PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

billion — 91 percent — of those penalties, while European regulators demanded $1.7 FinTechs could face these same financial pains as regulators increasingly demand that they follow the compliance rules to which FIs must adhere. Can AI Support Digital Banking’s AML Efforts? . A report found that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

FinTech TradeCore rolled out a platform that helps new financial institutions (FIs) launch quickly and easily, according to a Financial IT report. CEO Stefan Pajkovic founded the company to help emerging FinTechs find their way through the industry’s regulations and licensing requirements.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Components of an effective fintech partnership If leveraging new technology is a priority for your FI, ensure these three elements are present for an effective fintech partnership. . Takeaway 2 When evaluating a fintech partnership, ask how the vendor will help with integration, training, and ongoing success.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 11, 2017

After the global financial crisis, they all jumped off it again, and most global, universal banks ambitions are now clipped back to purely being able to support their global corporate clients’ needs. There are few trusted value stores of bitcoin and the ones that exist are regulated. It’s not universal, just commercial.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

Cross River Bank, a company that provides banking services for FinTechs, has partnered with payments processor and tech provider RS2 Software to provide an improved payment and digital banking experience for its customers, the companies announced.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

FinTech LendingClub is purchasing Radius Bancorp for $185 million in cash and stock, according to a report by CNBC. The bank is one of a few smaller lenders that has teamed up with FinTechs who need services only an FDIC-regulated institution can provide. This is the first time a FinTech has purchased an actual bank.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As cloud technologies emerge to help financial institutions (FIs) drive digital innovation, Finastra has introduced its Fusion Payments To Go offering for small and medium-sized banks. In addition, Monese adopted Thought Machine’s cloud banking platform. Fusion Reveals Payments Platform Banks. Europe and South Africa.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

Where once the marquee names in tech (and no shortage of FinTechs) jockeyed for primary banking services relationships, an increasing number of partnerships are now taking shape. To that end, BBVA was one of six banks that said on Monday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

To be the bank, buy the bank. Earlier this week, a FinTech took the leap into the full spectrum of financial services, perhaps paving the way for future mashups. The $185 cash and stock deal would bring an online bank with $1.4 The LendingClub announcement follows the news that mobile bank Varo received approval from U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As evidence that sandboxes are ever-increasingly a global phenomenon, Kuwait’s central bank put forth guidelines this week that are geared toward companies seeking to meld financial technology (FinTech) and financial services (FinServ). As previously reported, Saudi Arabia has trained sights on FinTech as well, specifically in Riyadh.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

The Financial Times said on Tuesday (June 18) that RBS picked Marieke Flament, Circle ‘s CMO and European managing director, to serve as CEO of the digital bank, Mettle. lender to launch a separate digital bank, reports noted, with plans to debut the Mettle app in August. RBS is the first top U.K. ”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

The twist is, that gap in small business banking innovation led external FinTechs to step in and today, small business banking is a highly competitive, and highly innovative, area of financial services. In India, Visa recently announced a partnership with FinTech Open to introduce new small business banking services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants in the European Union (EU) have had some time to get used to both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Australian regulators are still deciding how Open Banking will affect FIs within their country.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

FinTech Tide withdrew from the program citing inadequate funding, according to a report in The Guardian. . The FinTech lender Tide is scrambling to secure the funding necessary to offer BBL top-ups to its customers. Tide was founded by banker George Bevis in 2015; London venture capitalist Eileen Burbidge serves as the bank's chair.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Singapore-based FinTech platform Nium is expanding into the Middle East, the company announced on Monday (Oct. FinTech across the Middle East is also set to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent, and expected to raise over $2 billion in venture capital funding by 2020.".

