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Is Stand-Alone The Future Of Digital Banking?

PYMNTS

As the world goes increasingly digital, banks are struggling to decide how they should package their digital service offerings. Should they fold digital banking services into their existing traditional brick-and-mortar accounts, or spin them off into stand-alone, digital-only entities? Why spin out?

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Grasshopper’s Shure on enhancing access to resources for startup founders

Bank Innovation

Grasshopper Bank, a New York City-based digital bank geared toward startups, is focusing on pain points for founders, who usually have a heightened awareness of user experiences.

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What Open Banking Means For China, Challenger Banks And SMBs

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Small businesses continue to embrace digital banking. At the same time, digital banks are looking to capitalize on their growing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer base, with open banking and bank-FinTech collaborations an important part of that strategy.

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SMB Funding Embraces The Open Banking Way

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Even so, as this week's exploration of bank-FinTech collaborations and open banking initiatives reveals, opportunities to add new revenue streams, improve product offerings and enhance the end-user experience are too promising to ignore. Poland's mBank Taps Treasury Pricing FinTech.

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Should your bank acquire a UX design firm?

Celent Banking

I was very intrigued and excited when I heard about Capital One’s acquisition of Adaptive Path. When was the last time you heard of a bank acquiring a design firm? This fresh thinking is exactly what is needed in the banking space. Creating a horizontal function can be beneficial to all parts of the bank.

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How To Better Served The Unbanked In Nigeria

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FairMoney recently raised $11 million in venture capital funding in a Series A round led by Flourish, a venture of The Omidyar Group, with DST Global and existing backers Newfund, Speedinvest and Le Studio VC also participating. There is no Pan-African digital bank,” Hainy said. “So Services Growth. That’s not all.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Digital banks. In an interview in 2013 , Founder and then-CEO Renaud Laplanche boasted that incumbent banks like Chase were “like Blockbuster Video” in a world in which tech and new lending models like LendingClub’s would bury them. Marcus is a digital consumer platform that includes lending and deposit-taking.

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