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Making A Sizzling Leap Into Digital Banking

PYMNTS

Upon releasing its latest earnings, LendingClub , known up until now for its personal loans delivered through its online platform, said it had struck a deal to buy Radius Bancorp. The $185 cash and stock deal would bring an online bank with $1.4 Home sales were up 34 percent in the month, the best showing since 2012.

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

PYMNTS

The coronavirus pandemic has consumers around the world turning to digital devices to access banking services. The new surge in demand is putting financial institutions’ (FIs’) online and mobile offerings to the test and allowing FIs to show off their digital investments and know-how to assure customers that they are in good hands.

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Deep Dive: Why Video-Based KYC Is Key To Seamless, Cost-Effective FI Onboarding

PYMNTS

identities took center stage in 2012 — the year HSBC, Europe?s s largest bank, was fined nearly $2 billion for allowing $881 million in laundered cash to pass through accounts linked to Mexican drug cartels. The London-based bank?s adult consumers are more likely to use digital banking in response to these mandates.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

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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Stop Working on Your App Immediately

Bank Innovation

NEW ORLEANS — Banking apps are out. That’s the word out of Digital Banking 2016 here, where bankers outnumber entrepreneurs (but not vendors). The mobile banking app traces its roots to SMS banking back in 1999. Since 2012, it has been the fastest growing technology in banking.

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Bank Branch Closings Take Toll On Rural Communities 

PYMNTS

lost bank branches between 2012 and 2017, with rural areas feeling the brunt of the closures, according to research from the Federal Reserve released on Monday (Nov. Rural communities with lower incomes or a higher percentage of minorities saw the most closures, losing 1,553 bank branches in 794 counties, a decline of 14 percent.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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