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Chris Skinner

OCTOBER 12, 2017

I find it interesting as we move towards Open Banking and Open APIs through regulations at both the UK and EU levels. All well and good, you would think, but several surveys point to it not being … The post Don’t be so blasé about people loving FinTech appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Year-old Citi Fintech, the digital banking sub-brand of Citigroup Inc., That may seem like a long time by startup reckoning, but it’s not so bad for a (gigantic, regulated, global) bank. has launched its first product.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

European digital bank Revolut , the continent's largest such institution with 13 million users, is close to applying for a U.S. digital banking license, according to a report by CNBC. Revolut's bank charter will be with California, but it will allow the bank to operate anywhere in the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2017

Community banks can also play the fintech game. BankMobile — the digital bank, formerly a division of Customers Bancorp Inc. — was acquired by Flagship, a Florida-based community bank, for $175 million. “We We are no longer a partner or a division of […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter.

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Insights on Business

APRIL 28, 2017

Recently, new digital technologies – driven by cloud, mobile, social media and analytics – have significantly lowered entry barriers and put customers much more at the center of the banking relationship. At the same time, regulators in many countries also have relaxed regulations to encourage innovation in the banking industry.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. of bankers are either strongly interested in or already working with fintechs in digital account opening. Matt Gallman, Drummond Community Bank.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is looking toward new technologies to keep a closer eye on the nation’s FinTech , blockchain and digital lending markets. It has also been unfriendly toward other forms of digital finance, including the peer-to-peer lending industry.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

While it gears up to apply for a digital banking license in Singapore, cross-border payments firm InstaReM is reportedly seeking lending business partners. InstaReM , which was started in 2014, is regulated in Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Malaysia, the U.S. and the European Union.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2022

These fintech and banking trends should be on financial institutions’ radar in the year ahead. This list of top banking and fintech trends for 2022 won’t tell anyone anything they haven’t already heard about. Visa announced the launch of a crypto advisory service for its banking and merchant clients.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In France, Treezor , a banking as a service platform, said this week that has deployed the Thales SafeNet Data Protection On Demand solution for what is being billed as “safety across the entire payment chain, from tier one banks and neo banks to crowdfunding organizations,” as noted in a release. Banking on Banking Licenses.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

That growing group of FIs includes Sweden-based FinTech Tink , which offers a consumer-facing digital banking platform alongside a growing B2B API development business. Founded in 2012, Tink debuted its AI and machine learning-focused digital banking platform the following year to give customers better financial insights.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Regulators, particularly in the nations with the largest swaths of unbanked consumers, will say it offers users no easy way to cash in, cash out or reliably spend the Libra currency. The appeal of the banking license is it ensures the fact that they can provide the full spectrum of services,” he said. “But The Wider Future.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

According to Brad Fauss, president and CEO of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, the recently released regulations on prepaid cards from the Consumer Finance Protection Board could be another instance of good intentions gone wrong. The updated regulations are slated to take effect Oct. Around the Digital Banking world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

s new Open Banking rules, which enable FinTechs to branch into the mainstream banking industry, are being held up as big banks delay making the changes. for more time implementing the Open Banking rule. for more time implementing the Open Banking rule. 13, but the banks want an extension.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

That can hold especially true in wealthy countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as discussed in a new PYMNTS interview with Evans Munyuki, chief digital officer of Emirates NBD , a UAE banking group. However, that’s changing. SMBs] are the backbone of many economies,” he said. New Venture.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Luxembourg regulators have given a thumbs-up to the FinTech PingPong , authorizing it to do business as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI). The new license will allow PingPong to offer customers “a more flexible array of services,” the company said in a news release.

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Accenture

MARCH 23, 2017

I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. Right now, compared with Fintech, RegTech has low investment for the size of spend. It’s relevant not just in banking, but capital markets, wealth management and insurance. RegTech means… RegTech!

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Accenture

MARCH 23, 2017

I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. Right now, compared with Fintech, RegTech has low investment for the size of spend. It’s relevant not just in banking, but capital markets, wealth management and insurance. RegTech means… RegTech!

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The FinTech unicorn Plaid has rolled out in three more European countries – Ireland, France and Spain – as part of an expansion initiative, CNBC reported on Thursday (Nov. The Silicon-based startup, launched in 2013, uses a unified application programming interface (API) to link FinTech apps with people’s bank accounts.

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