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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry. Approximately 2% of bank IT spending arises on a “shadow basis,” which is all the technology spent on someone’s credit card that never gets allocated officially to IT or the business unit.

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Bank Earnings Are Toast – It’s Time to Take Bold Action

Gonzobanker

Using quarterly comparisons from last year’s performance, we forecasted each bank’s income statement as follows: Net interest margin contracted by 15 basis points Non-interest income declined 15% Loan loss provisions increased by 350% from the same quarter last year. 25% 140 banks will have capital levels that have fallen below 8%.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Restaurants Rule, FireEye Flounders And Lending Club Is Back On The List

PYMNTS

So, while seemingly paling in comparison, this week had its fair share of Sizzles — and some interesting Fizzles. Then, there was the announcement of Square Capital’s partnership with Upserve , a restaurant management system (the same one that also acquired Breadcrumb from Groupon in May) to extend working capital to restaurants.

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J.P.Morgan’s Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys

Lex Sokolin

The venture capital games of embedded finance , open banking, PSD2 and API, all of these revolve around the premise that banks are behind on cloud technology and do not know how to package and deliver financial products to where they matter. As a comparison, we have always needed light, but the technology of light?—?from

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Fintech Fundings: 114 Companies Raised $7.3 Billion in April

Fintech Labs Insights

Deposit price comparison site. Health insurance comparison site. Tags: SMB, merchants, security, payments, POS, credit/debit cards, authorization. Latest round: $56 million Debt (from Goldman Sachs). Total raised: $154.3 million ($98.3 million Equity, $56 million Debt). HQ: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Source: Crunchbase. million ($5.82

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Fintech Fundings: 26 Companies Raise $270 Million Second Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

The fintech sector attracted $266 million in new capital the second week of August. Digtial currency management for small businesses. Financial services price comparison portal. Bigstone Capital. Alt-credit score & risk management for financial institutions in emerging markets. Source: Finovate.

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Fintech Fundings: Companies Raise $ Million Week Ending Feb 26

Fintech Labs Insights

Although we saw one high-flying fintech unicorn crash to earth this week , the fintech sector continued to attract significant capital with 21 companies raising $214.8 FlexScore was bought by United Capital . Improving capital efficiency for derivatives trading. Loyalty card platform. Money transfer price comparisons .