PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Financial crime is a pervasive threat to banks, credit unions, FinTechs and other financial institutions (FIs) the world over. British banks spend upward of £6.7 Technologies like video onboarding and AI have shown promise in facing this threat, but each is vulnerable when deployed alone. billion ($8.9 billion in 2019.

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Technology Report Fraud Study 208

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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Digital Banking Payments Software Fintech 179

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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Fintech Innovation Lending Digital Banking 173

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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Google Digital Banking Course Branding 298

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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Fintech Bitcoin cryptocurrency Lending 193

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. Department of the Treasury that charters and regulates financial institutions. which had housed them, the news service reported.

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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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Digital Banking Guidelines Regulation Data 136

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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Fintech Regional Fraud Meeting 174

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). FinTech Efforts In Africa. The sandbox, Reuters reported, has four phases.

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Fintech Guidelines Mobile Training 167

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Headlines are filled with reports of service outages and data breaches , and both banks and consumers are contending with rising fraud concerns as digital banking takes off. Fraud threatens everyone, yet customers rely on their banks for protection. The Technology Gap That Fosters Fraudsters.

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Technology Fraud Data Security 142

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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Community Bank Community Fintech Risk Management 159

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. Trend #2: The Cryptofication of Banks. Revenue” will be the mantra of bank-fintech partnerships in 2022.

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Trends Fintech social media Strategy 190

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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Regulation Guidelines Tools Data 115

Insights on Business

APRIL 28, 2017

Banking products and services were defined and controlled by the bank. 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.

Digital Banking 171

Digital Banking User Experience Branding social media 171

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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Fintech Survey Regulation Data 258

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. Grab, Razer and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.

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Digital Banking Lending America Report 123

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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Fintech Digital Banking Regulation Branding 150

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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Community Bank Community Fintech Florida 252

Accenture

MARCH 23, 2017

I wanted to follow on from my previous blog around the emergence of RegTech (technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance.) I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. Now—what does RegTech mean? RegTech means… RegTech!

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Regulation Industry Trends Compliance 150

Accenture

MARCH 23, 2017

I wanted to follow on from my previous blog around the emergence of RegTech (technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance.) I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. Now—what does RegTech mean? RegTech means… RegTech!

Regulation 150

Regulation Industry Trends Compliance 150

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.

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Regulation Capital Fintech Innovation 255

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 news set off a high-stakes race among today’s top global eCommerce, finance and technology players.

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Digital Banking Innovation Maine Regulation 185

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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Trends Digital Banking Innovation Regional 194

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The latest global FinTech collaboration ties together Singapore and Dubai in a deal designed to encourage innovation in digital payments, online and mobile commerce, and related areas. The deal between the two countries comes as other global FinTech partnerships are being formed. The FinTech is Finserve Africa.

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Fintech Trends Innovation Groups 111

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is offering as many as five digital banking permits to non-banks to boost competition. Ant Financial is worth around $150 billion, making it one of the most valuable private sector FinTech companies in the world. billion ($1.1 billion) in capital and local control.

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Digital Banking Capital Taxes Groups 101

South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Gartner focused on technology infrastructure, while Money 20/20 was around fintech and payments. Small Idea – It’s Our Kid’s Technology. It was a sobering thought to realize that we are all really building most of this technology for our kids. Complicated technology sucks, but mortality sucks more.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Community banking may get a boost from technology, if recent activity is any indication. In Florida, reported American Banker – in the community banking realm – Seacoast Banking has paired with SmartBiz Loans to shorten the loan approvals process. They bank all these small businesses. ”

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Community Bank Community Fintech Florida 104

South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As can be seen, the conference largely revolved around payments, artificial intelligence, fintech partnerships/management, regulation, and fraud/identity in its various forms. Below is a breakdown of all 300 sessions, less the demos and sales pitches. You have never heard so many intelligent people sound not so smart.

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Conference Las Vegas Fraud Case Study 221

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. He passed away in January 2023.

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Fintech Community Regional Technology 195

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. Meanwhile, Emma Technologies LTD has celebrated an AI milestone.

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Digital Banking Fintech Software Operations 163

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. Regulators in countries like Egypt have only recently rolled out their data protection rules.

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Online Report Payments Regulation 151

Insights on Business

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The dominant story is that fintech startups and banks are better off as friends than foes. Fintech, once seen as a disruptor, is now becoming a mainstream and also a collaborating partner. Banks provide trust and infrastructure to a partnership with fintech. Banks are also innovators.

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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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Fintech blockchain Lending Digital Banking 183

PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Digital banking customers of today aren’t looking for the bank with the newest features — they’re looking for the bank that can keep their data safe. Any security mishap can send customers to one of the other digital banking apps that are ready and waiting for them. Around the Digital Banking World.

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Digital Banking Fraud United States Security 209

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Beyond the investment vehicles themselves, the secular and organic trends do indeed point toward growth, with an underpinning of technology that is moving companies into the digital age. That trend has pushed FinTechs and FIs to craft more direct financial interactions with consumers.

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Fintech Capital Innovation Data 169

PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

The cost of technology has lessened, though, opening the door for SMEs to bring bits and bytes to supply chains – lessening reliance on manual processes and invoices of the paper kind, thus eliminating errors. Auto bank reconciliation will also be available to SMEs. And the trend is increasingly international in scope.

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Fintech Compliance Software Taxes 115