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Singapore Says They’ll Award Digital Banking Licenses By Year's End

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Singapore's financial regulator is sticking to the original plan to award digital banking licenses by the end of the year, according to a Bloomberg report, no matter how tight the scrutiny is in China and the U.S. The digital banking licenses are highly coveted due to Singapore's status as a financial regulatory hub.

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Credit Unions Unite Behind Digital Banking

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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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Jack Ma Tells Chinese Regulators Ant Group Not A Bank

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Reuters writes that while Ant presents itself as a tech company, financial regulators have suggested it's under their umbrella. It has broadened its reach to include artificial intelligence and other such techniques to work with insurance, wealth management and other types of products. The aforementioned IPO will go for $34.4

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RBS Chooses Leader For SMB Digital Bank Mettle

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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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BBVA On Google, Digital Banking And The Rise Of The ‘Everyday App’

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The writing has been on the wall: PYMNTS research has found that though most people are satisfied with their in-place relationships with banks, only about 40 percent of people would be “extremely” or “very” likely to bring their banking relationships to Big Tech or FinTechs. 4, behind PayPal, Amazon and Walmart.

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Cross River And Cloud Payment Co RS2 Form Digital Banking Partnership

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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. RS2 builds payment solutions for upwards of 14 million merchants.

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Making A Sizzling Leap Into Digital Banking

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FinTech has bought a bank, and it shows how digital-first firms can broaden their scale and reach with cross-pollination across financial offerings. The LendingClub announcement follows the news that mobile bank Varo received approval from U.S.