Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

As Brexit inches closer to its culmination date of March 2019, one unanswered question from the impending exit from the EU is will London still be seen as the ‘ capital of Fintech ” in Europe? The UK is currently facing its most serious challenge so far as the fintech hub of Europe. and Europe, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. Whether it’s our commitment to transparency, our flexible payment terms, our user-friendly experience, or our expanding universe of retail partners, Sezzle is definitely gaining traction as the marquee ‘buy now pay, later’ solution in the U.S.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

It’s in this industry climate that smaller, community banks see an opportunity, and competition is quickly heating up to fill the gaps in micro-business banking. They make the engine run,” said Mike Butler, CEO of community FI Radius Bank. “We tend to overthink it.” “But they have to want it.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Then Apple came and totally changed the definition of what a great mobile experience really was. I think that definition of five keeps changing. He added that banks can take their cue on what does and doesn’t work by watching what FinTechs do. They were pretty good for what they did,” he said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"Overall, it's positive that business owners now have a voice, although we'll see predatory lenders making adjustments over time and will definitely find a way to maneuver around it," said James. This could be an opportune moment in the history of FinTech and alternative lenders, however. It's a juggling act.".

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Nations’ paths toward real-time payments ubiquity therefore depend on FIs, FinTechs and other players adopting these systems and then extending access to other such firms. PYMNTS recently spoke with Jesse Honigberg , technology chief of staff at community bank Cross River , to discuss how the U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

SWIFT is the latest FinTech player to perk up at the thought of using distributed ledger technology for business transactions. In an announcement on Thursday (Sept.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 21, 2018

Treasury recommends that this section be interpreted so that “third parties properly authorized by consumers, including data aggregators and consumer fintech application providers, fall within the definition of ‘consumer’… for the purpose of obtaining access to financial account and transaction data.”.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 15, 2019

The classic definition has three parts. Feature Management Technology Risk Management AML & Fraud Tech Management Cyberfraud/ID Theft Feature3 Fintech. What is money?

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Gonzobanker

JULY 6, 2021

It has become crystal clear that digital transformation is now the largest technology initiative for regional and community financial institutions. Maybe this is the new reality for community bankers, but Cornerstone Advisors is seeing little evidence that they’re serious about implementing a comprehensive digital strategy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

million over the course of the next three years to build up a FinTech hub in Charlotte. Here is an except of the conversation: PYMNTS: Can you describe your personal and/or professional experience with the tech community in Charlotte? As we reported about three weeks ago, Bank of America has announced its plans to invest $1.5

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 13, 2019

There are definitely pluses and minuses to both the consumer and the banks in terms of safety and credit Consumer Credit Financial Research Feature Financial Trends Risk Management Security Operational Risk Credit Risk Cyberfraud/ID Theft Feature3 Fintech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Another delivery of a medical prescription arrived at a nearby retirement community for a second customer. We see big potential in drone delivery in rural communities where life-saving medications are needed and consumers at times cannot conveniently access one of our stores.”. UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward Inc.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 18, 2018

One way to look at a problem: the definition stage and the solution stage Bank Performance The Economy Financial Research Human Resources Feature Management Financial Trends Retail Banking Technology Big Data Feature3 Survival Strategies Fintech.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 17, 2022

For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. Community banks, regional players, and credit unions are all in the fight of their lifetime with the need to transform their business. Tech companies trying to support a bank stack have no easy task.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2018

At least 35 percent of credit unions, commercial banks and community banks — including 40 percent of the top-performing FIs — cited integrating legacy technology with new innovations as the biggest hindrance to innovation. All of these payment systems are requesting, consuming and producing data in very different ways,” Parker explained.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The question applies to financial institutions of all sizes and is especially germane to smaller banks and credit unions, firms which do not have the deep pockets or the technology of larger banking compadres and FinTechs. explained there is wide variation in the definition of innovation.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 12, 2014

Fintech (note 1) has been part of YC from the beginning. The first class (Summer 2005) included one fintech startup, TextPayMe, among the eight companies. But as YC grew from 2005 to 2009, the number of fintech companies stayed at roughly 1 per year. You are almost guaranteed a multi-million funding. During the past 4.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

