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BankMobile Is One Of Six New FIs To Offer Smart Digital Bank Accounts Via Google Pay

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BankMobile, BBVA USA, BMO Harris, The Coastal Community Bank, First Independence Bank (a federally designated minority depository institution) and SEFCU will join Citi and Stanford Federal Credit Union in the offering beginning next year. “We 3) in announcing the bank’s agreement with Google. .

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BBVA To Close Simple, Move Customers Over To BBVA USA

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PYMNTS wrote recently that BBVA was one of six banks last year to begin work with Google on "smart" digital bank accounts, with Google Pay used as an app-driven way to broaden digital reach and give better user experiences.

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Hollywood’s Newest Special Effect, Digital Banking?

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To meet this goal, Soul Machines is producing artificial intelligence-powered avatars that are designed to emotionally engage with banking customers. Nadia was designed with input from people with disabilities to more effectively meet their needs. If the avatar knows you’re a happy person, the avatar will smile.

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NEW DATA: How COVID-19 Is Driving CUs’ Digital Leap

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COVID-19 has closed bank and credit union (CU) branches across the United States, sending the demand for digital banking solutions soaring as consumers hop online to manage their finances from home. However, CUs are not the only financial institutions (FIs) looking to offer digital banking innovations to their members.

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Digital-First Banking With A Human Feel

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“Consumers are now leaning heavily on digital banking to meet their financial needs. Banking app downloads have increased 60 percent since the pandemic became widespread, with banking app revenue growing 17 percent,” according to PYMNTS’ May 2020 Digital-First Banking Tracker® , a collaboration with NCR.

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Banking-As-A-Service (BaaS) Making Payments Faster And ‘Smarter’

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Looking at the plight of migrant workers and those working abroad during the COVID event, PYMNTS November 2020 Smarter Payments Tracker® powered by Nium notes that, “Legacy FIs can struggle to provide affordable remittance services that meet migrant workers’ needs, and their dependency on correspondent banking networks can drive up service costs.

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FIs Most Underutilized Asset: Their Apps

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Mobile banking apps are designed to make digital banking more convenient for customers, yet 21.7 So what can financial institutions (FIs) do to improve their apps’ user experience (UX), and will making these changes help boost adoption and usage? percent of consumers who use these apps are dissatisfied with them.

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