Digital-First Banking

Digital-First Banking
Silicon Valley Bank on Banking at the Edge of Technology
January 17, 2022

Serving digital-first banking clients means meeting them where they are, whether they reach out online or want to talk finances over a glass of wine at an in-branch cellar. In the Digital-First Banking Tracker, Silicon Valley Bank’s Milton Santiago explains how cross-channel access to personalized...

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Silicon Valley Bank’s Digital-First Approach t​o Keeping Tech Innovators Engaged
January 14, 2022

Banking customers are less likely than ever before to visit branches, and 43% say they bank entirely online or through a mobile app. At the same time, the ATM market is growing at a 4.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), as interactive teller machines (ITMs)...

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Open Banking and the Constant Threat of Big Tech
January 13, 2022

Welcome to the sixth installment of TechREG’s series on open banking. In this series, you’ll find everything you need to know about how banks and FinTechs share data, what are the main risks, use cases and more. See also: Open Banking Series: Market-Driven vs. Regulatory-Driven Open...

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UK Neobanks Show Potential for 2022 with Major Fundraising and Expansion Plans
January 07, 2022

Despite the legal and pandemic-related business challenges that have plagued neobanks in the United Kingdom in recent months, the challenger bank space in Europe is showing huge potential for 2022 as investor and customer interest continues to grow. Read more: China’s Tencent Takes Stake in...

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Fake Business, Real Problem: The Importance of KYC
January 06, 2022

About 1.4 million identity theft incidents were logged by the Federal Trade Commission in 2020, a figure that’s more than double the thefts from the year before. As banking becomes an increasingly digital practice, consumers are becoming increasingly aware of vulnerabilities in the system. A...

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China’s Tencent Takes Stake in UK Challenger Bank Monzo
January 02, 2022

Tencent, the Chinese-based tech group, has a new stake in Monzo, which shows a big recovery in Monzo’s fortunes as it’s now valued at $4.5 billion, Financial Times writes. Monzo saw trouble earlier in the pandemic, when valuations plummeted and some speculated that the digital-first...

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Airtel Payments Bank Crests 1B in Transaction Volume
December 26, 2021

Airtel Payments Bank now has over one billion transactions on its platform during September quarter 2021-2022, sources say. This represents around 61% of its year-over-year growth in transaction volume. This, the report says, has shown the strength of Airtel’s digital-first model and its distribution of...

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Some of Revolut’s Online Payments Impacted by a Service Outage Now Fixed
December 26, 2021

Customers of Revolut were inconvenienced by a partial outage of services, leaving them unable to complete online payments for a while on Sunday, Dec. 26, the Irish Times writes. There wasn’t complete information on how many of the FinTech’s customers were affected by the issue....

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Revolut Bank Granted Full EU Banking License Amid Criticisms of Unfair Competition
December 20, 2021

Revolut Bank, part of the U.K. FinTech unicorn Revolut, has been granted a full banking license by the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of Lithuania (LB) recently announced. The ECB-licensed and LB-regulated specialized bank can now issue consumer credit among other services, while protecting...