Fintech News

MARCH 6, 2024

Are digital first banks in Asia poised to lead a disruptive charge against well-entrenched, established commercial banks? In the traditional banking sphere globally, but especially true in Asia, there is a considerable proportion of unbanked and underbanked populations who lack complete or any access to banking services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said. banks at the time. The Trouble With “Not Being A Bank”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They’re also taking their toll on the non-bank mortgage lenders that proliferated in the good old days of zero or near-zero interest rates, compliments of the Federal Reserve. The Incredible Shrinking Non-Bank Mortgage Lending Market. Instead, they often rely on short-term bank loans – now also at a more expensive rate.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

say they have used contactless card technology to make a payment since the technology was first launched in September 2007. The credit card company’s annual Digital Payments report, released Friday (Sept. 1) and sent to PYMNTS, found that two-thirds of the 2,000 consumers surveyed in the U.K. More than a third of U.K.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Originating, processing, and underwriting a home loan with a large bank lender still requires faxes and snail mail and take almost as long as it did 20 years. Non-bank lenders are becoming much bigger players in mortgages. In 2011, three banks accounted for half of new mortgage loans, according to the Washington Post.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Interest rates plummeted as the Fed held the federal funds rate at zero in the hopes of stimulating lending in an environment where credit went from dangerously free-flowing to dangerously non-existent in the span of a few months. Big banks have moved away from the segment in general — and from subprime borrowers in specific.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Preliminary charges have been filed against Denmark’s biggest lender, Danske Bank, over allegations that it violated the country’s money laundering laws, according to a report by Reuters. The charges are related to the bank’s branch in Estonia. The bank’s shares were barely affected by the scandal, trading 0.7

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FICO

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

With the rise of Open Banking, this trend is now hitting financial services. Are you ready to become a banking ecosystem? Up until 2007, seven companies shared 99% of global mobile phone profits : Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, RIM and HTC. The 2020s will be the age of Open Banking. Are You Ready?

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If Amazon can get you lower-debt payments or give you a bank account, you’ll buy more stuff on Amazon.”. Based on our findings, it’s hard to claim that Amazon is building the next-generation bank. In aggregate, these product development and investment decisions reveal that Amazon isn’t building a traditional bank that serves everyone.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2017

In 2007 — just before the economic crack-up — sub-prime credit lending was worth $115 billion. Was it banks chasing profits they shouldn’t have by allowing consumers to over-leverage themselves — or did consumers let their eyes get bigger than their bank accounts and spend way beyond their means when they knew better?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

But money was just the problem: due diligence oversights on Caterpillar’s part and alleged “deliberate, multi-year, coordinated accounting misconduct” at Siwei were uncovered months after the deal closed and Caterpillar took a $580M non-cash goodwill impairment write-down in 2012. Bank of America and Countrywide.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

“Just over a decade ago, checks were the predominant type of noncash payment in the United States, while, one by one, starting in 2007, non-prepaid debit card, then credit card, and then ACH payments (with debit transfers and credit transfers combined) overtook check.”. billion in that timeframe. billion in that timeframe.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

That is how the world first met the iPhone a little over ten years ago in January 2007, when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce Apple’s latest and greatest innovation. And on June 29, 2007, we finally got it. The gig economy, which was largely non-existent a decade ago, now employs 4.1 These are not three separate devices.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In Poland, it’s fair to say that cash is still king,” stated Joanna Erdman, director of core service and non-banking products at mBank, one of the largest banks in Poland. Most recently, cash share usage in Poland experienced a surge from 2000 until 2007. Cash’s reign, however, could be coming to an end.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank captured a lot of headlines with the release of its online lending study – particularly due to its use of the words “predatory” and “needs additional regulation.” Moreover, Demyanyk noted, these loans looked weaker, not stronger, over time, something that she feels is déjà vu all over again.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Increasingly, digital strategy is in the purview of banks and non-bank lenders, who in turn are seeking pairings with FinTechs. During the interview, he said that “we’re looking to work with six banks to facilitate cross-border transactions, as well as eCommerce.” As noted in Insurance Business America , U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

However, Deutsche Bank analyst Jeriel Ong has doubts about the sustainability of Apple’s recent meteoric rise. Meanwhile, Bank of America lowered its rating on Apple last week, arguing that the shares’ rocket-like gains aren’t sustainable in the near term. In the first week, iTunes Store customers bought more than 1 million songs.

