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Challenger Banks Raise Record Funds To Take On Traditional FIs

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Digital banking startups are popular in Europe, dangling low fees and mobile apps to attract more customers. Challenger banks have raised $100 million worldwide in the second quarter and are the fastest-growing FinTechs, Lindsay Davis, a senior intelligence analyst at CB Insights, told the FT. .

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Seeking Banking Balance Between Physical And Digital

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Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi, to name a few, all scaled back their physical bank branch locations between 2012 and 2016, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Additionally, if recent trends are any indication, physical bank branches stand to lose a lot of ground in the near future.

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Seven Big Threats Facing Seven Big Tech And Payments Players This Halloween

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The motivation for that move was to create more of a direct relationship with the sellers in order to provide them with more services, including working capital and lower processing fees – fees, they say, that can be as much as 25 percent lower in some cases. It turned out to not be the case, for most of the adults living in the U.S.

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