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Weekly Wrap: Luge Capital courts early-stage fintechs, as payment providers rustle with UX and data privacy

Bank Innovation

In this episode, Suman Bhattacharyya, deputy editor, and Angely Mercado, associate editor, discuss the following news developments: Canadian venture firm Luge Capital’s approach to fintech investments; How banks are navigating Zelle’s UX as transaction volume grows; and […].

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PFM MoneyLion’s Appeal to Millennials, Gen Z Is Simplicity, Says ‘Godfather of Fintech’

Bank Innovation

A focus on simplicity and UX design that intimately appeals to younger users such as millennials and Gen Z users, fintech investor Ron Suber told Bank Innovation. EXCLUSIVE—What’s behind the growth of personal finance management platform MoneyLion?

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REPORT: Payment Tech Tops FIs’ Innovation Agendas

PYMNTS

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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UX Design is Next Big Hurdle for Banks, Vested Ventures Says

Bank Innovation

To move forward, financial institutions are going to have to take a closer look at the user experience, Eric Hazard, CEO for fintech venture capital […]. EXCLUSIVE— With the help of APIs and other technologies, U.S. banks are mastering the use and sharing of data, but the next challenge is going to be even more technical.

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Help us to complete this Banking API Wiki on Fintech Genome

Bank Innovation

A major theme that we track on Daily Fintech is the “programmable bank”, how innovation is enabled by APIs that abstract complex layers of utility services so that innovators can focus on “rebundling” (creating new UX based on integrating unbundled best of breed services). We are also big believers in Read More.

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Design Lab Will Fuel USAA’s AI, UX Efforts, Exec Says

Bank Innovation

Most established banks already have “innovation labs” – which focus on identifying fintech trends and partnerships – in place, and many test distributed ledger technology applications in “blockchain labs.” Labs – focus units tasked to tackle specific technologies and ideas – have been growing in popularity among banks lately.

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Why The Bank-FinTech Relationship Is More Complicated Than Conflicted

PYMNTS

The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Instead, as PYMNTS has regularly reported, the situation is much less black-and-white than the article suggests.

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