PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

InstaReM is currently preparing to apply for one of five (two retail, three wholesale) digital banking licenses that the city-state of Singapore announced it would be issuing earlier this month. Not without uses, not unimportant and a transitional step into the market for some consumers, but also not really a next-level innovation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

And according to five observers across the spectrum of traditional financial institutions (FIs), payment networks and digital-only banks, opportunities are there for digital-first and hybrid models alike to succeed — so long as they harbor a relentless focus on identifying and solving customer problems.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not easy being small — especially in business, and often when it comes to banking and payments. The bigger players take up more space at the table, and, for various reasons, often face fewer barriers to market entry and expansion than small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However, that’s changing. New Venture.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Trust in Banks. Or, as a recent CNBC article put it, quoting a source, “a mass extinction event.”.

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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. APIs and open banking growth. The impact these digital licenses could have on Singapore cannot be understated.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One of the biggest tests for FinTech in the coming years is how well it can serve businesses that don’t have easy or efficient access to credit. As Martins said, the country’s financial system and central bank have restrictive rules about what types of collateral — or “leverage” — businesses can offer when seeking loans.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

This strategic partnership will facilitate workers in this segment with a bank account and empowering them [with] digital banking [solutions] as well as financial security. It’s our constant aim at NPCI to reach out to the vast unbanked population with technology innovation,” said Kunal Kalawatia, head of marketing at NPCI.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

In the latest Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations , PYMNTS analyzes the international impact of the regulations, as well as how banks, merchants and regulators are adapting to Open Banking and security protection rules of their own as developments emerge in Europe. Open Banking And The Race To Enter Singapore.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

Legacy banks have their work cut out for them if they want to survive another century as key players in the digital banking world. This is driving legacy banks to take a closer look at their own products and strategies, with many rising to the challenge. Around the Digital Banking World. About the Tracker.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 12, 2017

Further to my recent trip to Pakistan Business Recorder (their version of The Financial Times) interviewed me in depth about what is happening in FinTech. Chris Skinner: The world’s leading-edge regulatory bodies are creating lighter regulations than one required for a full banking license. CS: That is one of the main differences.

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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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Celent Banking

APRIL 25, 2016

In a recent Celent survey 100% of the participants recognized that a scenario where all financial products get digitized needs to be addressed sometime in the next 7 years and 59% of them believe it needs to be addressed immediately. Threat of fintechs is also a reality. They launched in March of this year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

Persuading customers to choose one bank over another is never an easy task, and it’s only become more challenging in the saturated digital banking space. Around the Digital Banking World. About the Tracker.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In the February edition of the Digital Banking Tracker , a Feedzai Collaboration, PYMNTS explores the latest developments surrounding AI and machine learning in the financial services space. Around the Digital Banking world. Can AI help consumers become smarter spenders? Several industry players seem to think so.

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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

MAY 4, 2016

In the latest installment of our Commander-in-Chief series, Glen Fossella, EVP of Enterprise Growth at Urban FT , explains why spurring growth starts with showing the value in transforming digital banking into a service customers can’t live without. PYMNTS: What does a day in the life of a chief growth officer look like? Glen Fossella.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

After financial startup Loot reportedly went into administration in May, Loot Founder Ollie Purdue is reportedly becoming a part of a digital bank being developed by RBS-owned Natwest called Bó. According to reports, Purdue is to be accompanied by other team members from Loot across marketing, product and design areas.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The flexibility, speed and convenience that characterizes consumer payments is steadily making inroads into the business world, however, thanks to the rise of the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) model. Deep Dive: Tapping The Trillion-Dollar Market Potential Of The Baas Model. Around The BaaS World. About The Playbook.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Despite the rise of FinTech firms and challenger banks hoping to offer small businesses (SMBs) a better banking experience, large traditional financial institutions (FIs) continue to hold the dominant position in the SMB financial services (FinServ) space. Yet, the report also shows the limitations of the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Traditional financial institutions (FIs) may offer only money transfers made via expensive correspondent banking networks, and some customers may require assistance from several financial services providers to meet their needs. Legacy banks often send remittances over correspondent banking networks, which can drive up costs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

Digital banking is not the main element that drives consumers toward using a credit union. However, as Lumin Digital President Jeff Chambers told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, that doesn’t mean the digital banking experience isn’t critical to credit unions’ relationships with their members.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

While they were once seen as novelties, challenger banking institutions are further encroaching into traditional banks’ territory, adding new responsibilities and products to their portfolios, such as lending. News From the Digital Banking Landscape. The challenger bank phenomenon is not unique to the U.K.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 7, 2017

Sørensen Chris Skinner needs no introduction in the fintech and banking space. We met Chris Skinner for a talk on the latest global banking trends and how banks mainly in Europe and North America deal with the challenges of their legacy systems and position and face the dramatic changes in the financial services market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

To service Main Street businesses, it’s an obvious advantage for a financial institution to actually be on Main Street. today, only a small fraction offer a fully digital small business lending experience, he said, and that means these players are losing out to their larger rivals. The Open Banking Trajectory.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

The new Digital Banking Tracker highlights how banks are adopting new approaches to protect their customers and clients from nefarious actors. News From The Digital Banking Landscape. Fighting fraud is often a group effort, as can be seen in several global markets. About The Digital Banking Tracker.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

“In this day and age, it is very important for community financial institutions to be able to compete with their main new competitors – challenger banks and national banks – and have access to the same technology that can be deployed in weeks not years.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 9, 2022

Bank executives should take these new deals’ valuations as a sign that the free market sees the future of finance as unbundled from the traditional industry structure. These levels of revenue and EBITDA multiples have never been seen in the history of core banking platforms. Response From The Other Two Big 3 Players.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Nigel Verdon, CEO of Railsbank , said the changing landscape of financial services has helped shine a light on the flexibility and speed companies need to develop new products and services and get them to market quickly to their end customers. The accounts are not just money accounts,” he told Webster.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Small businesses have landed at the center of B2B FinTechs’ and financial service providers’ latest collaborative efforts. In this week’s roundup of open banking initiatives and bank-FinTech tie-ups, PYMNTS finds a renewed push to strengthen SMB banking experiences including financing, account management and more.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The November edition of the PYMNTS Digital Banking Tracker , a Feedzai collaboration, features an interview about how credit unions can attain AI, a scorecard of industry players and the latest headlines surrounding AIs, digital security and new digital banks. Around the Digital Banking World.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Fintech is expensive. Fintech is everywhere. Fintech is the global competition for regulation, talent, and macroeconomic supremacy. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is the trade war between the US and China. Fintech is Facebook and Amazon. Fintech is the next bubble to burst.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

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

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

From automation to mobile-first institutions and solutions, disruption is the new normal for the digital banking space. Financial institutions have rolled out a handful of new smartphone-first innovations for the digital banking space that are promising to bring disruption to the industry. New Tools, New Types of Banks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

percent of consumers indicated that trust in their FIs was the key reason they chose a particular CU as a banking partner. To meet their own ROI goals and deliver on members’ preferences, CUs are turning to FinTech firms as partners in innovation. As they pursue their innovation goals, many CUs are working with FinTech firms.

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