PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has removed the choice and forced FIs and customers to interact via digital platforms, though, and brick-and-mortar branches have become auxiliary services with limited use for more complicated financial tasks for those who remain branch-dependent. Confronting Digital Banking Reality.

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JULY 24, 2020

It’s a model based on the concept of collaboration and cooperation, two ideals that have become instrumental in the financial services arena’s payments innovation efforts. As a CU with a global reach, UNFCU held digitization at the top of its priority list even before the pandemic, according to Thomas. As the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) is introducing an open banking policy to advance digital innovation in the financial services sector. Saudi Arabia’s central bank said the plan is for open banking to go live in the first half of 2022.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks' embrace of FinTech is often driven by consumers' growing demand for a more seamless and unified experience. Increasingly, treasurers are seeking intelligent solutions augmented by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) — and banks are turning outward to meet those needs. HighRadius & Commerce Bank.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - Before social media platform Facebook became a popular channel for digital banks to offer banking features to its customers, let’s not forget that FB was first and foremost an important advertising tool for banks to reach a younger audience. Take British challenger bank Starling Bank, for example.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

FinTechs are helping banks focus on the customer experience through accounts payable (AP) automation. told PYMNTS in an interview that banks foundationally value “the relationship they have with the customer” and “they understand the customer.” The core competency of banks is to loan money and move money forward to customers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

But as of 2020, it is a subject upon which seasoned experts can disagree, in a world where traditional banks and FinTechs are operating in parallel in the market – and, in many cases, are offering similar services for consumers. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue. Baird said. “As

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

For more community banks, the latter strategy can fast-track digitization initiatives. This week’s look at the latest bank-FinTech tie-ups shows Banking-as-a-Service and other FinTech players embracing smaller regional and community banks to elevate small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and corporate banking offerings.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The great digital shift is transforming credit cards into money management tools. Many of the partner processors working with Mastercard are also working to enable card products for FinTechs. The plastic cards, she noted, do not display the six-digit PAN, CVC2 or expiration dates (which boosts security, too).

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 12, 2020

The rush to be the best bank-type platform has created a crowded market, both in the business-to-business and direct-to-consumer fintech sectors. Investors are placing their bets on tools that will gain wide adoption, creating a high bar for founders and product developers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

Community banks have been working to innovate through collaborations with FinTechs. PYMNTS reported that those kinds of partnerships can often be faster than the bank innovating on its own.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

The banking industry faces many day-to-day business challenges, including competition with digitally native FinTechs and the ubiquitous social distancing restrictions brought on by the pandemic. Digital fraud’s scope is hard to overstate, yet banks are deploying emerging technologies to minimize its impact.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Online and mobile banking’s increasing popularity has driven many credit unions (CUs) to embrace self-service models, emphasizing ATMs, digital banking and other remote services, and reducing physical branches’ importance. Helping Themselves to Banking Services. Achieving the Self-Service Dream.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Collaboration and not competition, Visa’s Senior Vice President, Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos told Karen Webster in a discussion on the recent advancements and updates to Visa’s Fast Track program , is quite evident — particularly when one observes that a number of Visa’s partners are many that, on paper, might appear to be competitors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Banks need to innovate faster and further when it comes to the technology they use on their online platforms, as to stay one step ahead of bad actors with access to the same technology. Banks need to make sure they’re using tech in ways that keep the fraudsters out, but don’t send customers looking for another service.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Monzo, a digital bank out of London, wants to expand past just mobile-based personal banking customers to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). . You use so much software, so many different tools and systems that it’s hard to keep up,” the company said. the company said in a blog post on Monday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Just because businesses are interested and willing to adopt payments innovations doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. Other key players in the adoption curve include government entities and financial institutions, says Bottomline Technologies Managing Director of Digital Banking Norm DeLuca. We do a lot of business in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

Based in Singapore, Ezyhaul plans to expand its logistics and freight management technologies across South Asia and invest in technological innovation as it goes after a plug-and-play model of its platform. Targeting the freelancer and small business space, FinTech startup Sensibill announced $31.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For all of the innovation that's occurred in the banking landscape, it's often consumers – not corporates – that benefit from the latest technologies. Even friction within the corporate customer onboarding process can threaten a bank's ability to adequately service a business, according to Dux. The Drive To Upgrade.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Solutions such as Kubernetes and other containers — products that allow banks to more easily categorize, store and scale software and applications on the cloud — could therefore play crucial roles in banking’s digital future. Around The Cloud Banking World. About The Tracker.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

As the financial services space focuses on digitizing offerings for their small business customers, much of these efforts are targeting online banking portals accessed via desktop. Today, he explained, small businesses often do the bare minimum to manage finances, despite the rise in FinTech platforms and products available to them.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 7, 2023

The launch of Charlie points to an underserved niche in banking: older adults. In mid-May, a digital bank account for the 62+ crowd debuted in the United States. It’s only a matter of time for retirees to get a rewrite of digital banking. Already, older generations are using mobile banking and it’s on the rise.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

It’s not that banks don’t want to go more digital and mobile, he said. The problem often stems from the environment in which they are operating — one that can put the brakes on innovation, even when innovation is key to thriving. Expectations for digital services aren’t being shaped by our industry,” Owens told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Banking is no longer just for traditional FIs, thanks to open banking’s spread. Digital banking development is poised to explode in Singapore, where legacy institutions have traditionally dominated. The landscape also means traditional banks are not particularly motivated to upgrade their platforms or technologies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Fraudsters are finding new ways to slip past technological defenses, which leaves banks constantly upgrading the tools used to keep them out. In the latest Digital Banking Tracker™ , PYMNTS examines how banks are innovating to address these security vulnerabilities. Around the Digital Banking World.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Asian Development Bank’ s striking statistic — a $1.5 trillion gap in global trade finance — continues to be used as a driver of FinTech innovation as technology startups look for ways to address friction in global trade financing. Standard Chartered And Traydstream. 3) a partnership with Traydstream. ADCB And dltledgers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

“FIs already using cloud-enabled infrastructure had an advantage in the immediate response phase,” Martin Frick , managing director of APAC at Temenos, told PYMNTS in the July Digital Banks And The Power Of The Cloud Tracker® done in collaboration with NuoDB. A new debate arising from this era is, these days, “What is a bank?”. “I

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Now, more than ever, banks must be smarter and faster. Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. Drivers for Operational Innovation. In this context, improving efficiency is mandatory.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

With more consumers than ever interested in fulfilling all their financial needs on mobile, both legacy banks and FinTech firms are focusing on creating digital-only banking services, designed to catch and keep customers using their smartphones to bank. Around the Digital Banking World.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Customer satisfaction is critical in any industry, and that typically means providing convenient access to digital tools. The challenger bank has run on a cloud banking model since its 2012 launch and is available for business and consumer use in 30 European markets, including Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

In an environment in which connecting small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to vital financial services and products is more imperative than ever, the world of SMB banking and FinTech is fostering an ecosystem of collaboration to expand availability. Orange Bank Acquires Anytime.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Digital banks. Digital Banks.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. FIs Or FinTechs: Who Will Power Banking’s Big Digital Shift? The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years.

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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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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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