Digital-First Banking

Digital-First Banking
Bank Of England Ups Monzo’s Capital Requirements
August 06, 2020

Monzo Bank Ltd,  the London-based online bank, must now have a capital worth of 13.6 percent of its risk-weighted assets to guard against potential losses. The Financial Times (FT) reported the new requirements are among the first signs the Bank of England (BoE), the United...

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BBVA On Google, Digital Banking And The Rise Of The ‘Everyday App’
August 04, 2020

When the story of the coronavirus is written, when it comes to financial services, the key chapters will focus on the pace at which innovation accelerated — and where a range of players came together to create ecosystems, rather than to simply compete in zero-sum, winner-take-all bids...

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What Digital Banks Are Doing Right
August 04, 2020

The past several years have been good times for digital banking players popping up to challenge traditional brick-and-mortar financial institutions for market share, but recent months have accelerated that trend into overdrive. Consumers worldwide are realigning their entire lives around digital — and looking for...

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BBVA Teams With Google Pay To Offer Digital Bank Accounts
August 03, 2020

BBVA USA is collaborating with Google to offer consumers a digital bank account through Google Pay. The Alabama-based bank holding company said the partnership is key to its strategy​ of growing the bank throughout the U.S. as it deepens its transformation and capitalizes on the innovations that...

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Google Expands Digital DDA Program To Six New FIs
August 03, 2020

Six additional U.S. banks and credit unions (CUs) have signed on to offer checking and savings accounts through Google Pay. BankMobile, BBVA USA, BMO Harris, The Coastal Community Bank, First Independence Bank (a federally designated minority depository institution) and SEFCU will join Citi and Stanford...

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How FIs Can Get A Perfect Score on Their Digital-First Offerings
August 03, 2020

The pandemic has pushed digitization from a “nice to have” to a “have to have” for consumers all over the world and across all age demographics. But as Karen Webster noted in a recent On the Agenda conversation with a panel of industry experts, a...

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Bank Of England To Revamp Payments, Eyes Digital Currency
July 30, 2020

The Bank of England (BoE) is pushing ahead with an overhaul of a key part of the United Kingdom’s financial payments infrastructure. The U.K.’s central bank announced on Thursday (July 30) that it has hired IT firm Accenture to revamp and modernize what is known...

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Are ATMs The ‘Mini-Branch’ Of The Future?
July 30, 2020

The ATM isn’t living up to its full potential, a fact that’s really starting to come into focus for financial institutions (FIs) under COVID-19. The days of the ATM serving as just a quick cash dispensary are numbered, Sonia Sedler, Diebold Nixdorf’s global head of managed...

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Digital-First Banking Leads Contactless Charge
July 27, 2020

Touchless. Contactless. These are the adjectives attending COVID-19 everywhere we find it — or fear it. And while it can be fairly said that good relationships don’t start with fear, that doesn’t always apply. Fear signals risk and attunes us to it, improving the most...