Banking Innovation news and trends

Study Shows Top-Performing Credit Unions Innovate to Stay Competitive
Credit Unions // August 12, 2024

Credit union (CU) executives understand the importance of innovation. However, PYMNTS Intelligence uncovered a disconnect between how some CUs measure innovation success among different performance tiers. More than three-quarters of top performers benchmark their innovation agenda’s return on investment (ROI) by increases to their membership...

New Data: Self-Service Innovation Emerges as Key to Credit Union Retention and Growth
Credit Unions // July 10, 2024

Credit union (CU) members tend to value benefits such as personal service and a sense of community associated with CUs. Data reveals, however, that CU members increasingly show interest in self-service options and the convenience they provide. Like many digital-first consumers, CU members increasingly expect...

Why Banks Are Starting to Care About MACH Architecture
Digital-First Banking // June 14, 2024

Financial institutions (FIs) can’t meet the evolving needs of digital-first customers with traditional solutions and infrastructure.  That’s why the finance industry must continually modernize the banking experience — and its relatively monolithic core architecture — to adapt to technological, behavioral and market disruptions. With the...

How Credit Unions Are Playing David Against Industry Goliaths
Credit Unions // June 13, 2024

Regardless of a credit union’s size, members expect digital-first capabilities that can compete with what for-profit financial institutions (FIs) offer. While many CUs are rising to the innovation challenge, there are differences across the CU landscape. To measure CUs’ current and planned innovations, PYMNTS Intelligence...

Interviews & Exclusives
FinTechs Now See Credit Unions as Collaborators, Not Competitors

August 27, 2024
Many FinTechs partner with credit unions (CUs) and other financial institutions (FIs) to provide the innovative products and services that today’s digital-first consumers expect. In fact, almost all view CUs as collaborators more than competitors. To be successful partners, FinTechs need to align their innovation roadmaps with CUs’ innovation agendas. A key objective among FinTechs […]

Study Shows Top-Performing Credit Unions Innovate to Stay Competitive

August 12, 2024
Credit union (CU) executives understand the importance of innovation. However, PYMNTS Intelligence uncovered a disconnect between how some CUs measure innovation success among different performance tiers. More than three-quarters of...

New Data: Self-Service Innovation Emerges as Key to Credit Union Retention and Growth

July 10, 2024
Credit union (CU) members tend to value benefits such as personal service and a sense of community associated with CUs. Data reveals, however, that CU members increasingly show interest in...

Why Banks Are Starting to Care About MACH Architecture

June 14, 2024
Financial institutions (FIs) can’t meet the evolving needs of digital-first customers with traditional solutions and infrastructure.  That’s why the finance industry must continually modernize the banking experience — and its...

Quick Reads
HKMA, BOT Team On FinTech Initiatives

May 15, 2019
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) announced on Wednesday (May 15) that they have inked a deal to collaborate to promote financial innovation. According to a press release covered by Finextra, the memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on May 12, 2019 between Norman Chan, chief executive of the […]