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NowRx: Digital Identity Benchmarks Help Healthcare Industry Set Tone For Privacy

PYMNTS

This trend toward digital has only increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this growing population of online-only or online-majority customers also means that identifying those consumers has become essential for businesses and financial institutions (FIs) in global markets.

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How Middle Eastern Merchants Can Keep Up With Pandemic-Driven Privacy, Payment Shifts

PYMNTS

What has shifted most during the pandemic are consumers’ views on the data privacy and online security standards attached to these digital transactions, Oren Paran , managing director for Israeli retail startup firm Retail Innovation Club , explained in an interview with PYMNTS. Online Payments Drive Privacy Concerns. under the GDPR.

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Everyone’s talking about APIs. Why?

Insights on Business

As Jim Marous notes in his article, Top 10 Retail Banking Trends and Predictions for 2017 , “APIs were not even listed as a 2016 trend, but was #4 in 2017.”. One of the new APIs from IBM is Cognitive Market Sensing. And it’s a place where large institutions and FinTechs startups alike can monetize their offerings.

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10 Lessons We Learned at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payment Conference

South State Correspondent

timeshare companies, crypto firms, multi-level marketing, credit repair, dating services, telemarketing, tech support companies, etc.). The session also covered the new Georgia “merchant acquirer limited purpose bank” (MALPB) charter, which has the potential to be popular among fintechs wanting bank powers.

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How 5G Will Shake Up Banking and FinTech?

PYMNTS

As that mobile technology get closer to mainstream introduction, the potential 5G ecosystem for FinTech and mobile banking is gaining clarity. Banks and credit unions are still wrestling with the best ways to deploy mobile technology, and do so in ways that balance security, and safe authentication, and consumer convenience.

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Credit Unions Unite Behind Digital Banking

PYMNTS

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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Will Regulators ‘De-Bank’ Challengers, Neos, Cryptos & Fintechs?

The Financial Brand

Signs point to stricter rules for how nonbanks can use banking terms in their apps and marketing, complicating banking-as-a-service deals. The post Will Regulators ‘De-Bank’ Challengers, Neos, Cryptos & Fintechs? appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights.