Finastra Gains Foothold Among Community Banks with Malauzai Acquisition

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 19, 2018

Finastra, which was formed from the union of Misys and D+H, and calls itself the world’s third largest fintech company in the world, has acquire...

Fifth Third Bank Strives to Make Cincinnati into the Next Fintech Hub

• Monica Melton
• June 19, 2018

PREMIUM - CINCINNATI -- This city might seem like an unlikely place for fintech innovation, but it has the ingredients to be just the right breeding g...

Reach & Relevance — The Key to Mobile Communications [SPONSORED]

• Swrve
• June 19, 2018

Bankers — are you reaching all your current and prospective customers? Do they care about what you have to say? The answer, unfortunately, is mo...

Zelle and Insurance on the Roadmap for BBVA Compass’s Mobile App

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 18, 2018

PREMIUM -  The mobile app is at the top of most banks’ digital strategy. This is especially true for José “Pepe” Olalla, head of business development ...

INV Fintech Revamps Site and Launches New Community, INV Edge

• Philip Ryan
• June 18, 2018

INV Fintech, this site’s sister accelerator, announced today a comprehensive rebrand and the launch of an online community. INV’s brand has been...

Fintech Unfiltered: N26 Decides Against Banking License for U.S. Launch [PODCAST]

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 18, 2018

Should fintech companies with banking ambition get a license or partner with a bank for one? This is an important distinction for a challenger bank, a...

Venmo Announces It Will Remove Payment Functionality from Website

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 15, 2018

Social payments platform Venmo is phasing out certain functionality on its website, venmo.com, including allowing people to make payments there. Wait,...

Should a Bank’s API Collection Be Considered a Channel or Product?

• Philip Ryan
• June 15, 2018

PREMIUM — APIs -- application programming interfaces -- are still in their early days in banking, but are starting to show their promise. Data is flow...

Where is PayU Headed? Follow the Money

• Monica Melton
• June 15, 2018

Emerging markets payments platform PayU is building an in-house data science team. The company’s latest rounds of investment and acquisitions pointed ...

Get Ready for the Bank of the Gig Economy

• Monica Melton
• June 14, 2018

PREMIUM — What do Under Armour and Apple’s Beats by Dre have in common? Talent has been recruited from both companies to kick-start a bank that’s a no...

The Facebook Files: Royal Bank of Canada, Facebook Differ On Why Bank Had Continuing Data Access

• Monica Melton
• June 14, 2018

Royal Bank of Canada and Facebook today offered differing versions of why the social media company continued to give the bank extraordinary access to ...

Poland’s Alior Bank to Launch Standalone Challenger Bank

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 14, 2018

PREMIUM - Add another challenger bank to the mix, this time in Eastern Europe. Polish bank Alior is working on launching a digital-first bank later th...

Credit Unions Move (Slowly) Toward Zelle

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 13, 2018

PREMIUM - Millennials have Venmo, banks have Zelle, but what’s the P2P payments preference for credit unions? It’s not that credit unions cannot conne...

Bank of America’s Goal Is to Have 50% of Sales Come Through Digital

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 13, 2018

PREMIUM - Digital channels will play a larger role in increasing Bank of America’s deposit growth, a key part of the bank's business strategy. Current...

Insuretech Investment On the Rise

• Monica Melton
• June 13, 2018

Within the fintech landscape, is insuretech becoming the popular choice for investors? According to a Medici report, investment in insuretech, which i...

The Facebook Files: HUD Investigation Into Facebook Data Practices Appears to Continue

• Tatjana Kulkarni
• June 12, 2018

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s investigation into data usage at Facebook related to housing and financial services advertisin...

Service Messaging Can Be Your Most Effective Marketing [SPONSORED]

• Swrve
• June 12, 2018

81% of mobile customers use notifications and alerts in their mobile banking apps. The majority of these will be transactional and service oriented in...