Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Financial technology startups will enter the next decade with a little more street cred than the last time around. Nearly 60 upstarts focusing on financial services — from Stripe Inc. to Chime Inc. to Plaid Inc. — have garnered valuations of more than $1 billion in recent years, according to CB Insights.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The parameters around how consumer financial information should be shared with third-party apps and platforms was the subject of debate at an industry forum organized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This week, digital banking startup Varo received approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a significant milestone in the company’s three-year quest to become a bank.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 20, 2020

Singapore is becoming a haven for e-commerce companies looking to get into banking in Asian markets. In 2019, the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced it would issue three digital wholesale bank licenses and two digital full bank licenses, challenging Singapore’s legacy financial institutions, CNBC reported.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Digital banking brand Varo has 1 million customers, and is pushing ahead with plans to become a nationally-chartered bank early next year, CEO Colin Walsh told Bank Innovation Tuesday.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 11, 2020

At Royal Media, Bank Innovation‘s publisher, we take great pride in the value of our exceptional industry conferences and the effort we put into their production. We rightly view our more than a dozen annual conferences as crucial opportunities for business development in our industries.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Albert Chang, counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s innovation office, said […]. Following a recent backlash resulting from allegedly discriminatory underwriting methods for the Apple Card, lenders’ moves are facing scrutiny from regulators.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

For Brice Luetkemeyer, president and CEO of Bank of St. Elizabeth, a Missouri-based community bank with $150 million in assets, investing in a core banking startup is critical for its future. Together with a group of other community banks, Bank of St. Elizabeth recently invested in Neocova, a St.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 6, 2020

Singapore has received “strong interest” in its effort to open up the banking industry to fresh competition after 21 groups made bids for digital licenses, the financial regulator said.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The Clearing House (TCH) showed encouraging progress for the digital financial ecosystem last month when they proposed their model financial data sharing agreement. Kabbage and Plaid support simple and uniform rules for data sharing.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Despite a recent legal challenge, Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said the regulator will continue to advocate for passage of the OCC’s special purpose fintech charter. At the RegTech 2019 conference in New York on Tuesday, he reiterated the case for having nonbanks that offer banking services under regulatory oversight.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 28, 2019

based money transfer startup TransferWise is going beyond cheeky ads to spread its message of foreign exchange fee transparency. It’s taking its position to regulators around the world in an effort to change how the industry operates. The eight-year-old company, which is reportedly valued at $3.8

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Bank Innovation

JULY 26, 2019

In this episode, Suman Bhattacharyya, deputy editor of Bank Innovation, discusses the following news developments: How Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and other lawmakers are advocating for the U.S. Welcome to the latest episode of our weekly wrap video series, for the week ending July 26, 2019.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Robinhood is getting a new board member: Dan Gallagher, a former commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The addition comes almost a year after a planned Robinhood checking account product was torpedoed by regulatory and insurance questions.

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has taken steps to promote fintech partnerships and diversity and inclusion within the financial services industry, both internally at the FDIC and among the institutions it regulates, FDIC Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams said during the LendIt Fintech USA 2020 conference Wednesday.

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BankInovation

JULY 9, 2020

Big banks are taking inspiration from government intelligence agencies when it comes to combating cybersecurity threats as command centers become the standard, according to Bill Stewart, partner at fintech consultancy Capco. “If If you’re a large [financial institution], for sure you have it.

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BankInovation

JULY 31, 2020

Varo Money officially announced today it is shedding the “banking startup” title, as the company has finally received its banking charter after a three-year journey. Whether more fintechs will follow suit remains to be seen. “A

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BankInovation

JULY 31, 2020

After a three-year saga, Varo Money finally has its bank charter. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve all signed off on Varo Bank N.A., the bank announced today. This is a thrilling milestone for Varo, as the bank charter has been a core part […].

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has taken steps to promote fintech partnerships and diversity and inclusion within the financial services industry, both internally at the FDIC and among the institutions it regulates, FDIC Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams said during the LendIt Fintech USA 2020 conference Wednesday.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

We all say the customer comes first, but our actions around innovation often put cost, compliance, or our present way of doing business first. In other words, can the technology be leveraged across departments and across products?

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The Financial Brand

APRIL 19, 2021

Lengthy time-to-market delays put traditional financial institutions at a competitive disadvantage. Here's how to turn that around. The post Three Things That Thwart Digital Banking Product Development appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Andrew just needs to review the account and forward on to compliance for their review. Andrew can snooze until Compliance has done their work so his workspace is not cluttered. Built a workflow for the bank so the bank can approve payment and see all compliance and tax information. Their application is middleware.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

Key people: Sean Belka, Head of Fidelity Labs; Katie Chase, Head of Strategy, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. Working with FCAT, the charity searched for third-party vendors and iterated testing on compliance with legal and regulatory requirements to be able to accept Bitcoin. PWC — Center for Technology and Innovation (CTI).

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