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RegTech and Insurance Remain Hot with Seed-Stage VCs

Bank Innovation

Compliance, insurance, and workflow solutions: these are the most interesting areas for a seed-stage fintech investor right now. Chris Fortunato, principal at KEC Ventures, named compliance and insurance as two of his biggest current focuses during Bank Innovation’s “For the Love of Fintech” meetup yesterday.

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Inside The FIS Innovation Process With EVP Bruce Lowthers

PYMNTS

The basis of innovation is not the desire to create something new or even the inspiration to do so. Innovation occurs where there is a problem and a person with the tools to solve it. Anyone can have a good idea,” Lowthers said; innovation is about what you do with it. PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why?

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The Middle Market’s Expense Management Conundrum

PYMNTS

There are two key focuses for mid-market expense management tools, he said: infrastructure and regulatory compliance. ” Perhaps one of the biggest challenges for this space is that the exact definition of the middle market isn’t exactly clear. “We are more than welcoming them.”

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In B2B Payments, Speed Is Only Part Of The Package

PYMNTS

And, much to the relief of corporates, the continuing focus on B2B payments innovation. We are definitely seeing more innovation in the cross-border B2B space in the last two years than we have ever before,” he recently told PYMNTS. “We The evolution of blockchain-based services. Collaboration between FinTechs and banks.

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How To Live Forever In The Financial Services Space

PYMNTS

Innovation can sometimes be seen as a solution looking for a problem, but it’s time to stop thinking of technology as bells and whistles and start looking at it as a necessary element of doing business for a changing consumer base – and up against a changing landscape of challenges and threats. How do you manage security and risk?

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Community Banks, Where Moving Beyond Interest Income Is In The (Credit) Cards

PYMNTS

The community banking model is based on customer relationships and the allocation of capital and extending loans. We have definitely seen instances where community banks are innovating to meet the unique needs of their customer base,” he told PYMNTS.

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Using The OODA Loop For Faster Bank Decision Making

South State Correspondent

As the pace of banking innovation speeds up, the OODA Loop, and its supporting concepts, can help a bank’s management team have a common framework to make decisions faster and more effectively. It is the ability to prioritize and allocate the proper resources – time and capital – to achieve the objective.

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