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The Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate

PYMNTS

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Do FIs want to navigate card programs through that?”.

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Personalization And Contextual Banking Will Drive The Consumerization Of B2B Payments

PYMNTS

They’ve gotten used to what Shields termed “ease of use and delightful user experience” — being able to find and buy what they want using any number of payments options. Those partnerships also can open up opportunities for FinTechs, said Shields. Those executives will expect improved risk management services from their banks.

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Commoditization, Optimization or Transformation: What’s in Your Core Wallet?

Gonzobanker

It’s reimagining the financial institution’s processes from a customer, efficiency, and risk management perspective without being constrained by dated technology or the old way of doing things. As this article points out, a core system replacement may not be in the cards for every institution. At least, not right now.

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The Future of Zapp and Other Musings on MasterCard and VocaLink

Celent Banking

At Celent, we have been talking about the "battle of rails" in payments, i.e. between pull-based payments running on the cards infrastructure, and push-based payments, such as Zapp, built on top of new faster/ real-time payment networks. As I discussed in another recent blog , Visa controls 97% of the debit card market in the UK.

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How Have the Finovate Best of Show Winners Fared?

Fintech Labs Insights

It was a hassle, but I’m so glad we started the “Best of Show” tradition because it became a signature part of the Finovate experience, in no small part because of the $5 Starbucks card attendees received each day for voting. And many of those winners have gone on to become successful fintech companies or be acquired by one.

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FIs Embrace FinTech Collabs With An Eye On Functionality

PYMNTS

This week’s look at the latest open banking and bank-FinTech collaborative initiatives reveals financial services firms continue to focus on elevated functionality, with data security seemingly more of a background priority. Amex Joins Revolut’s Open Banking Platform. American Express is joining the open banking platform of U.K.

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

Lex Sokolin

You would not be able to design this user experience, nor this attention platform without a technology footprint that began with cloud computing and the Internet. the narrow ambition of banking-as-a-service), and more the data, media, and e-commerce experience of Amazon and Facebook with financial product monetization.