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Inside The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Innovation Strategy

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EXCLUSIVE – Traditional banks cannot afford to ignore fintechs. What started out as a nascent subsect of the broader financial space is now at the forefront of how people bank. The impact of fintechs on how people bank has not gone unnoticed by The Royal Bank of Scotland, who over the past 18 months under […].

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Why Automation is Key to Chesapeake Bank’s Innovation Strategy for 2019

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Automation is the theme that best describes Chesapeake Bank’s innovation roadmap for 2019, Kevin Wood, managing director of the state-chartered community bank’s business lending division, Cash Flow, told Bank Innovation. “One

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Square revises credit risk model for its SMB lending program

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An update to Square’s credit risk model for its Square Capital commercial lending product — first disclosed yesterday — was “a key driver of Capital’s outperformance in the fourth quarter,” the company said. The advancement of Capital is key for Square as it continues to grow the fast-growing — and lucrative — lending product.

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Funding Circle surpasses $10b in loans, plans aggressive partnership strategy

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based peer-to-peer lending platform, hit a $10 billion milestone in loans to small- to medium-sized (SME) businesses on Thursday. The nine-year-old company plans to continue to develop its “partnership strategy,” Bernard Martinez, U.S. managing director at Funding Circle, told Bank Innovation. In the U.S.,

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Digital and human: Inside BofA’s small business strategy

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It’s a strategy that’s yielding results for the bank. Digital-only lenders tout the speed and efficiency of their user experiences. However, for Bank of America, a “human-digital” approach is the cornerstone of its small business banking approach.

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Compound data: the key to digitized lending

Bank Innovation

Aside from operations and strategy, one of the biggest reasons is limited funding or lack of timely cash flow. A staggering 90% of small- to medium-sized enterprises fail. This is no surprise given that 72% of SME loans are rejected; it takes three months for SME borrowers to get their cash; and still 52% of […].

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Inside the U.S expansion plans of OakNorth, an aspiring ‘Bloomberg of SME lending’

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expansion strategy. based digital lender OakNorth is using its tech platform as the pillar of its U.S. The company, which has a U.K. banking license and is currently valued at $2.8

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