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Citi Explores The Real-Time Payments User Experience

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The payments industry has been riding the wave of shifting consumer habits and demands, placing the end-user experience at the forefront of new products, services and infrastructure. Those users, both consumers and businesses, aren’t just demanding choice, however. It’s also about all of the value-adds it brings in.

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How 5G Will Shake Up Banking and FinTech?

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Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. Latency Advantages.

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Legacy FIs Losing Sight Of SMB Data Must Step Up With Digital Agility

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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) got their clocks cleaned by the pandemic, and turning to their traditional lending sources, they’ve encountered sclerotic systems and outdated policies not conceived for the needs of the recovering Main Street merchants of 2021. Meanwhile, for many, their primary banking relationships went fallow.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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All-digital, all-tech lending platforms that could deliver better user experiences and faster credit decisioning would become the new normal and take share from banks who were too big and cost-laden to keep — or catch — up. All tout an easy user experience via a mobile app that helps users track and monitor spend.

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Digital-First Banking With A Human Feel

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Banks, and FinTechs particularly are blazing new trails for financial institutions (FIs) wishing to incorporate the best that digital-first banking has to offer, making integrations easier and outcomes better. One does not simply walk into digital-first banking without preparation, however.

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Open Banking Can Scale With Incentives And API Aggregation

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In a discussion with Karen Webster, Samuel-Ogbu talked about the role of API aggregation and how incentives can help to ignite open banking, one of the main efforts now taking place in the world of payments and commerce. You need incentives to swallow up the slightly clunky user experience,” she said. API Aggregation.

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Santander Shows One Way Forward For 5G And Banks

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For financial institutions, the ongoing emergence of the 5G world comes as many of them try to gain an edge in the increasingly mobile world of banking and financial services – a world where FinTech and innovation in general promise to take on more vital roles as PSD2, open banking and other initiatives kick in. Low Latency.

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