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Barclays Rivals Goldman’s Marcus With Digital Bank

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While he would not reveal how many current account customers Barclays hoped to attract to the new checking account, its initial target market will be the 10 million customers that already hold a Barclays co-branded credit card, as well as the 3 million in its existing digital bank. It recently rolled out its services in the U.K.,

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Credit Unions Unite Behind Digital Banking

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That help is forthcoming, as in the case of the Central Bank of Ireland , which is changing regulations to favor more CU lending with higher limits. There is a sense, however, that CUs themselves bear responsibility for falling behind the digital banking trends that first took hold with consumers.

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Goldman Sachs, Backed By Marcus Lending, Books 4 Pct. Revenue Gain For Q3

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Goldman Sachs booked a 4 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the third quarter of 2018, with that growth powered in part by increased lending through its Marcus by Goldman Sachs online consumer savings and lending platform. Q3 revenue for the investment bank hit $8.65 percent higher than the $5.02

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

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The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.

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Bitcoin Daily: Lending Protocol Nuo Announces Digital Banking Platform Built On Ethereum, B2C2 Crypto Liquidity Firm Announces Gold Derivative

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The founders of lending protocol Nuo have announced the launch of a new digital banking platform called Juno, which will be built on top of ethereum. The platform will rely on the Nuo protocol and is set to launch early next year. Juno’s flagship product will allow users to hold the dollar-pegged stablecoin and earn a 5.5

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4 winners and losers from the American Banker Digital Banking 2018 Conference

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Attendance at American Banker’s Digital Banking conference has grown significantly since I was here in 2016, reflecting the obvious interest levels in digital, yet the vibe remained largely the same as two years ago…. If 2016’s conference was the “mobile” conference, 2018 was most definitely the “voice” conference.

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2018 Innovators to Watch: 44 Executives Shaping the Future of Banking [Page 1]

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PREMIUM – Every year Bank Innovation assembles a list of 44 innovators that caught our attention in digital banking and fintech. These are the people Bank Innovation believes to be this year’s movers and shakers in the industry, paving the way with forward-thinking technologies and ideas.