March 25, 2021
NatWest Integrates Trust Factor Into Digital-First Approach
In a battle, you fight with the weapons you’ve got. That’s true in corporate warfare, too, and especially in financial services, where traditional, entrenched players, like banks and credit unions,...
October 06, 2020
Increasing Digital Banking Options Put Pressure On Big Lenders To...
At a time of increased consumer use and acceptance of the new COVID-era digital lifestyle, the pressure is mounting on large, legacy lenders to accelerate their innovations – or become...
August 04, 2020
BBVA On Google, Digital Banking And The Rise Of The...
When the story of the coronavirus is written, when it comes to financial services, the key chapters will focus on the pace at which innovation accelerated — and where a range of...
August 03, 2020
BBVA Teams With Google Pay To Offer Digital Bank Accounts
BBVA USA is collaborating with Google to offer consumers a digital bank account through Google Pay. The Alabama-based bank holding company said the partnership is key to its strategy of growing the...
August 03, 2020
Google Expands Digital DDA Program To Six New FIs
Six additional U.S. banks and credit unions (CUs) have signed on to offer checking and savings accounts through Google Pay. BankMobile, BBVA USA, BMO Harris, The Coastal Community Bank, First...
June 10, 2020
Pandemic Leveling Playing Field Between Banks And FinTechs?
The battle between traditional financial institutions (FIs) and tech-nimble FinTech challengers has been a pitched one. As marquee names like Morgan Stanley, Citi and others have competed with the likes...
May 12, 2020
Green Dot and the Changing (Digital) Face of Banking
If the landscape of how we bank is changing – toward digital-first firms, of course – the question arises: Just what is a bank? And where do consumers want to bank? We got...
April 24, 2020
SoFi Deals Point To Question: ‘Just What’s a Bank?’
The rise of FinTech, the increasing globalization of finance — and even ravages of the coronavirus, which is making us all bank and transact across phones — all have pointed...
April 13, 2020
The Many Answers To ‘What Is A Bank?’
The definition of a bank was more or less unchanged for centuries. Then, within a matter of a few years, the old definitions have become more of a starting place...