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B2B PaymentsCommunity FIs Battle Against Low Interest Rates To Help SMBs...
When the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) rolled out in the U.S., smaller community banks...
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Digital BankingChime, Challenger Banks And The Challenges Of (Lofty) Valuations
On a day that saw a stock market rout – particularly on the tech-heavy...
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B2B PaymentsOpen Banking Tie-Ups Challenge SMB Banking Incumbents
PSD2 and open banking regulations were forged to accelerate competition in the financial services...
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B2B PaymentsAgora Services Debuts New Tools For SMB Banking
Challenger bank Agora Services wants to address challenges with banking for small businesses with...
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credit union trackerCredit Unions Tackle Tech On Multiple Fronts
Credit unions (CUs) are shaking off the last vestiges of their image problem (in...
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Credit UnionsDeep Dive: Credit Unions Respond To The Threat Of Digital-First...
Credit unions (CUs) have competed with banks that offer similar products for years, but...
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Digital BankingMonzo CEO Hopes New Accounts Can Blunt Pandemic’s Impact
New Monzo CEO TS Anil said the U.K. company, badly damaged by the pandemic,...
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Credit UnionsHow CUs Can Hone Their Digital Strategies To Face The...
Credit unions have long prided themselves on offering better in-person service, but with lockdowns...
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Cloud BankingDeep Dive: Embracing A Multicloud Strategy For Staying Atop Changing...
Financial institutions (FIs) are fast coming to realize the need and importance of using...
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Credit UnionsBECU On Why It Pays To Think Like A Challenger...
Consumers’ affinity for online banking solutions, especially mobile banking, is far from new. The...
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Cloud BankingWhen FIs Move To The Cloud, It Pays To Start...
Financial institutions (FIs) are still struggling to respond to the rise in digital banking...
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Digital BankingMonzo Launches New Premium Consumer Banking Accounts
U.K. digital bank Monzo is taking another crack at offering premium online consumer banking...
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Credit UnionsNew Report: Aiding Pandemic-Related Financial Hardships Key To Credit Union...
Credit union (CU) members are traditionally loyal, but the accelerated shift to digital banking...
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Cloud BankingN26: Cloud-Banking Core Key To Meeting Consumers’ Mobile Banking Needs
Financial institutions (FIs) worked quickly to ensure they could operate smoothly as the pandemic...
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NewsThis Week In Payments: Digital Banking, Financial Literacy And Expanded...
The world of payments and commerce continues to be a very busy place as...
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Digital BankingWill Credit Sesame’s Digital Banking Push STACK Up?
The challenger bank space is having a bit of a moment. LendingClub is buying...
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Digital BankingPandemic Leveling Playing Field Between Banks And FinTechs?
The battle between traditional financial institutions (FIs) and tech-nimble FinTech challengers has been a...
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Credit UnionsCredit Unions’ Bid To Bridge The Challenger Bank Perception-vs.-Reality Gap
In the battle against digital challenger banks, credit unions (CUs) may be facing a...
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Digital PaymentsFIs: Build For A Digital Future Or Lose Customers
The degree to which consumers’ lives have gone digital over the past two or...
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B2B PaymentsPayroll Gears Up To Leapfrog Into APIs, Faster Payments
Centuries-old banks have been operating on decades-old infrastructure, leaving many traditional financial institutions (FIs)...
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Cloud BankingDeep Dive: Legacy Banks And The Infrastructure Stumbling Blocks Keeping...
An expanding number of challenger banks have eschewed the industry’s traditionally slow and steady...
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Cloud BankingWhy Bunq Banks On The Cloud For An Innovative Edge
Nine out of 10 banks still rely on old-school mainframe systems for their core...
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Cloud BankingWhat Legacy FIs Miss About The Need For Cloud-Based Infrastructure
Financial institutions (FIs) have been adapting their platforms and technologies to better suit the...
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Digital-First BankingFIs Or FinTechs: Who Will Power Banking’s Big Digital Shift?
