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A Five-Step Action Plan to Mobilize ‘Mobile First’

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Hard as it is to fathom, we’ve just seen digital banking morph from “important” to “existential” status in one week’s time, and banks and credit unions that aren’t able to market, sell and serve their customers in an entirely mobile capacity are now facing an existential threat. Who prints the card?

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Cash or card: How do you pay for Christmas?

Banking 2020

Online shopping, mobile wallets, biometric ID – given all the media attention around new ways to pay, you’d be forgiven for thinking that cash has quietly shuffled off this mortal coil. But it is not so and this Christmas – when retail spending reaches its peak for the year – consumers appear as wedded to cash as ever.

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Next in Mobile Payments: The Android Alternative

Banking 2020

There was a time when the launch of a new mobile payment system from one of the world’s largest and most dynamic technology companies would have been a massive event. And that lack of excitement says more about the state of mobile payments than a hot new product might. It even offers prompts to use available loyalty or gift cards.

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How 2015 is Different for Retail Banks

Banking 2020

The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. Digital Banking.

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The Mobile Money Revolution: Transforming Lives

Banking 2020

It’s easier to tap and go with your contactless card than to use cash at a till, but is it really transforming lives? In the developing world, however, the power of mobile banking and payments to radically improve the lives of people in poverty is something that deserves attention. Mobile transformation.

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Banks and Credit Unions View Fintech Partnerships a Key Growth Strategy for 2020

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Financial institutions are making fintech partnerships a key priority in 2020, according to a new study from Cornerstone Advisors. In What’s Going On In Banking 2020: Outlook for a New Decade , 65% of banks and 76% of credit unions say these partnerships will be an important part of their business strategies this year.

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MasterCard to smash contactless payment limits

Banking 2020

The card giant says shoppers will be able to use their contactless device for high value payments at all contactless terminals across Europe by 2017. But this is only available at certain retailers – MasterCard will make sure all contactless terminals are upgraded by 2017 so they can allow high value transactions. Fraud question.