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Market First, Regulation Later? The American Open Banking Journey

Open Banking Excellence

One data aggregator said: “We have thousands of clients that have a wide breadth of size and purpose. They range from some of the largest banks in the U.S. to a small midwestern community bank. This requirement might put pressure on smaller banks to implement open banking solutions.

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How Small FIs’ SMB Lending Journeys Nudge The US Toward Open Banking

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For community banks and credit unions, their physical proximity to the small businesses they’re servicing is often pointed out as a major advantage these smaller players hold over the big banks, enabling these FIs to develop deeper relationships with their small to medium-size business (SMB) clients, anticipate their needs and establish trust.

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Hearing On BB&T/SunTrust Merger Raises Questions On Size

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Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts pointed to the fact as many as 740 branches of the banks are within two miles of one another — and he raised concerns about branch closings and job losses. Community banks and credit unions are likely to go out of business, he said, “and they do not have the money to launch these mobile banking platforms.”

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FIs Embrace FinTech Collabs With An Eye On Functionality

PYMNTS

This week’s look at the latest open banking and bank-FinTech collaborative initiatives reveals financial services firms continue to focus on elevated functionality, with data security seemingly more of a background priority. Amex Joins Revolut’s Open Banking Platform. Arvest Bank Taps Finzly Platform.

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JPMorgan Points To Healthy Consumer Spending; Card Transactions Jump 10 Pct.

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Average deposits in the consumer and community banking segment were up 5 percent. Piepszak maintained that customers’ data security and privacy remain of the “utmost importance,” and added that “we think over time the best way to do that as securely as we can is to have third-party apps only access data through our APIs.”

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Chase Earnings Point To Healthy Consumer Spending; Card Transactions Jump 10 Pct.

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Average deposits in the consumer and community banking segment were up 5 percent. Piepszak maintained that customers’ data security and privacy remain of the “utmost importance,” and added that “we think over time the best way to do that as securely as we can is to have third-party apps only access data through our APIs.”

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Merchant Processing Explained: What Happens Behind the Swipe?

Evolve Payment

Issuing Banks & Acquiring Banks When your customer uses their credit card to pay you, two banks get involved: the issuing bank and the acquiring bank. These banks range in size from large international institutions to local community banks.