PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) are performing well as the new decade dawns, with a recent study finding that CUs increased their loan originations by 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q4 2019. Though still strong, this industry growth has slowed in recent years, with another survey finding that total loans only increased by 6.6 percent in 2019, compared to 10.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2019

Depending on where you look, the chasm yawns wide when it comes to innovating with new technologies or features. In a PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster, Joe DeRosa, EVP of Global Sales at i2c , discussed the findings of the July 2019 Innovation Readiness Playbook , subtitled “Leveling the Playing Field for Different-Sized FIs.”

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Chris Skinner

JULY 19, 2017

I just attended an EFMA conference where the opening presentation talked about the most innovative banks in the world. KBC’s Digital Trade Chain KBC’s Digital Trade Chain application is a digital platform for managing, tracking and protecting domestic and international trade transactions using a shared ledger.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Efforts in the Middle East by banks and other financial institutions to embrace FinTech are on the rise. As reported from Daily News Egypt , a consortium of banks in the region expects a number of FIs, including those in Egypt, to embrace FinTech. Outside U.S.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 25, 2017

Millennials are in the driver’s seat of innovation. If you’re in fintech, you’ve probably heard that statement more than once. But a new study from FIS, released this week, suggests that millennials are not as unique as many think — at least in terms of financial service preferences.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Banks continue their digital transformation journey to create new business models to satisfy today’s demanding customers. How do banks prepare for this new reality? For Bradesco, a large Brazilian bank, NEXT is the answer. Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

In the July Digital-First Banking Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of digital-first banking, including the long-lasting effects brought on by the pandemic, the shifting attitudes surrounding ATM use, and how the digital banking development field is reaping dividends from the financial industry’s sea change.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

New Zealand is a country that can be easy to overlook when it comes to FinTech. Open Banking. These are indeed exciting times for FinTech, payments and financial services in New Zealand. Open Banking stands as one recent example. Open Banking will create the infrastructure for innovation,” van Dam said.

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BankInovation

APRIL 5, 2022

The latest EFMA-Infosys Finacle study reveals that — thanks to their accelerated digital transformation during the pandemic — incumbent banks are showing greater innovation maturity today than they did a year ago. Incumbent banks have been seriously disrupted by big tech and fintechs in recent years.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Luckily for the banks, there are many more of the latter than the former.” – Bank Innovation. Recent fintech deals across digital, lending, payments and infrastructure are telling a big story. So here’s the follow-the-money skinny on recent fintech deals—and what it says about what’s likely to come next.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

In the May edition of the Digital Banks And The Power Of The Cloud Tracker , PYMNTS examines how both legacy and challenger FIs are using cloud technologies to enhance their online offerings. Why Cloud Computing Is Critical To Banking Innovation. Examining The Legacy Infrastructure Challenges Hampering Cloud Innovation.

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Digital Banking Innovation Online Technology 230

PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

The global financial space has been severely impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines preventing customers from visiting bank branches to access the services they need. Developments From Around The World Of Digital-First Banking.

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NCR

MARCH 12, 2018

Some of the most significant recent trends in financial services – such as the ongoing growth of the mobile channel and the expansion of the fintech market – have demonstrated that the evolution of the industry is being driven by technology. Image: chombosan via iStock.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 10, 2016

As my readers will know, I regularly interview innovators of start-ups and banks of how they see the world. These interviews constitute a third of the ValueWeb and Digital Bank books. In the interests of maintaining these case studies, as I find them interesting, I recently met Ben Milne, Founder and CEO of Dwolla.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Money laundering has always troubled financial institutions, but today’s digital banking system creates additional complexities as fraudsters around the world take advantage of financial technologies. According to a KPMG study , 63 percent of financial institutions use transaction monitoring based on rules and machine learning.

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Compliance Fraud Study Digital Banking 123

Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

After studying law at Oxford, he went back to business and is now Co-Founder and CEO of digital bank Monzo. And then, GoCardless in 2011, we founded it, myself and my two co-founders, Matt and Hiroki, and I was there for almost three years, and that was my first experience with FinTech. What really stands Monzo apart?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Back then, FinTechs asked for forgiveness instead of permission, rushing headlong into markets, disrupting them and operating in newly invented spheres of finance that regulators barely understood. The party always ends, however, and governments have caught up to all that wild innovation. Now, they’re laying down the law.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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America Regional Regulation Fintech 168

Chris Skinner

MARCH 30, 2016

There are a number of hotbeds for innovation in finance – London, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley – may all spring to mind to begin with … but what about Berlin and Munich? Two are full banks with banking … Yes, Berlin is showing some interesting true colours with three standout start-ups: Fidor, NUMBER26 and solaris.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Consumers have noticed the rising levels of fraud in digital banking, and they are not pleased. In fact, one recent study found that 71.2 Around the Digital Banking World. Regulators as well as banks are searching for ways to keep launderers and other fraudsters out of online banking.

