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Finding Value In The Digital Banking Lifestyle

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If you look at what Urban FT is doing — that is, merging traditional banking and ASF functionality and then wrapping it with a social layer that drives a digital conversation with the customer — it’s second-generation mobile banking.

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And The Winners Are … The Payments Academy Awards

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Upsets happen, after all, and Lore was the last player to very publicly checkmate Amazon into acquiring the company. There were partnerships — Visa, Mastercard, most notably – and a few big investments in financial inclusion and digital conversion including the Xoom acquisition.