CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2022

On July 18, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) announced the launch of a new Office of Financial Technology with the goal of advancing effective risk management as it evaluates fintech developments in the housing finance space. It also solicits feedback on how to maximize stakeholder engagement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Over the years, that surge in competition gave way to a more collaborative spirit between traditional financial institutions (FIs) and FinTechs as both sides worked to digitize and modernize SMB financing. Flexible Technology. What's just as important is to ensure that lending technology is flexible.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A convergence of economic and marketplace factors presents community banks with new opportunities for innovation and growth as they look to the new year. The fintech landscape is shifting. have begun investing in fintech providers that can arm them with the capabilities to bundle their services and streamline processes.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 25, 2016

I’ve been presenting a summary of Digital Bank and ValueWeb for a few months now. If you have half an hour free, then you can watch the presentation. It’s been filmed … The post The future of banking, money and finance [Presentation] appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 23, 2017

They manage the Fintech Istanbul program, and are the powerhouse behind many of the innovations we’ve seen in Turkey from mobile wallets to contactless payments. We may describe Turkish banking sector as strong, innovative, modern and well-regulated. Could you please tell us a bit about banking sector in Turkey?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Cross-border FinTech efforts have seen increasing participation from central banks and monetary authorities. The MOU dictates that the banks will train FinTech startups with an eye on cross-border transactions. The Fed And FinTech Firms. The banks have also agreed to share data on emerging markets.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 14, 2018

What is the best way to make solutions for the fintech sector meet the high requirements of challenging customers, especially while every bank is rushing towards digitization? Ever-newer technologies are currently presented by […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The real estate industry is a popular target for FinTech innovators, particularly when it comes to new services and products that target renters and homeowners. The opportunities of real estate FinTech are vast, and innovation is far from slowing down, according to Ian M. Back-Office Innovation.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Here are critical facts to know about some of the most popular BNPL service platforms: Afterpay: Afterpay was founded in Australia in 2014 but was acquired by fintech Square earlier this year. Fintech enthusiasts should also keep a close watch on Apple’s newly unveiled BNPL system, Apple Pay Later.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These market conditions may not seem ripe for FinTech innovation, but where there are challenges, there are opportunities. Michael Sassoon, CEO of banking and technology firm Sasfin , recently told PYMNTS about some of the country’s biggest hurdles in small business FinServ — and what technology innovators hope to do about them.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. That’s the easy part, the stuff of daydreams, scribbles, memos, charts and PowerPoint presentations. Her observations cover a wide range of topics, but among the main themes is to look beneath the surface of technology, processes and innovation ideas. FinTech Partnerships.

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William Mills

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The show aims to drive digital transformation and innovation in the credit union industry, giving fintechs a platform to present their technologies to an audience of credit unions, credit union service organizations (CUSOs), credit union leagues and league service corporations, as well as fintech investors.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

The 2020 Credit Union Innovation Index , conducted in partnership with PSCU , found that over 20 percent of members would drop their current CU over lack of innovation. The share of CU members reporting they were willing to change primary FIs over insufficient innovation increased by 4.6 percent to 21.9 Competitive Threats.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks' embrace of FinTech is often driven by consumers' growing demand for a more seamless and unified experience. This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaboration and open banking initiatives finds treasury management in the spotlight. But corporates can benefit from industry collaboration, too. Tink & Enel X.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2020

The rise of FinTechs in the last decade – and the millions of customers they’ve siphoned away from mainstream financial institutions (FIs) – has changed the landscape for banks. Innovation is no longer optional – it’s table stakes to stay in the game. Some FIs are ready to innovate, and some aren’t. The New Core Competencies.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. Many fintech venture funds are gaining steam in the industry, and AOBA was a fertile ground to attract new investor commitments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has announced the creation of the Fintech Advisory Group to bridge the communication gap between the FinTech industry and consumer organizations, the organization said in a release. The group members will be picked based on expertise across all FinTech -related issues.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Those are some of the common myths of innovation , and they apply to the payments world. Moving past those myths, and finding deeper truths about payments innovation, was the underlying result of a recent PYMNTS webinar, featuring Karen Webster and Amir Wain, founder and CEO of i2c , an integrated commerce and smart payments firm. “

