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Deep Dive: How FIs, Customers Are Navigating The Coronavirus-Inspired Spike In Digital Banking Demand

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Banks must now consider how to best expand remote services and emphasize these channels once consumers can safely visit branches again. This month’s Deep Dive examines how consumers are approaching digital banking and how FIs are leveraging online and mobile channels to prevent service gaps during the pandemic.

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Seeking Banking Balance Between Physical And Digital

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The price of real estate is prompting even the largest players in the banking world to scale back their branch operations. Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi, to name a few, all scaled back their physical bank branch locations between 2012 and 2016, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

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Challenges for the neo-challengers: Four hurdles to overcome

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Neo-challenger banks have several advantages over their traditional counterparts—including having lower operational costs, because their tech stacks are cheaper to run, and offering a tailored online experience that appeals to Millennials. Trust is central to any bank’s relationship with its customers. Cybersecurity.

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Apple Pay Faces Hemispheric Pressure

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Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank and digital banking service B began supporting Apple Pay for U.K. While Snapchat is popular among Millennials, Facebook is steadfastly a Baby-Boomer favorite , so it looks like Apple is maximizing target market opportunity. Some promising news for Apple Pay, however, also in the U.K.:

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CaixaBank Launches imaginBank, a Mobile-Only Bank for Millennials

Fintech Labs Insights

Available only via mobile app, imaginBank is a new initiative by Spanish bank, Caixabank targeting millennials. CaixaBank CEO Gonzalo Gortázar said the new mobile-only bank was part of a “commitment to providing new services that perfectly complement the more traditional banking model.” CaixaBank serves 2.9

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Unbundling Bank Of America: How The Traditional Bank Is Being Disrupted

CB Insights

Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B. The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. Business banking.

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DATA: How FI’s Innovation Gap Is Big Tech’s Big Opportunity

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As far as we can tell, the origin of the quote is from a 2012 Fortune article, with the author writing: “ A favorite Bezos aphorism is “Your margin is my opportunity.” . It is no longer accurate to say consumers are going digital — consumers went digital a while ago, and have expectations that even a decade ago would have seemed radical.