they accepted those cards.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

Adding to the observation is the fact that from roughly 2001-2006, a devastating housing price bubble formed due to lax lending standards. According to the S&P/Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, home prices rose a whopping 63% over that period (2001-2006) before beginning to crater heading into the Financial Crisis.

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