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This Week’s Reads: Wearable Technology, Mobile Payments, Digital Transformation and Industry Insights

Banking 2020

The Widening Worldwide Reach of Wearables: According to International Data Corporation, wearable technology such as smartwatches, smarter clothing, and eyewear will be more ubiquitous than ever in the near future. The Biggest Threat to Community Banks Is Thinking Small: L.T. What have you been reading?

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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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Wearable Technology: What Not to Wear

Banking 2020

Here’s a perfect a snapshot of how crazy technology adoption can be. In early December, there was a flood of coverage of wearable technology, mostly focused on how 2015 will be the breakout year. Of course, while most such shows analyze the past, technology forces us to look forward, hence the nuanced approach.

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Picture This: The Camera-Ready Industry

Banking 2020

In that sense, it’s almost depressing to think that, as an industry, we still haven’t done enough. Given the astonishing rates of adoption for most mobile technologies—mobile banking usage has gone from 12 million people in 2009 to a projected 45 million this year—how long is it before this is really the norm?

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Banking Shift: 3 Ways the Debt Industry is Changing

Banking 2020

Debt collection is an industry with deeply entrenched practices; it’s slowly growing, subject to macro economic trends and credit cycles, and rife with litigation. These are the hallmarks of a mature industry, one that isn’t expected to demonstrate extraordinary technical foresight and innovation. However, change is coming. The result?

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Lending: When Technology Makes the Call

Banking 2020

It’s easy to get bogged down in the endless debate over the mingling of banking technology. Resisting the tide is to live in denial—things will change, and the better our industry can handle it, the better things will be for everyone. The banking technology more than the banker will actually make the call.

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Top 4 priorities for the payments industry

Banking 2020

As PSD2 hits Europe and real-time payments systems gain traction globally, the question of infrastructure has perhaps never been higher up the agenda for the industry. Technology-led disruption to the way we view how to pay and what is expected from a transaction means constant reassessment of the fabric of the payments sector.