Gonzobanker

JULY 21, 2021

In a recent survey of banks and credit unions about their technology vendor contracts, Cornerstone Advisors found that more than half of these financial institutions allow emotional factors to influence their negotiation processes. Technology Vendor Financials Tell the Story. Download it here. And it’s costing them money.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

However, financial institutions (FIs) are getting better at separating vital areas of innovation from the hype. Banks are increasingly focusing on the fundamentals when determining their innovation agendas. Payment technology is in many ways the flagship among the fleet of innovations that banks are pursuing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

So, how are CUs changing their card innovation plans to match their current members’ demands and attract new potential members? This is just one of many questions PYMNTS, in collaboration with PSCU , set out to answer in the Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Card Trends Edition. Moreover, 89.4 percent between February and May.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) face stiff competition from banks, FinTech firms and other players in the financial industry, but they have several intrinsic advantages. CUs are also leveraging the latest technologies, including cloud computing, to continue fostering the relationships with their customers. Around The Credit Union World.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

When it comes to innovation, though, are CUs investing in the technologies their members want, or are they putting their money into innovations that don’t align with their members’ priorities? The findings highlighted a disconnect between the innovation priorities of CUs and the ones important to their members.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Banks today recognize that they must embrace innovation to survive in a world being rapidly transformed by digital technology. These digital products must run reliably, securely and fast — and this requires a solid technological foundation. Core-enabled: FIs that consider only their core systems to be effective. •

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Banks and FinTechs have been both competitors and collaborators in the financial services space. In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. New tools for new FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

When it comes to technological innovation, however, the smaller players have long been outgunned by larger FIs and their sizable IT budgets. Today, small banks are more aggressive and ambitious in their innovation strategies than medium-sized and large FIs. This is changing — in a big way. On average, these FIs designate 45.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This puts them at risk of losing customers to more agile FinTechs that lack these issues. A survey of bank CEOs found that 72 percent were prioritizing technology investments, with 58 percent of respondents reporting that they were investing in automation technologies like artificial intelligence (AI).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The pace of payments innovation continues to accelerate, and corporate payments are no longer an exception to this trend. But to understand where B2B payments innovation is going, Jay Dearborn, president of corporate payments at WEX , said the industry must first take a look in the rearview mirror. “To FinTech’s Collaboration Strategy.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

DOWNLOAD Takeaway 1 With generative AI technology improving by the day, the question is not if the banking industry will utilize it, but when. Takeaway 3 Financial institutions should resist the hype to apply the technology to their most complex problems and be strategic as AI improves. So, what is generative AI?

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Bussman Advisory

JUNE 24, 2022

The latest edition of the FinTech Ecosystem Newsletter is here : Interested in FinTech or Digital Assets related Advisory or Workshop? Do you want your board, executives or staff to better understand the impact of FinTech, Blockchain or Digital Assets on the future of finance? Subscribe now to our weekly newsletter.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

However, CUs are not the only financial institutions (FIs) looking to offer digital banking innovations to their members. FinTechs are also emerging as major CU competitors. This puts FinTechs and CUs on a collision course, with each racing to innovate new products that will grab members’ attention and patronage.

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Bobsguide

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Banks are depending on the cloud to build better systems for the future, but legacy technology is holding 62% of them back. The growing need to overhaul these systems is what powered GFT’s leap on the 2022 IDC FinTech Rankings. The post GFT Advances in 2022 IDC FinTech Rankings appeared first on Bobsguide.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Along with the proliferation of faster, easier payment technologies, there are countless ways that vendors and suppliers can send and receive B2B payments. About 81 percent use credit cards, for instance, while 41 percent prefer settling accounts with ePayables technology, just to name a couple. In a word: ubiquity, or lack thereof.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

In August’s The FI’s Guide To Modernizing Digital Payments , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of payments modernization, including record numbers of digital payment users in India, high demand for instant payments from corporates as well as consumers, and emerging competition from FinTechs and challenger banks. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Banks and FinTech companies have a complicated history. While traditional banks offer a more established and tested set of products, the offerings of newer FinTech companies — such as real-time data, streamlined payments and quick notifications — are helping these new players encroach on banks’ territories. Why the tension?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

After a difficult first quarter, fintech funding rebounded in a big way in Q2’20. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20. Fintech funding rebounded in Q2’20 but deal activity continues to fall. Below, we answer some of our readers’ most pressing questions from the webinar on the state of fintech.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

This is just one of the key questions PYMNTS sought to answer in the Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Challenger Banks Edition , in collaboration with PSCU. Three out of 10 CU members say they would be interested in banking with PayPal, and two out of 10 would be interested in using banking services offered by large technology firms.

