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Movers and Shakers: Notable March Hires in Fintech and Digital Banking

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Growth is the name of the game for this month's notable hires in digital banking and fintech. On one hand, a major FI like Spanish bank Santander hired a former Google executive to create new products, while smaller fintechs are opening up shop in new markets to drive growth.

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Why Mexico’s SMBs Need A FinTech Operating System And Not Another Bank

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Emerging markets have their own challenges when it comes to banking, where big, traditional financial institutions (FIs) are anything but efficient. The world doesn’t need another bank,” Poovala told Webster. The world needs a FinTech operating system.”.

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The Race To The Cloud: Will Digital Banks Win?

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More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. The bank is working with technology giants Google and Microsoft to create new cloud-based tools that will use their cloud computing software.

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Deep Dive: Strategizing Transparent, Holistic Digital Banking Transformations

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One study recently determined that the number of digital banking users is expected to exceed 3.6 billion by 2024, and a separate study suggested that many customers were willing to use FinTechs as well as their primary banks to receive the level of technological support they desired.

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ADVANCE.AI Consortium Seeks Singaporean Digital Banking License

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Yet another business consortium vies for a lucrative, wholesale digital banking license, according to reports. The license bid is “an opportunity for us to impact an underserved segment,” said Mi Li, ADVANCE.AI’s chief marketing officer. Other companies include Razer, Grab Holdings and Ant Financial.

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German FinTech N26 Eyes IPO With Hiring Of New CFO

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German neobank N26 hired Dr. Jan Kemper as its new chief financial officer (CFO) as the Berlin-headquartered FinTech looks toward a future initial public offering (IPO). In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. Its most recent valuation was $3.5 Following the U.K.’s

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IFC, Citi Launch $800M Fund To Support Trade Finance In Emerging Markets

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have established an $800 million fund to boost trade finance in emerging markets. Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting supply chains, decreasing demand, and causing overall market anxiety,” said Paulo de Bolle , global director of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group, in a statement. The International Finance Corp. (

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