Branch International, an Andreessen-backed startup, is vying to become a pan-African digital bank, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 1). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...
Almost two out of every three consumers are comfortable opening new accounts digitally, compared to less than half saying they prefer to manage their existing loan accounts that way, according to PYMNTS’ February 2022 edition of “Account Opening And Loan Servicing In The Digital Environment”....
There aren’t many FinTech start-ups born out of viral Twitter posts. But in 2015, a tweet from a woman in Nigeria who had broken open a wooden box she had saved 1,000 Naira (about $5) in every day for a year sparked a conversation around...
Americans have opened new accounts, taken out additional loans and carried balances in the past year, and many showed preferences for managing all of this digitally. But they remain concerned about cybersecurity — and the real risk that sharing their financial data over multiple digital...
Lael Brainard, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, said the rapidly changing digital finance world, with its decentralized focus, will necessitate the Fed change its ways, too. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Financial services providers have an opportunity to help the unbanked and underbanked, graduate them to fully banked and retain them as regular customers. Orlando Zayas, CEO at Katapult, says they can do this by offering a combination of immediate solutions to include them into the...
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There may be no financial services product quite as universal as the checking account. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...
Twenty-six percent of Americans have a disability of some kind, and FIs must design their digital and in-person solutions with this in mind. In the latest Digital-First Banking Tracker, Truist’s Miranda Capra talks about the role of alternate text options and multichannel support to boost...
