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Chime, Challenger Banks And The Challenges Of (Lofty) Valuations

PYMNTS

And within FinTech, that most incandescent of sectors, things might look a bit, well, frothy. This week, Chime, focused on banking via mobile apps, held a $485 million series F funding round that valued the company at $14.5 Accounts are FDIC-insured through a partnership with Bancorp Bank. billion, as CNBC reported.

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Chime, Challenger Banks And The Challenges Of (Lofty) Valuations

PYMNTS

And within FinTech, that most incandescent of sectors, things might look a bit, well, frothy. This week, Chime, focused on banking via mobile apps, held a $485 million series F funding round that valued the company at $14.5 Accounts are FDIC-insured through a partnership with Bancorp Bank. billion, as CNBC reported.

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Fighting Digital with Digital

Independent Banker

Community banks cannot afford to ignore the staggering pace of lending adoption by both individuals and businesses using digital-only platforms from various nonbank technology-based specialty lending firms. FDIC-insured deposits largely solve this problem for banks. Core deposits also come at much lower costs.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

An App Store for FinTech applications. Seamless, consistent experience from computer, mobile phone to physical location. financial institutions are using Liferay. From their web site: Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices. 10% of mobile banking U.S.