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Fraud Digital Banking Strategy Security 126

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

We have a deep dive into real-time payments and news on Visa ‘s FinTech play with Plaid and insight into buy now, pay later (BNPL). FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid. Goldman Sachs Group last week debuted its long-awaited app that will integrate with the financial giant’s digital bank Marcus.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this article, we detail our thoughts and the trends we saw last week in Las Vegas from a banking perspective in hopes of giving you the flavor and insight from the conference without you having to walk 10 miles per day and listen to endless vendor pitches. Below is a breakdown of all 300 sessions, less the demos and sales pitches.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 15, 2024

In the fintech space, only Fintech Meetup , launched in 2021, has reached critical mass this decade. Last week’s event in Las Vegas attracted a self-reported 4,000 attendees and was the talk of the fintech pods and Substacks the last few weeks. The pandemic slowed the introduction of new events.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

The details are offered in Building a Better App: Banks and the Innovation Imperative Report , a collaboration between PYMNTS and Ondot Systems, the Silicon Valley-based FinTech.

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Survey Cards Millennials ATM 183

PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

Growth in financial institutions’ (FIs) investment in AI comes as banks look to streamline their operational costs. A recent study estimated that investment in AI could result in a 22 percent reduction in operational costs at FIs, collectively saving them as much as $1 trillion by 2030. Around The Digital Banking World.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Especially their brick-and-mortar footprints tied to the digital branch. Right now, at least as found recently in the PYMNTS/PSCU collaboration , “Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Challenger Banks Edition,” CUs face some competitive pressures. . percent believe challenger banks will be competitive threats in the coming years.

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Digital Banking Millennials Lending Marketing 133

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

So it is with financial services – and so it is, specifically, with innovation within financial services. After all, ready or not, demand comes for faster payments, for easier onboarding, for digital wallets and security, above all else. The study found the portion of FIs that completed innovations early in 2018 stood at 26.7

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Innovation Fintech Survey Customer Experience 119

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The ongoing pandemic has caused many regulators in the MENA region to examine the digital and open banking infrastructure they have in place. The aim of doing so is to create a more robust framework for digital banking. The country’s Data Protection Law was announced in 2019 and officially came into effect in July 2020.

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Online Report Payments Regulation 151

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Banks and legacy financial institutions (FIs) might be wise to study what disruptive technologies recently did to the print publishing industry, taxi cabs, network TV, and a host of other businesses that were disintermediated with little to no warning in recent years.

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Mobile Cards social media Survey 153

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Headlines are filled with reports of service outages and data breaches , and both banks and consumers are contending with rising fraud concerns as digital banking takes off. Fraud threatens everyone, yet customers rely on their banks for protection. The Technology Gap That Fosters Fraudsters.

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Technology Fraud Data Security 142

NCR

JULY 6, 2017

A new study has revealed the extent to which consumers around the world are embracing emerging financial services providers, with one in three digitally-active citizens now using fintech solutions on a regular basis. However, some developed markets are also showing strong interest in fintechs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Mobile and online banking’s prevalence has reduced physical branches’ importance, but these brick-and-mortar establishments are still vital to customers’ financial lives. Even millennials , who heavily lean on remote banking, still visit physical bank locations for more complex functions, such as loan applications. million.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

I think this is just another layer of motivation and opportunity for legacy FIs to fulfill their own digital transformation agendas, take them seriously and make it happen.”. Open Banking. One spur toward digital innovation, for collaboration and cross-pollination for FIs, comes via open banking.

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Digital Banking UX Online Innovation 160

Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

I’m making a presentation on cybersecurity this week at our Nordic Finance Innovation meetings. This meant preparing a few new slides from scratch as I don’t have a set deck for cybercrime, and sat and started ideas just as the news dropped about the Equifax breach.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

as they upgrade their online data and financial rules to support global digital banking innovations. Banks and merchants may also need to confront outmoded perceptions of Chinese cybersecurity and banking laws and be aware of the government’s role in enforcing such rules. The law is still ambiguous.

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Regulation Policies Data Compliance 160

Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But some things do change, and according to Cornerstone Advisors’ 2021 What’s Going On In Banking study, the change in three priorities signal a shift in how FIs are managing technology: 1. In addition, there are some concerns regarding the effectiveness of FIs’ fintech partnerships. Improving efficiency.

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Lending Fintech Technology System 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. In fact, according to our recent study, they come in dead last.

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