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Varo Achieves Milestone As First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

PYMNTS

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. As a new national bank, Varo joins the world’s most respected system of financial institutions and has the opportunity to become a household name as many other national banks have become.”.

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Best Practices for Managing Credit Risk in Recession

Abrigo

Key Takeaways This recession is significantly different than the 2008 financial crisis, creating a unique credit environment for financial institutions. is officially in a recession, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. The national effects remain opaque and will continue to change – do not get complacent.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. Oh, brother!

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Money Management During The Coronavirus Crisis

BankBazaar

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed entire nations into lockdowns, crushed value chains, and stressed household finances. It is way worse than the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.”. Therefore, smart money management is critical to survival through this period. HOW TO MANAGE CASH. We are now in recession. AVOID PANIC.

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

PYMNTS

These are $100 billion market cap companies that are sitting in the middle of the payments supply chain.”. Lukies said that prior to the 2008 financial crisis, regulators and the like normally left banks to their own devices, as long as they didn’t mess it up so that people couldn’t pay their bills or go shopping.

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Uber Creates Uber Money Team In India With FinTech Focus

PYMNTS

Besides engineering, we are investing in growing and scaling data science, analytics, and product management organizations to transform Hyderabad into a full spectrum tech site for Uber.”. Uber Money in India would be reportedly based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the real-time payment system of the National Payments Corp.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 Harassment included a bellicose management team, scowls from the townspeople, and threatening sidewalk art outside of the bank. The government guarantee allowed for a secondary market in these loans. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise.