article thumbnail

KeyBank ups tech spend by $12M

BankInovation

KeyBank remained focused on expense management and improving its technology to stay competitive in the third quarter. The Cleveland-based bank’s noninterest expense increased to $1.1 billion in the quarter, up by 0.4% year over year, driven by an increase of $12 million in tech spend, according to its quarterly earnings report.

article thumbnail

Full-Service Branch Access Unaffected Despite Industry Consolidation

Banking Exchange

Report by the Federal Reserve of Cleveland studied whether bank consolidation had impacted customer access Retail Banking Financial Trends Duties Branch Technology/ATMs Customers Feature3 Feature Financial Research.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Questions With… KeyBank Consumer and Digital CIO Kim Snipes

BankInovation

Technology investment at KeyBank is nothing if not dynamic. The Cleveland-based bank had a digitally driven calendar year, partnering with Laurel Road for an online lending platform in March 2021 and acquiring payments fintech XUP Payments in November 2021.

article thumbnail

Rocket Trims IPO By 39 Pct From $3.3B To $2B After Investors Reject Valuation

PYMNTS

The 39 percent reduction came as investors rejected the company’s valuation, noting it should be priced as a consumer or financial company rather than a technology business, one of the sources said, according to Bloomberg. Last month, Gilbert sought an IPO for $3.3 Rocket describes itself as the largest retail mortgage lender in the U.S.

Cleveland 233
article thumbnail

Fed Sees Possible Path To ‘Direct Issuance’ Of Digital Dollars

PYMNTS

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said in a speech this week that a digital dollar could conceivably be a form of money transfer that would enable the Fed to disburse money to all individuals in America. Digital dollars could make the leap from concept to reality, but there might be a few ways to get there.

Cleveland 330
article thumbnail

Bahamas Launches Digital Sand Dollar; Adds To Rise Of Central Bank Digital Currencies

PYMNTS

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said in a speech in September that a digital dollar could conceivably be a form of money transfer that would enable the Fed to disburse money to all individuals in America (seemingly taking the approach that we are seeing in the Bahamas).

Cleveland 357
article thumbnail

Xealth Raises $14M In Series A

PYMNTS

New investors Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic and MemorialCare Innovation Fund joined McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, ResMed, Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ Venture), Providence Ventures, UPMC and Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin health network as participants in the round. . ”

Cleveland 100