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Banking As A Service — Bring Corporates Into The Digital Age

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Banking as a Service (BaaS) is poised to change the end user experience of corporates as they navigate the daily challenges of cash flow management, supply chain activity and the need to become digital-first. Elsewhere, StreetShares raised $10 million to expand small business lending technology for banks and credit unions.

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BBVA On Google, Digital Banking And The Rise Of The ‘Everyday App’

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Those ecosystems will leverage the trust that consumers have placed in traditional financial industry players and tech companies of all sizes – including Big Tech , of course. In this way, Google gets new users for its Pay offering , and the banks get new customers and strengthen their respective brands. Ready For The Digital Shift.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Blockchain, of course, isn’t only to blame. Marketplace Lending. Blockchain. Digital banks. Blockchain.

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Amid Blockchain And Robotics Hype, Corporate Lenders Still Start With The Cloud

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It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018.

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How To Better Served The Unbanked In Nigeria

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That can be easier said than done, of course, but in a new PYMNTS discussion with Karen Webster, Laurin Nabuko Hainy, founder and CEO at FairMoney , gave a tour of the emerging payments landscape in Nigeria and offered lessons that can be applied to other developing markets. Nigerian banks don’t like to lend,” Hainy said.

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How Banks Can Tap Trust As Their Foundation For Innovation

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That lack of physical access has been a major stumbling block for FinTechs as they’ve tried to move from offering their customers a specific financial service – such as lending, saving or investing – toward becoming their primary financial services relationship. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

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Kabbage is a data and technology platform that enables real-time lending. Our focus has always been on user experience and for them to get capital in less than ten minutes. The goal of all that money is, of course, to lend to small business owners. To date, the business has provided over $2.5