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Watson Marketing Delivers a Competitive Edge that Financial Institutions can Bank On

Insights on Business

The worldwide banking industry experienced profound challenges during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Pressures stem from a myriad of sources: competition from fintechs; unrelenting regulatory environment; associated costs of compliance (or non-compliance!); While the global economy has improved, the pressure on banks is unabated.

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Who says you can’t save your way to prosperity?

Insights on Business

The landscape for banks and brokerages today shows significant improvement from the global financial crisis of 2008 – 2009. This type of cost-cutting does little to address the emergence of fintechs, which have rapidly gone from trivial annoyance to strategic threat.

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Chief Architect Officer As Chief Bottleneck Destroyer

PYMNTS

In our fast-paced FinTech environment, business requirements aren’t typically introduced at a steady pace. The natural desire of every FinTech businesses is to continue to add value for its customers and clients. The last step is implementing around any dissimilarities to provide a uniform customer experience.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

As fintech plays a larger role in the financial ecosystem, companies are looking for ways to use tech to solve problems and find new opportunities in the space. The lab aims to improve banking through better uses of technology and has a serious focus on customer participation as the best way to find solutions. Founded: 2009.

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Credit Karma Thinks Mobile with Snowball Acquisition

Fintech Labs Insights

In April, Credit Karma unveiled its new Thin File customer experience to reach the 15 million adults in the U.S. Credit Karma demonstrated its Debt Manager platform at FinovateSpring 2009. The company has raised more than $368 million in financing, including its most recent $175 million Series D round in June.

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Santander and Kabbage Partner to Bring Same-Day Funding to UK SMEs

Fintech Labs Insights

.” Chief Customer and Innovation officer at Santander UK, Sigga Sigurdardottir said the collaboration between the bank and the online lender underscored the value of “secure, data-driven technologies that improve the customer experience.” Rob Frohwein is CEO. Tickets are on sale now.