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Transferwise’s Käärmann: User Experience And Speed Matter Just As Much As Fees

CB Insights

Can’t make the Future of Fintech conference? High fees and bad customer experience were taken for granted in the remittance space for a long time, said Kristo Käärmann, CEO of Transferwise, who experienced the frustrations of … Continued. Sign up to watch the livestream.

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Banks Are Missing The Point—Alternative Lending Is About More Than User Experience

CB Insights

Can’t make the Future of Fintech conference? Alternative lending platforms deliver an automated end-to-end loan experience from application and origination to underwriting and servicing. Sign up to watch the livestream. Essentially, these kinds of companies sit at the intersection of … Continued.

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SAP Ariba Pulls Bot Hype Into Procurement

PYMNTS

B2B FinTech is taking advantage of bot technology across use-cases, from SME banking to accounting. We are investing in these types of applications and technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver a next-generation user experience for our customers that promises to transform procurement as we know it.”.

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B2B2C off!

Chris Skinner

So I’m in a conference that’s talking all the time about B2B2C models. I guess that’s because there are a lot of FinTech startups focused on the B2B2C structures like Leveris, Thought Machine, Solaris, RailsBank, ClearBank, CBW and more. But these are not B2B2C structures. The people talked B2B2C have got that wrong.

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Tencent WeChat and WeChat Pay

Chris Skinner

WECHAT KEY TRENDS REPORT 2017 MATTHEW BRENNAN CHINA CHANNEL THIS PRESENTATION IS ADAPTED FROM A KEYNOTE SPEECH DELIVERED AT CHINA CONNECT CONFERENCE IN PARIS ON MARCH 2ND 2017 BREAKING NEWS: SLUGGISH GROWTH FOR WECHAT IS WECHAT STILL COOL? EVERYTHING IS WITH USER VALUE IN MIND. THE VALUE TO THE USER IS THE FIRST PRIORITY.”

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Mini-Silos: The Opportunity Fintechs Bring to Banks

ZootBlog

It is well known that silos have long prevented banks from achieving the ideal customer experience, because they create a fragmented user experience. An executive from Ally Bank made an interesting observation at a recent industry conference. Fintech companies can only disrupt so much.

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Putting smart to work: Raising Cora

Insights on Business

At IBM Think, the premier business and technology conference, the main theme is “mankind + machine,” and during the Wednesday morning session with Ian Hurst and Sarah Diamond, IBM General Managers of Banking and Financial Markets, and Naresh Vyas, Royal Bank of Scotland Head of Solutions, that theme was on full display. Lastly, Ms.