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Insights on Business

JULY 30, 2018

While these now ubiquitous technologies are used by practically everyone across the industry and beyond, there still is evolving to do in the financial industry. As these technologies penetrate the financial landscape, collaboration between financial firms, large and small, have never been more prevalent.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

In a landscape that’s fast evolving to match the needs of tech-savvy customers, credit unions are innovating to compete with larger commercial banks and FinTech firms to attract and retain customers. We embrace technology and I think our members have, too,” DeBoer said. Embracing Tech Change to Win Over Millennials.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Two FinTech firms in Poland are also forging closer ties. iCompass , a software provider that supplied technology for the first Polish mPOS platform, initiated a merger with Braintri , a company that develops mobile apps for major Polish banks. Two FinTech firms in Poland are also forging closer ties. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

The details are offered in Building a Better App: Banks and the Innovation Imperative Report , a collaboration between PYMNTS and Ondot Systems, the Silicon Valley-based FinTech. Nearly 44 percent of respondents said they would be “very” or “extremely” interested in downloading it. The results?

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Celent Banking

MARCH 31, 2015

Last week was busy for Celent: on Monday we hosted our annual Innovation and Insight Day at Carnegie Hall (more on that later). The Banking Team recognized nineteen model banks across five categories: Digital; Omnichannel; Legacy and Ecosystem Transformation; Innovation and Emerging Technologies; and Payments.

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CB Insights

APRIL 22, 2020

GET THE 102-PAGE State of fintech REPORT. Download the free report for all the details. Below, we dig into how the financial difficulties that many SMBs face could impact fintech companies (especially B2B fintech startups). What a cash flow crisis means for fintech companies.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The emergence of APIs is doing more than just changing the way banks and FinTechs operate. It’s forcing them to create new marketplaces and ecosystems where innovations are traded and, in the process, upending the traditional rules of the financial services market. To read the story, download the latest Tracker. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

It’s no secret that banks and FinTechs are collaborating at a rate faster than ever before. The need is there for a comprehensive approach for risk management, which in turn means that both FinTechs and FIs need a strong, consistent strategy and roadmap from the very start of collaborations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) have been scrambling to bring these services to web and mobile channels in response, and are partnering with FinTechs to make these changes as quickly as possible. Biometric security systems are just one example of the major technological investments banks have made in recent years.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

While many credit unions had already begun implementing digital technologies before the health crisis began, they were forced to radically accelerate their efforts after stay-at-home and social distancing protocols gave them little choice. Coast Capital On The Innovations Driving CUs’ Digital-First Future.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

The report included several recommendations for banks, FinTechs and other financial services players — guidelines to establish an industry-driven framework for governing the system and encourage further research and investment in emerging financial technologies. faster payment system. Faster Payments Are Here To Stay’.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. APIs invite innovative changes to banking. To read the story, download the latest Tracker. .

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CB Insights

JUNE 29, 2017

Missed out on the Future of Fintech conference? Sign up to download the presentation and slides. The Chinese market has significant potential for consumer financial technology firms. Startups can leverage the massive amount of data that Chinese consumers share online … Continued.

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William Mills

JANUARY 25, 2018

Key areas of focus include:1) the impending war for talent; 2) shift to back-office or banker technologies; 3) gap in resources between large and small financial institutions; and 4) how service professionals could be the big winner this year. Please download the full report [link]. Branch Technologies. Future Innovations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

during the past two months, for example, and mobile banking app downloads saw a 60 percent jump. Many have been carefully coordinating their digital offerings to move away from outdated core banking infrastructures, but they must pick up the pace on their innovations. Online account openings have increased 14.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The trio recently announced that Australian customers who own an Amazon Echo smart speaker would be able to check on personal finances using voice technology, and all via the creation of banking skills for Amazon’s Alexa AI software. Meanwhile, Emma Technologies LTD has celebrated an AI milestone. contact-form-7]. About the Tracker.

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