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FICO

MAY 12, 2020

The last five years have delivered a Royal Commission , digitisation, open banking, customer-centric decisioning, and comprehensive credit reporting. Consumers also reported having decreased their expenditure on other non-essential categories such as office and stationery and beauty and cosmetics.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Alternative and marketplace lending platforms promised faster, easier SMB lending than traditional banks could deliver and eventually led traditional financial institutions (FIs) to collaborate with their one-time rivals as they realized they needed to offer more technologically advanced lending experiences to their small business customers.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. From big banks to big tech. get the REPORT on next generation investors.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

ILCs are used to form industrial loan companies, better known as industrial banks. An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956.

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FICO

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Before the iPhone was released in 2007, mobile phones were just phones. And, at FICO, we believe it’s only a matter of time before the banking industry is replicating this kind of AI for collections. In their research, they found that a digital omnichannel approach is achieving results such as: 20-25% reduction in non-performing loans.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 30, 2015

The Fed''s latest mobile banking/payments usage numbers ( full text ) were bouncing around the fintech blogosphere last week. The only sour note was the flatline of mobile banking usage among smartphone owners. Why has smartphone mobile banking stalled? And banking is the only app I use that requires constant logging in.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

The deal is one that seeks to bring mobile banking to underbanked consumers and also, in terms of demographics, to millennials. That funding will be slated for small business loans via securitization. The next largest deal on the radar was BankMobile, which was sold by Customers Bancorp for $175 million. Enter HowGood.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

9, 2016, a surprise announcement by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonetized 500 and 1,000-rupee bank notes, essentially removing from circulation 86 percent of the country’s currency (in a heavily cash-reliant society). However, the movement leading up to adoption of mobile banking has been very, very slow. billion, a 0.6

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Still, how hard would it be to throw a couple non-denominational snowflakes on top of your logo and wish everyone a happy holiday? In our annual holiday survey of the 25 largest banks, we found only two, PNC Bank and Key , that acknowledged the year-end holidays on their homepages. ———-. 2016 Holiday Messages.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 31, 2017

Identity assurance provider Signicat added a new tool this week to help banks meet new PSD2 standards and reduce customer abandonment. Signicat also showed off Signicat Sign , a digital signature solution that ensures the origin and integrity of the document while maintaining non-repudiation from the sender.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2018

After a non-fatal virus called “mosaic” infected the tulip population, causing “flames” of color to appear on the petals, prices spiked even higher, as people clamored to buy the most desirable variations. There was so much money to be made that banks were lending to prospective buyers with subprime credit.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon opined plainly in late 2015 that bitcoin would not survive: “This is my personal opinion, there will be no real, non-controlled currency in the world,” said Dimon.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon opined plainly in late 2015 that bitcoin will not survive: “This is my personal opinion, there will be no real, non-controlled currency in the world,” said Dimon.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Acorns’ rock-bottom customer acquisition costs as driven by non-viral referral. For the non-exited companies — Robinhood, Acorns, Stash, and Credit Karma — we looked at which apps had the highest rates of user growth and what’s driving expansion. bank accounts. debit & credit cards. income information.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 23, 2015

At BAI’s Global Banking Innovation Awards, the company won accolades for Most Innovative Non-Bank Financial Services Organization. . Lending Club debuted at the first Finovate in 2007. The company went public in December 2014. The market cap is at $4.32

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 23, 2016

One of the world’s most innovative, fintech-friendly banks just onboarded a new boss. subsidiary BBVA Compass has named former Garanti Bank deputy CEO, Onur Genç as its new CEO. ” Genç will replace Manolo Sanchez, who became CEO of BBVA Compass in 2008 and will transition into a new role of non-executive chairman.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Is it “a bot time” for peeps in payments to get on board and confront the reality that bots are today what apps were in 2007 and 2008? Which is one reason WeChat has had trouble getting non-Chinese users outside of China. And whether these primitive and simplistic experiences will poison the bot well. So, what gives?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

To put these numbers into perspective, estimates are that over a few years the Great Recession of 2007 – 2010 destroyed 8.7 While this technology has the potential to reduce manual labor, it faces regulatory challenges and still requires a human driver for non-highway driving. million jobs in the US.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 14, 2017

The company’s platform leverages live video and identity document verification, as well as authentication by bank account and the GOV.UK Signicat Sign is the company’s digital signature technology which helps ensure the integrity, origin, and non-repudiation of digital documents. Founded in January 2007.

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