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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

PYMNTS

The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.

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Credit Unions Unite Behind Digital Banking

PYMNTS

With the possible exception of FinTechs that stand to gain from customer defections and perhaps some legacy banking competitors, no one is rooting against the CUs. That help is forthcoming, as in the case of the Central Bank of Ireland , which is changing regulations to favor more CU lending with higher limits.

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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

PYMNTS

As Mark Rockefeller, co-founder and chief executive officer of small business lending-as-a-service provider StreetShares , told PYMNTS in a recent interview, that pressure to digitize expands to credit unions and community banks in their SMB lending offerings, too, and do it profitably. The Open Banking Trajectory.

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Mastercard, Nationwide Partner To Serve Britain’s Small Businesses 

PYMNTS

million) in the latest round of funding from the Board of Banking Competition Remedies (BCR) Capability and Innovation Fund. The fund is designed to boost competition in business lending. . Banking disruption is moving through the U.K. Atom, a banking startup in the U.K. that caters to millennials, has raised £50M ($62.4

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Tackling the Fintech Threat: A Guide for Banks and Credit Unions

FICO

Tackling the Fintech Threat: A Guide for Banks and Credit Unions. What financial institutions need to compete with fintech threat disrupters. As FinTech funding rises to new record levels – $131.5 According to a 2022 report by Cornerstone Advisors , the percentage of Gen Z, Millennial, and Gen X consumers in the U.S.

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Credit Unions? Bid To Bridge The Challenger Bank Perception-vs.-Reality Gap

PYMNTS

Right now, at least as found recently in the PYMNTS/PSCU collaboration , “Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Challenger Banks Edition,” CUs face some competitive pressures. . As the survey of more than 4,000 CU members, CU leaders and FinTech executives showed, 41.4 They acquire a lending product, and then a digital banking platform.

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Gen Z, Millennials and COVID Fueling Rise in Hybrid Credit Card Alternatives

The Financial Brand

It's both a payment and lending challenge — banks must match fintechs' point of sale 'buy now, pay later' service or they'll lose share. The post Gen Z, Millennials and COVID Fueling Rise in Hybrid Credit Card Alternatives appeared first on The Financial Brand.