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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.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Demand for digital solutions continues to accelerate, making innovation an imperative for community banks looking to excel in today’s evolving market. That’s why ICBA makes innovation a priority and provides community banks with the information and tools necessary to grow and succeed in today’s competitive landscape.

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MARCH 17, 2020

One , a new digital banking service in the U.S., The company also announced a Series A funding round that raised $17 million from Foundation Capital, Obvious Ventures and Core Innovation Capital. There’s a gap in the market that’s not being met. There’s a gap in the market that’s not being met.

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JUNE 3, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis continues to upend the economy, including even the world of digital banking. As previously reported in this space, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, announced its intention to issue five digital banking licenses last year. That was before the pandemic hit.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With the global pandemic creating a market of volatility, corporate spend is down as businesses look to safeguard their bottom lines against macroeconomic headwinds. What's more, the market lull may offer a moment to focus on innovation for the future as commercial payment habits shift — perhaps permanently.

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MAY 29, 2018

Citigroup said on Tuesday (May 29) that it won’t use high deposit rates to lure new customers to its digital bank – instead, it will go after its credit card customers. Citigroup’s efforts to grow its digital banking offering come at a time when activist investor ValueAct Capital recently revealed that it has a roughly $1.2

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB) was awarded the first digital banking license and Category 1 status from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), Islamic Business & Finance reported on Wednesday (Sept.

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JULY 24, 2020

It’s a model based on the concept of collaboration and cooperation, two ideals that have become instrumental in the financial services arena’s payments innovation efforts. ” That global reach also had the CU prioritizing global payments innovation from the get-go. in markets like Kenya, mobile payments are the norm.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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JULY 8, 2019

And the question of how to build a workable and innovative model in the developing world is one that has been on Nanu’s mind a lot – though for rather different reasons than it has been on Facebook’s. They want us to focus on true innovation.”. Building Real Innovation for Real Gaps. We don’t want to do this alone.

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JULY 1, 2019

When it comes to technological innovation, however, the smaller players have long been outgunned by larger FIs and their sizable IT budgets. Today, small banks are more aggressive and ambitious in their innovation strategies than medium-sized and large FIs. percent) and large banks (23.8 This is changing — in a big way.

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APRIL 27, 2020

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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JANUARY 7, 2020

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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JANUARY 3, 2020

In late June, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) sent a ripple through the global financial services ecosystem with the announcement of its intention to issue five digital bank licenses to eligible applicants. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. and United Overseas Bank Ltd. Razer And The Youth Bank .

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As digital banking goes mainstream, banks are recognizing that a mobile app that lets customers carry out day-to-day tasks isn’t enough. Bank has been preparing, especially as it reports that 72% of its customers are considered “digital-active” and 50% are using mobile channels.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Innovation has become such a buzzword that it can be applied to countless solutions and initiatives, from emerging 5G mobile technology and the rise of “smart factories” to using blockchain to trace and track food supply chains to deploying kiosks to personalizing the ordering experience. The State of Innovation. points to 19.3,

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 5, 2019

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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JANUARY 31, 2019

31) that it has kicked off the second phase of its initiative to roll out a digital-only retail bank in Africa. In a press release , Standard Chartered said that in response to demand from consumers in Africa, it will launch its digital banking business in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and Kenya.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Early innovators managed cooperatives using the same founding principle that CUs use today: members-first finance in place of indifferent, legacy-style banking. 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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MARCH 2, 2020

A trillion-dollar market cap later, it’s hard to argue Amazon’s effectiveness, quote attribution notwithstanding. It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

It is a very good test market,” Drappa said. The market being small, you can test your product on different population[s] with reduced marketing fees.” Large multinational companies see opportunity in the city: Oracle has picked Brussels to bring its FinTech Innovation Program to the continent, the company announced in June.

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this week’s “Weekly Wrap” podcast, the Bank Automation News team discusses some of the latest from core and digital banking solutions provider Temenos gleaned from its SCALE developer conference, where the company showcased how it is fostering innovation and bringing new fintech ideas to market faster.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

These days, no matter how creative, innovative and disruptive an idea a financial services player may have, the reality is they don’t have a lot of time to sit around developing it. Speed to market is critical, more so today than it has ever been in history. Staying Ahead of an Innovator Client Base .

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JUNE 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has removed the choice and forced FIs and customers to interact via digital platforms, though, and brick-and-mortar branches have become auxiliary services with limited use for more complicated financial tasks for those who remain branch-dependent. Confronting Digital Banking Reality.

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JULY 1, 2020

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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MARCH 26, 2020

But as of 2020, it is a subject upon which seasoned experts can disagree, in a world where traditional banks and FinTechs are operating in parallel in the market – and, in many cases, are offering similar services for consumers. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2019

JPMorgan Chase's millennial-friendly digital banking app Finn is shutting down, just one year after it rolled out nationally. The […].

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We imagine if presented with an iPhone, penicillin, an automobile or just a ballpoint pen, even the original scribe would have been forced to concede that exciting innovations might be coming up on humanity’s horizon in the intervening 30 centuries. So today (Sept. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2017

Edward “EJ” Achtner, Bank of America‘s Head of Digital Banking – Strategy, Platforms, Innovation, and Partnerships, has joined the Bank Innovation 2017 speaker faculty. based bank.

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JUNE 3, 2019

In fact, credit unions that focus on data analytics are more likely to pursue a wider range of innovations than those that do not. The results are based on insights from 102 credit union decision-makers, and highlight how CUs that focus on data analytics are more likely to pursue innovations than those that do not. For example, 91.7

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JULY 11, 2018

Citizens Financial Group announced the launch of its nationwide, direct-to-consumer digital bank. Over the last several years, direct bank deposits have grown six times faster than deposits at traditional banks as consumers have sought innovative new ways to save money,” said John Rosenfeld, president of Citizens Access.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 28, 2019

United Arab Emirates-based digital bank Liv on Wednesday launched its virtual assistant Olivia, which was built by conversational AI company Kasisto. Olivia, a play on the bank’s name Liv, can check balances and give spending insights through text and the bank’s mobile app. has 210,000 […].

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JULY 1, 2020

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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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Banks continue their digital transformation journey to create new business models to satisfy today’s demanding customers. How do banks prepare for this new reality? For Bradesco, a large Brazilian bank, NEXT is the answer. Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand.

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JULY 22, 2020

And in bank regulation, open banking is developing at a fast clip in Brazil, while the pandemic may have sped up the digital banking shift in many markets beyond the region. 86%: Share of global banks seeking to use APIs for open banking within the next year. All this, Today in Data. Data: .

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2019

Get ready for more banks. Digital ones, that is. New data shows that consumers -- and financial institutions -- are more inclined toward greenfield digital banks. In a recent survey by Fiserv, 86% of respondents said they would consider leaving their bank, if they could not easily manage their accounts online.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

However, the most intriguing development in the Open Banking world is not the impact of these two regulations inside of Europe, but outside of it. Other regulators in Australia, India and Singapore are examining financial innovation rules of their own, using GDPR and PSD2 as guidelines. Open Banking And The Race To Enter Singapore.

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