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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

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After industry consolidation and a leveling-out of venture capital interest, alternative SMB lending remains a strong market, though just like traditional banks, it has also faced new lessons as a result of the current market. “It comes in waves, there’s no doubt about it,” he said about the alt-lending boom.

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It’s Dreadful Being a Buyer of Bank Technology

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As technology buyers, banking executives need to up their game on tech purchases and technology performance management. For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. team focused on UX, data, integration, and risk.

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Personalized Marketing: What Banking Customers Really Want

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However, it’s not always obvious which of the many potential technology vendors and implementation partners will best drive an organization’s desired business goals. blockchain​, digital wallets​, money center banks​, emerging payment solutions, digital lending​, economic turmoil​, and fintech disintermediation).

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Part 1: What is Embedded Finance?

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This blog marks Part 1 of our Embedded Finance Blog Series and will introduce the overarching concept of embedded finance, setting us up to discuss embedded payments, embedded lending, and embedded insurance (all of which fall under the embedded finance umbrella) in future blogs. The Technology Behind Embedded Finance .

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Why Augmented Reality is Crucial to Improving the Ecommerce Customer Experience

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We’ve typically seen that this lends itself to focus on areas such as ratings, reviews, and online price shopping, but trends are now showing there are other effective methods for online, as shoppers want to engage with products both at an experiential level and to ensure the best fit for their needs. Giving the Consumer Control.

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Goldman Sachs To Launch Mobile App For Consumers

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Citing a job listing on the company’s website, Business Insider reported the bank is looking to hire mobile developers for its Consumer Finance Technology unit to build a “best of breed platform that is both elegant and powerful” for its retail bank which is completely digital.

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The BaaS Gold Rush is On

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In this emerging landscape, financial institutions, often community banks, frequently “rent” their charter to financial technology firms (fintechs) that serve a specific consumer group as a means to grow non-interest income. Executives should embrace technology partners as a means of growing and enhancing their customer value proposition.