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Today In Digital-First Banking: MercadoLibre Gets License From Brazil, Alacriti Collaborates With Glia On Customer Service

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In today’s top digital-first banking news, MercadoLibre has been granted a license from Brazil’s central bank, while payments FinTech Alacriti has teamed with Glia on new customer service options for payments needs. Plus, payment startup SumUp has been granted a new electronic money license from Ireland’s central bank.

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What a load of COBOLx

Chris Skinner

Celent estimate that 80% or more of the $200 billion spent by banks on IT is maintaining legacy systems. I know I’ve made this point often but banks are run by bankers when they really should be balanced with technologists, as they are FinTech firms. This is not a new phenomena either.

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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.

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Three rules for banking bots

Chris Skinner

It feels nearer, but when a group of experts on Artificial General Intelligence were asked this question in 2012, their view was that it would not be achieved until 2040. As you can see, the idea – and sexism – hasn’t changed much in that time. The question here being: When will achieve the Singularity?

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Channeling APIs To Stay Compliant With Regulators

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That growing group of FIs includes Sweden-based FinTech Tink , which offers a consumer-facing digital banking platform alongside a growing B2B API development business. Founded in 2012, Tink debuted its AI and machine learning-focused digital banking platform the following year to give customers better financial insights.

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

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Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on.

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The Search For Relief From Banks’ ‘Suffocating’ Legacy Infrastructure

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FinTech competition quickly ended banks’ practice of turning a blind eye to a lack of digital offerings. With more options than ever, customers demand better services, and that often cannot be offered without better technology. ” Indeed, it isn’t just FinTechs adding disruption to the market. .”