Great idea, perfect timing. That about sums up the enviable position in which digital-first banking finds itself post-pandemic, given the mass epiphany of the past three months: you don’t have to physically go near a bank to access the most advanced banking features available. “Consumers...
Americans are known the world over for many things, but financial literacy isn’t one of them. We’re not known for being a nation of expert money managers. GoBankingRates offered up a six-question money quiz a bit back to the public to let consumers test their inherent knowledge of financial...
Banks worldwide are undergoing digital transformations to provide the latest and most advanced services and technologies to their customers, such as remote loan applications, video tellers and biometric-enabled ATMs. These tools are not developed in a vacuum, however. They require cooperation from FinTechs and other...
While APIs have played a critical role in enabling digital-first banking experiences, their rollout is not always smooth. A lack of standardization often poses obstacles to partnering banks and FinTechs. In this month’s Digital-First Banking Tracker, Christoph Berentzen, head of API banking at Commerzbank, discusses...
The global financial space has been severely impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines preventing customers from visiting bank branches to access the services they need. Financial institutions (FIs) have been scrambling to bring these services to web and mobile...
The pandemic has accelerated the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, giving rise to more innovation in the past few months than had been seen over the course of several years. And according to five observers across the spectrum of traditional financial institutions (FIs),...
There is a long-running debate in the world of traditional banking when it comes to how to consider the recent rise of challenger banks. There are those who view the coming rise of FinTech and Big Tech challengers as an existential threat to traditional banks....
The pandemic is accelerating the shift to digital at speeds no one could have imagined just a few months ago. But there have been gaps along with the pivot, where paper- and courier-based documents have held sway, and where signatures are required to get things...
You’ve got to hand it to the internet. A pandemic breaks out, everyone’s ordered to work at home or just plain stay at home — where we shop online, live on connected devices, soak up barrels of bandwidth, heat up server farms, strain broadband and...
