Gonzobanker

JANUARY 18, 2024

That adds up to opportunity for larger banks (>$100 billion in assets) to get into the space more aggressively. A sneak peek into Cornerstone Advisors’ forthcoming What’s Going On In Banking study shows that the percentage of banks looking to get into the banking as a service (BaaS) space is down from previous years. Big surprise, eh?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. THE BANKER AWARDS The Bank Acquisition of the Year – goes to the unique PacWest and Banc of California deal. Employees are back to work. We are in awe.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Takeaway 2 Banks should be proactive in understanding fraud trends and FinCEN priorities to prepare for future rulemaking. Beneficial ownership registry The AMLA was signed into effect in January 2021, paving the way for the first major BSA reform since the PATRIOT Act and encouraging a culture of compliance.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All of you with your hands up… … uh huh. It would have required a few trips to the local dispensary to dream up what bankers have endured this year. In December, the founder and CEO of Crypto Exchange company FTX was arrested in the Bahamas (yah, don’t ask) and charged with fraud and conspiracy. OK, show of hands.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

THE BANKER AWARDS. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Doug Larson. Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic.

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Abrigo

MARCH 21, 2023

With signs continuing to point toward additional rate hikes, albeit smaller, many financial institutions are uncertain how they can and should manage their balance sheets to effectively combat interest rate risk both in the present moment and to come in 2023 and beyond. You might also like this video on managing interest rate risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Is the credit union market ready for its close-up? It’s a market that is showing clear signs of growth. The Shifting Credit Union Market. Staying competitive in the financial market is a priority for credit unions, and many institutions have issued challenges to regulations in recent weeks.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Customers love digital self-service—right up until they don’t, and then they want a live person. In our work with banks and credit unions around the country, an unavoidable truth comes up again and again: Even the flashiest digital strategy falls flat without the backing of a strong contact center.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For a long time, these rock-solid bankers have seen loan officers patronize them with passive encouragement while rarely referring a customer their way and never taking the time to understand their product offerings. There are several factors contributing to the malaise in the cash management solution market today: 1. -Anonymous.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. But that’s for next year. First, find a comfy chair.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 28, 2022

These trends received more support this month when the President signed an Executive Order supporting the legal and equitable use of technology around a digital currency and digital assets ( HERE ). By way of background, we gave bankers a primer on how to work with defi and blockchains a while back ( HERE ).

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FluentBanking

APRIL 18, 2020

Banking diploma is a very common and recognized professional certification from The Institute of Bankers, Bangladesh (IBB). Though there are so many contradictions about this course, every banker wants to pass this certification. Today we are going to provide you a better insight into IBB, Bangladesh, and their banking diploma course.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

On the other hand, bank and credit union cultures have struggled with analytics that have historically been supplied (culturally, pushed , often up hill) as infrastructure buys from cost centers. Recent acquisitions illustrate how data is driving fintech valuations. nCino recently announced. And it doesn’t appear to be hubris.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And, man, did it ever … with the Aliens -esque signs of bankers getting their brains sucked out (or was it minds being blown by presenters, not sure?). Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk implored the crowd to get beyond the marketing talk and stop marketing in the past. Innovation Showcase & Global Innovation Awards.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2021

Download the free report to find out what it will take for challenger banks to develop a meaningful share of the banking market. In contrast, online banking in the US has surged with 73% of consumers using it regularly, up from 46% in 2010. . get the state of challenger banks report. First name. Company Name. Phone number.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.” The overall transaction process is fairly straightforward, and can be benchmarked to the book-building and underwriting that an investment banker does. Tis the season. That’s about $75 billion in hopium.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.” The overall transaction process is fairly straightforward, and can be benchmarked to the book-building and underwriting that an investment banker does. Tis the season. That’s about $75 billion in hopium.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2014

We are seeing it show up lots of places, it’s real and it’s great for this industry. That’s one helluva move up. Cornerstone: Okay, let me back up a second. We could hand you a load of bull about skewering the guilty and praising the exalted, etc., but let’s just dive into it! THE BANKING AWARDS. Buena suerte, Bradley!

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. So far I'm up to five mentions. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market. Analysts are predicting the robo advising market will grow to $489 billion by 2020.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Below, we look at some the worst mergers and acquisitions undertaken by large corporations, and how the good times went bad. The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. Microsoft and Nokia.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Sure, we bought some December options on west Texas crude at $100 a barrel, but it was only with a third of the 401(k)—plenty of time to make that up, right? It’s hard for any banker to avoid gulping at the sheer long-term performance of George Gleason II and his team at the Bank of the Ozarks. ” – Tom Armstrong. That’s two.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. It’s become a familiar story, usually with a new splash. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Money20/20 became quite the event in a very short time, with 10,000 – count ’em – attendees up from 2,300 only three years ago. Continuing on the “Pay” theme, we know all about Apple Pay and the noise it caused in the market last year. The logistics. Would we all take that growth? Big stories/buzz. Apple Pay … not.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change. In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I''ve got another installment or two in the pipeline, but since it''s already starting to feel like we are making our final descent into 2015, I wanted to take a step back and explain WHY those projects rose to the top. brick-and-mortar footprint will fall 30% to 40% by 2020 Thoughts : I get that people like the local branch. It took an hour!

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I like the idea but I am a bit concerned about the potential for fraud from both companies and investors. Check back for new updates throughout the day. An App Store for FinTech applications. I’ve seen these folks before, it’s pretty slick. Showing how someone can connect to other vendors for free for their clients. I need to learn more.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As September is gearing up to go into its last week, the waning warm days of the summer season certainly went out with a bang — care of the largest data breach ever recorded. It’s also a pick-up for Lyft, which can now compete with Uber, which launched its own Instant Pay service with Go Bank earlier this year. Stripe’s Instant Pay.

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FICO

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A plethora of payment apps emerged in 2016, further upping the already densely populated payments landscape. Despite consumer confusion and high levels of market fragmentation, the payments landscape is going to get a lot messier–– brand-specific payment apps seem to be the next big wave—before any kind of front runner(s) emerge.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2016

With the third annual FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2016 only a few weeks away (and tickets still available ), it’s a great time to look back and see what the FinDEVr alums have been up to this year. Teamed up with Harman to safeguard IoT data. Signed deal with Vision FCU to provide its money management app. in one year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But it could be the case that “going with who you know” was a way to get loans processed more quickly, speed funding and short-circuit fraud. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis found the U.S. On Friday (Oct. Treasury Department encouraged banks to prioritize existing customers applying for PPP loans.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. And then there were some uncommon and more dramatic causes of failure, including: Financial fraud. 242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems. via TechCrunch.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It is a vehicle to perpetrate fraud.”. Securities: By tokenizing traditional securities such as stocks, bonds, and alternative assets, the blockchain is upending the structure of capital markets. Last September, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took a stab at Bitcoin: “It’s worse than tulip bulbs. It won’t end well.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2017

” For fear of being shamed publicly, no one is willing to speak up and acknowledge that there’s no real “there-there” when it comes to its use as anything other than the currency of crime and speculation – even though deep down, they know that the emperor has no clothes. “Few people speak out. How right she was.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

So pick up your ticket while you still can and join the 1,500-person gathering in Manhattan September 16 & 17. Market segments include insurance, banks, telecom, utilities, and property management. That means that our annual NYC conference – FinovateFall – is only a two weeks away.

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