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Kristen Larson joins Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group

CFPB Monitor

I am pleased to share with our blog readers that Kristen Larson, an attorney with almost two decades of in-house experience advising midsized and large national banks on financial services matters, has joined Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group. She is resident in the firm’s Minneapolis office.

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U.S. Bank Reaching Beyond Branches as 71% of Active Customers Are Now Digital

Bank Innovation

Coming off the launch of a revamped mobile app and the hiring of the bank's first chief digital officer, U.S. Bank executives, during the first-quarter earnings call today, outlined a strategy to extend relationships with customers outside the Minneapolis-based bank's physical footprint.

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

Fintech Labs Insights

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Union has been a stalwart of the California marketplace since the ’50s, and this gives Andy Cecere and team a great expansion into the Golden State and also some nice wholesale banking business. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis.

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Top 33 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses (SMB) in Nov 2021

Fintech Labs Insights

Minneapolis. A defunct Canadian bank, Bayshore Trust, launched the first online loan application in March 1996. Top 30 Alt-Lenders (Digital) Lending to Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMB) in the United States. Related: Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021). IOU Financial.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

The Ecosystem Award – Goes to Partners Credit Union for its collaborative member experience work with digital banking vendor Kony (now part of Temenos). The digital banking provider helped implement digital competitiveness against big banks that Partners sought. Good news, banks: We have customers.”.

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Fintech Fundings: 186 Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in June

Fintech Labs Insights

Alt-lending to small businesses. Marketplace lending analytics. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tags: SMB, lending, credit, underwriting, payments, point-of-sale, mobile, trade finance. Total raised: $42 million. HQ: Ahmedabad, India. Source: Crunchbase. West Creek Financial. Consumer purchase financing. Latest round: $28.5

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