The pandemic has accelerated the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, giving rise...
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Credit UnionsCredit Unions Size Up Challenger Banks
The pandemic has been a moment of truth, a reckoning of sorts, for businesses...
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Digital-First BankingWhat Banking’s 'Wave Three' Might Look Like
There is a long-running debate in the world of traditional banking when it comes...
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Credit UnionsNEW DATA: How Credit Unions Fare Against Challenger Banks
Brick-and-mortar presence used to give credit unions (CUs) a competitive edge over digital-only challenger...
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BankingGreen Dot and the Changing (Digital) Face of Banking
If the landscape of how we bank is changing – toward digital-first firms, of...
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B2B PaymentsSmall Businss Banking Secures New FinTech Unicorn
There may be talk of a venture capital slowdown, but B2B FinTech saw a...
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B2B PaymentsChallenger Banks Raise The Stakes (And The Cash)
With $68 million in combined venture capital funding, this week's B2B FinTech investments are...
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Credit UnionsInnovation Is Key to Credit Union Survival
Credit union (CU) members are known for loyalty to these financial affinity groups, but...
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Credit UnionsNEW DATA: The Innovations Credit Union Members Need To Stick,...
Credit unions (CU) members have a reputation of being loyal to their financial institution...
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Digital BankingChallenger Bank Aion Launches In Belgium With Subscription Model
New subscription-only bank Aion is launching in Belgium, and it wants customers to be...
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B2B PaymentsRBS Fund Takes Back £50M From Metro Bank
After Metro Bank recently pulled back from plans to expand and decided to move away...
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Digital BankingChallenger Bank Battle In Full Swing In UK
In banking, in the jockeying and jousting for consumers’ attention (and deposits, of course),...
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Digital BankingDigital Banking Apps Vs The Establishment
Dubbed “challenger banks” for shaking up the status quo of banking as we’ve always...
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BankingNCR: How FIs Can Triumph Over the Challenger Bank Challenge
For traditional financial institutions (FIs), especially smaller FIs and credit unions (CUs), the age...
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CommentaryThe Week In Payments: China, China, Challenger Banks And Bitcoin
If there were a theme in the big headlines this week in payments, financial...
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B2B PaymentsChallenger Bank Praxia Fails In Greece
Greek challenger bank Praxia, founded by British-American banker and former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond,...
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B2B PaymentsB2B Neobank Qonto Gets $115M In Series C Round
Qonto, a French startup Neobank that caters to B2B clients, has raised $115 million...
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Digital BankingGoogle Pay Co-founders' Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M
Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2 million in a Seed...
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RegulationPSD2 And The Turkish Banking Opportunity
FinTechs see PSD2 as an opportunity to get a leg up with legacy banks....
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Alternative FinancesAfter The Disruption: Alt-Banking Goes Straight, Chases Bad Guys
As alt-banking matures and FinTechs mushroom, challenger banks are losing their cool “disruptor cred”...
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Digital BankingDeep Dive: How The Challenger Bank Technology Gap Is Helping...
Fraudsters are approaching their less-than-ethical business models with healthy work ethics. Headlines are filled...
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Today In DataHow Used Cars And Sales Taxes Are Building The Digital...
Can digital technology really take the hassle out of used car sales – and...
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Digital BankingInside N26’s Strategy To Win US Customers
Challenger banks with a couple of operating years behind them are beginning to get...
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InvestmentsThe Venture Investing Road Less Traveled: Funding Enablers, Not Challengers
High-flying tech unicorns have been brought to earth. Venture capital dollars chase Neobanks and alternative...
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Payments InnovationDoes ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes?
Banks and credit unions are certainly not on their way out, even as they...
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Today In DataHow ‘Ghosts’ And Visuals Build Better Commerce Ecosystems
“Ghost” kitchens are changing the food delivery game as shopping embraces better visual technology....
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BankingThe Challenges Challenger Banks Must Overcome To Compete
Challenger banks — financial firms offering something much like banking services, and looking to...