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) is launching an initiative called the FinCEN Innovation Hours Program, as a call to private sector companies that have developed tech to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, the organization said in a release. FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 19, 2017

I just attended an EFMA conference where the opening presentation talked about the most innovative banks in the world. They may or may not be, you can decide, as I’m posting some of their stories here. These are the ones I quite liked, so it’s not exhaustive.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

But FinTechs and financial institutions are increasingly crafting partnerships designed to help them both thrive in this global world of digital payment and commerce. And technology — in this case, mobile point-of-sale technology — can serve as a kind of matchmaker. And Commonwealth has been one of the innovation leaders.”.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2017

When it comes to fintech, artificial intelligence has a seemingly endless range of possibilities to transform present systems, so long as the AI system that is applied is constructed with the correct values Read More. AI systems may be getting smarter with the ever-expanding flow of data, but are they also getting more ethical?

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 30, 2016

Alternative providers and FinTech companies present a double-edged risk to traditional banks. It may come as a surprise to many of us that consumers are generally satisfied with their banking relationships. However, this doesn’t mean that banks have nothing to worry about. First, there is the eminent danger of a Read More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

But only in recent years has FinTech innovation stepped into the market — to not only mitigate the risk of a power imbalance between the buyer and supplier, but also to add value for end users. Factoring and supply chain finance are cash flow strategies that have been in place for decades.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Those market conditions present interesting obstacles and opportunities for everyone in the banking FinTech space. Today, Misys is gearing up for another overhaul that similarly reflects times of flux and progress in banking technology and corporate finance. The company will merge with DH Corp.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For all of the innovation that's occurred in the banking landscape, it's often consumers – not corporates – that benefit from the latest technologies. As Dux explained, FinTechs have enabled banks to ease the "build-versus-buy" debate and more easily access tools that can be integrated into the back office. The Drive To Upgrade.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Top tech news in November: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's appointee to the Office of Financial Technology comes into question, Mint's closure presents opportunities for banks, bank and fintech leaders look towards generative artificial intelligence for innovation and more.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s time to move beyond merely presenting data and toward helping customers take informed action on their finances with that data, according to Jonas Karles, co-founder and COO of Minna Technologies, a PFM provider for subscription and recurring payment management. We've done the pie chart thing,” he told Bank Innovation. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2019

Reuters reported Lagarde said that technology companies’ use of big data and AI i ncreases big tech companies’ dominance in the mobile payments market, which could result in policymakers around the world rethinking how they regulate the banking system and how they ensure financial settlements are made safely and securely. “A

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Fast-forward to the present, and Afterpay now counts more than 11 million active customers at 63,000 retailers – and most recently reported doing $2.1 One is regulatory trends, where regulators are looking to increase competition in this field and drive innovation. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 30, 2016

I was piqued by Victor Matarranz’s [SEVP Head of Group Strategy and Chairman’s Office, Banco Santander] presentation at MoneyConf last week, mainly because he began by talking about Fintech 1.0 versus Fintech 2.0. Fintech 1.0

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Shifting employee landscapes, changes in workers’ demands over how and when they get paid, and technological innovation have combined to open the floodgates for payroll FinTech. A Higher Technological Standard. “Technology and apps are the way forward.” Unlike the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And with a nod toward capital market innovation, Bergeron predicted “a lot of money will run to them until there’s too much money in them.”. Beyond the investment vehicles themselves, the secular and organic trends do indeed point toward growth, with an underpinning of technology that is moving companies into the digital age.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

A majority (55 percent) of corporate professionals identified real-time payments as their top B2B payment service priority, according to the Real-Time Payments Innovation Playbook. With innovation comes new challenges. The real estate market also recently saw innovations. Security vs. Friction.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It may be conventional wisdom to assume that banks and FinTech firms are on opposite ends of the financial services spectrum, where large, asset-rich, traditional financial institutions (FIs) stand in stark contrast to small, bootstrapped tech upstarts, competing for clients’ attention and spend. The Strategy of Process.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Innovation foundation Nesta has announced the 20 FinTechs chosen to compete for a $6.5 million prize as the company looks to boost innovation in the small business banking space. As part of its Open Up Challenge, announced in February, Nesta called for FinTechs that are using APIs to disrupt small business banking.

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