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Lloyds Bank Marks $4.1B for Digital Strategy

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billion) for digital development and growth, the bank announced today. The investment will be spread out over three years, allowing the bank to expand its technologies in order to compete with the increasing number of fintechs and digital banking providers. British bank Lloyds has put aside £3 billion ($4.1

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Easing The Online Shift With Integrated Invoicing

PYMNTS

While FinTech innovation has opened up the doors for small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) to access more sophisticated solutions to manage money, software fatigue has business owners overwhelmed by a barrage of siloed systems. According to Yakov, before the pandemic, about 65 percent of The OLB Group's merchant base were not online.

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Easing SMBs’ Digital Transformations Through Online Payment Acceptance

PYMNTS

Among the numerous ways small businesses have been affected by the global pandemic, the sudden race to launch online operations has been among the most profound — and may ultimately be among the most long-lasting changes to the SMB community. ” A Digitization Strategy. The Payments Path.

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FinTechs Prove Their Value During Pandemic

PYMNTS

At a time when surging coronavirus counts are once again muddying the outlook for consumers and business owners, MerchantE Chief Financial Officer Shim Steinmetz says the crisis has also provided a silver lining of sorts to nimble FinTechs that can solve merchants’ cash crunch problems. Or consider Sears.

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Helping FI’s Develop Their ‘FinTech Sense’

PYMNTS

Everyone knows that digital and mobile services are key to success in the 2020s — not only in terms of more revenue, but also larger transformations. But that doesn’t mean all the players in payments and financial services have a solid or clear digital strategy.

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Who Owns Digital? Ugh, That’s the Problem for Bankers

Gonzobanker

Experience design is a specific skillset that is needed to steer the execution of a bank’s digital strategy. Without this leader in the driver’s seat, banks become either too dependent on slower-moving, outsourced vendors or too fragmented as digital is deployed in silos across different business units.

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FinTechs Link With FIs Down Under And Beyond

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Increasingly, digital strategy is in the purview of banks and non-bank lenders, who in turn are seeking pairings with FinTechs. The insurance FinTech, said the site, will seek to offer insurance contracts that are binding in real time, whereas traditionally insurance companies have finished the process. million USD.

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