Bank, host hackathons to motivate the developer community to build these tools. The participants were encouraged to develop solutions aimed at helping the small business community. But it’s definitely a benefit-driver.”. Some institutions, like U.S. Bank’s “Think Big, Hack Small” hackathon. At this event, U.S.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Well, it definitely speaks with the wallet about what’s important. Meanwhile, some digital-only focused tech and fintech companies have been on a market cap rocket ride. The big question is how Terafina is managed and deployed with a $500 million community bank or credit union. What’s a few billion among friends, GonzoBankers ?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C. With clearance to move forward with its plans, the community banking landscape will see its first new industry player in years. have emerged to do.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Along with the FDIC’s final rule regarding brokered deposits , the adoption of the final rule represents a significant development for fintech companies and other commercial companies seeking to establish ILCs. an ILC charter can be a viable alternative to the OCC’s fintech charter, which has been stalled by litigation.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 25, 2020

Some of you are working on building a new Fintech company, using the leverage of Silicon Valley to remake an economic order under new rules. And banks and fintechs are realizing that packaging their products into APIs and opening up to digital brands is a life-saving growth strategy. Whereas Fintech is a bridge?—?trying

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, Dave Gilbert, founder and chief executive officer of SMB alternative lending firm National Funding , said he’s seen a trend of growing traction within the small business community. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In addition to national policy, Moon added that FinTech and payments innovation will undoubtedly play a role in helping the financial services community achieve these improvements. Today China’s payments landscape is a very dynamic one,” he said.

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Celent Banking

APRIL 7, 2016

While FBI Director James Comey has been mum on the details, some in the IT security community have speculated that the new tool employs a so-called “brute force attack” on the iPhone by sequentially guessing the device’s passcode until the device unlocks itself.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2016

The co-founder of the FinTech firm Kabbage did something unusual when he found himself with a box full of broken bathroom tiles that were about to put him off schedule by three days. And Roadie accepts a pretty expansive definition of “stuff.” He further noted, “I love the way we take care of the community.

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Jessica Ellerm

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

What this represents should not be taken lightly by the established banking community. Designed to strip out inefficiencies in managing bill payments through a tight integration with Xero, we now face the task of getting the Smart Account into the hands of the Australian small business community.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The economy is definitely humming, but most people are still living paycheck to paycheck and facing financial stress.” The rising rates have not only made debt more expensive, but they have been a weight on loan growth across both bank and FinTech lending platforms in the back half of the year. The Two Faces Of Consumer Credit.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. Total dollars raised, $6.3

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 11, 2016

Just 30 hours in Hong Kong may not have been enough to explore all that the city has to offer, but we didn’t need much more to see and experience the vibrant fintech community. The trip was definitely a “hot” one – hot in both humidity and in witnessing the booming fintech scene.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2017

“I definitely think they want to [adequately meet SMEs’ needs],” he said. But we definitely see an appetite in the banks to provide better, more suitable services to their SME clients.” As APAC banks work to do that, Ibos said he sees a pattern in the region also seen in other markets: FinTech collaboration.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 1, 2017

Our Foundation’s key differentiation is definitely the open source + open standards combination we can bring to the financial services industry on a pervasive technology like the Symphony platform. I have been in the open source software business for about 15 years now, across Italy, Netherlands, UK and the United States.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

There’s a lot to say about the overlap of Fintech and blockchain, but let’s find the very edge of the frontier and focus right there. If you withdraw your Ether, you get charged an interest rate determined by an open governance community. all Fintech unicorns?—?that It’s like watching Mint.com emerge in 2007.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In a panel discussion with Karen Webster, six payments, banking and FinTech executives weighed in on the very nature of change that is transforming treasury banking and corporate clients in real time. The general things everybody wants — transparency, for example, or lower cost structures — are definitely on the map.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

That is definitely the secret sauce, relative to speed and ease of integration, because corporates can disburse payments digitally and reconcile them through their systems as though they sent a check,” said Reed. Fed Forms FedNow Community. Collaborators Develop New B2B Payment Rail In Pakistan.

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