Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Today the United States celebrates Independence Day, with cookouts and fireworks and no dearth of parades. But across the Pond – regardless of the initial claims last week that Britain had occasioned its own Independence Day via the Brexit vote — for FinTech, freedom is just another word for lots and lots left to lose.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We imagine if presented with an iPhone, penicillin, an automobile or just a ballpoint pen, even the original scribe would have been forced to concede that exciting innovations might be coming up on humanity’s horizon in the intervening 30 centuries. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership. So today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Visa and its India FinTech partner, Open , are rolling out their joint credit card product for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This partnership is a boost for Open as we look to expand our customer base to other markets in the Asia Pacific region, United States and the Middle East in the coming months.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

The largest bank in the United States, J.P. FinTech apps, for example, saw a 72 percent increase in usage in the first quarter of 2020 alone. Financial institutions (FIs) are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel for bouncing back from the pandemic, but the crisis has not been without its casualties.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an impact on open banking developments worldwide as regulators, financial institutions (FIs) and businesses set their sights on helping their current customers rather than future innovations. The aim of open banking is to enable easier connections between FIs, FinTechs and other third parties.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In the latest Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how banks are innovating their strategies for fraud protection and anti-money laundering (AML), all while making sure that legitimate customers remain satisfied with a quick and convenient online banking experience. Banks Are Innovating AML To Keep Out Launderers.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Even with technology’s increasing influence on retail banking, it’s not typical for a community bank to have one of its most senior and trusted executives concentrate primarily on leading consumer product and payments innovation. The role of Alex Jimenez, senior vice president and director of digital and payments innovation at the $7.2

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

At best—its originator and Visa’s SVP and global head of innovation and go-to-market, Shiv Singh, told Karen Webster—back in 2015, it was a mini project, a toe in the water to engage an entirely new audience for Visa: the developer. An Ends-Oriented Approach. In 2018, participating U.S. The Upcoming Season. The easy stuff.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. Singapore stepped onto the global stage as a world leader in blockchain innovation in recent months. United States.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Banks have been playing catch-up with FinTechs in the bid to bring speed to their processes, especially when it comes to B2B payments. The conversation came across a backdrop of more than 50 real-time payment systems currently live around the world, although largely domestic and regional in nature.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

The Seattle metropolitan area had a population of 3,798,902 in 2016, which makes it the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. While 2016 saw the need for 4,000 new tech roles, there were a mere 500 qualified candidates, and the remainder were found outside of the state. Median household income (2015): $70,594.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Third Time’s Finally the Charm for Temenos in the United States? While growing outside the United States for many years and mopping up on the international core system competition, the U.S. This group is known to be pretty adaptive and innovative, so prepare to test the agile skills. T24 clients.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2017

has its lures, with the locale an attractive place for employment, at least as measured by respondents based outside the region, with 57 percent saying the U.K. places ahead of the United States. The trade industry entity known as Innovate Finance estimated earlier this year that investment in the U.K.’s

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Gonzobanker

MAY 17, 2022

For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. This technical friction causes initiatives to slow and allows less room for innovators to deliver new value. unemployment rate in the United States is nothing compared to the striking 1.3%

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

million over the course of the next three years to build up a FinTech hub in Charlotte. Before we jump into the post, here are a few quick facts about Charlotte and its tech scene: The city had a population of 827,097 in 2015, making it the seventeenth largest city in the United States. Median household income (2015): $53,637.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

But Thrive Market, which ships organic groceries to consumers anywhere in the continental United States, is growing. The biggest growth regions for Thrive are in the midwest and southeast, far from the tech hubs that are usually the power center behind grocery and organic goods delivery services. Members pay $60 per year.

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NCR

APRIL 11, 2018

In the United States, the rate of smartphone adoption among mobile users passed the 80 percent mark by the end of 2016, according to comScore. This presents an exciting opportunity for service providers of all kinds – from established banks to fintechs – but first you need to know what people want from the mobile channel.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2016

The co-founder of the FinTech firm Kabbage did something unusual when he found himself with a box full of broken bathroom tiles that were about to put him off schedule by three days. After a little under a year in business the app has 300K downloads and 22K drivers nationwide, even in far flung regions like Alaska and Hawaii.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2016

Fiserv has made a major impact in the Asia Pacific region, with clients in 13 countries in the area including Australia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Nevertheless, the news from Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka arrived as Fiserv also announced two new credit union clients back in the United States. Interested in fintech in Asia?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

There is good news, and there is bad news with regards to the path to addressing the unbanked and underbanked in the United States. Digitization and modernization are key, yet for the regional banks and credit unions that are left in the wake of larger institutions shuttering their branches, the process is a challenge.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 21, 2015

Probably the best example of growing a franchise using branching (at least in the United States over the past 20 years), is Umpqua Bank. It grew from a small community bank to a west coast regional on the back of its innovative branching strategy (Warning! Do not try to copy this, it’s not 1995 any more).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

And, in regions where digital tools have long been available, new innovations are providing more intelligent financial insights than ever before. . Some of the largest banks in the United States and United Kingdom are working to advance their digital banking products with use of artificial intelligence (AI).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

This past week, the tally stood at $349 million, with FinTech at almost $238 million of that. That capital announcement comes despite fears over what Brexit might mean for the FinTech sector across the pond in general, and the peer-to-peer lending sector continues to grow — by some estimates, at about 50 percent annually.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2017

By the end of 2017, nearly $1.8T worth of mortgages will have been originated in the United States this year, according to government-backed mortgage lender Freddie Mac. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. This helped navigate fragmented regional regulations.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 15, 2021

Early on, fintech startups were a small part of its class, although Stripe (S09) and Coinbase (S12) were notable (and extremely profitable) exceptions. When I looked at YCvalums in mid-2014 , there had been just 40 fintech grads in its first 10 years. By region: USA: 20 startups. United States (20). New York, NY.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Every time we build a Finovate presenter headquarters map, we are reminded how geographically diverse fintech innovation has become. Three companies scheduled to demonstrate their latest technologies live on the Finovate stage this week hail from Texas, two from Florida, and five from the Great Lakes region of Wisconsin and Michigan.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Weak sales can make it much harder for innovative food companies to secure additional investment and can jeopardize which stores carry certain products.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 20, 2017

From flying cars to instant connectivity, see the list of 36 companies poised to change the world with innovative tech. Progressa is a fintech company focused on helping sub-prime and near-prime Canadians seeking to improve their financial health. Here are 38 companies targeting those opportunities around the globe. Sparrow Mobile.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2016

Innovation is the engine of America,” Purcell noted. Dimon went on to discuss, at some length, the “mission-critical” services that big banks can supply are the types of things “regional and community banks simply cannot do.”. Buffett is correct. financial services industry does not conform to simple narratives.

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