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Citigroup Eyes Creation Of National Digital Bank

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Citigroup is gearing up to launch a digital consumer bank that will be national in scope and will arrive within the next three years. The CFO said the bank won’t start marketing a national digital bank until it can provide services via mobile phones and computers for customers, who have increasingly gone digital.

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The Race To The Cloud: Will Digital Banks Win?

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More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. The bank is working with technology giants Google and Microsoft to create new cloud-based tools that will use their cloud computing software.

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Varo Achieves Milestone As First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

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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. Varo is the first consumer FinTech to receive a new national bank charter from the U.S. Varo Bank N.A.

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Why Chase decided to drop digital-banking app Finn

Bank Innovation

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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Credit Unions Unite Behind Digital Banking

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There is a sense, however, that CUs themselves bear responsibility for falling behind the digital banking trends that first took hold with consumers. Digital Unison. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) trade group reported that net income for credit unions fell by 1.1

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

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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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Building a Discipline to Drive Digital Banking Strategy

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Cornerstone’s Growth Engine Framework illustrated below summarizes common measurements used to monitor the digital customer through the capture, acquire and nurture stages of relationship development. The bank should monitor app store ratings versus the competition, looking at the median on both Apple and Android devices.

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