Mambu to Introduce Cloud-based Banking Platform at Finovate Asia Tomorrow
Financial technology company Mambu will introduce its new custom-built cloud-based banking platform at Finovate Asia in Singapore tomorrow. The company began in the microfinance space and found the...
View ArticleSimple Launches Realtime P2P Functionality — on PayPal’s Rails?
Simple launched realtime person-to-person (P2P) payments today, the company announced in a blogpost. The functionality currently only works online, but will be rolled out to the company’s iOS and...
View ArticleTwo Ways to Get Bank Customers to Use Bill Pay
Paying bills is painful. What can banks do to ease the pain? Only 40% of online banking users use their bank’s bill pay functionality, which is famously one of the “stickiest” features for retaining...
View ArticleFiserv Scores Major Win by Signing Washington Federal
Washington Federal, the largest bank in Washington State, selected Fiserv‘s DNA account-processing platform, Fiserv announced today. The DNA platform, which includes an innovative app store for Fiserv...
View ArticleVIDEO: Arvest Bank Uses a Branch to Prove Branches Don’t Matter
Can we stick a fork in branch banking if a bank proves its branches are worthless? That’s essentially what Arvest Bank, in Bentonville, Ark., has done with its new ad promoting its recently unveiled...
View ArticleUmpqua’s Eve Callahan to Speak at Bank Innovation 2014
Eve Callahan, senior vice president of communications for Umpqua Bank, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2014, which will take place March 3-4 in Seattle. Callahan will join the panel,...
View ArticleHalf of All Mobile Banking Customers Are Now Part of ClearXchange
Capital One Financial Corp. has joined the P2P network ClearXchange, bringing the nation’s seventh-largest bank, and its 50 million customers, into a network that already contains JPMorgan Chase, Bank...
View ArticleFinancial Advice Portal Phroogal Wins First DEMOvation Challenge
The competition was stiff and the challenge itself was arduous, but after ten 6-minute demos to ten different audiences, Phroogal emerged triumphant in the 2014 Bank Innovation DEMOvation Challenge....
View Article10 Big, Hairy Innovation Ideas from Bank Innovation 2014
Dozens of ideas came out of Bank Innovation 2014, which spanned two days earlier this month and contained 12 sessions about cutting-edge financial innovation, as evidenced by the discussion around the...
View ArticleTD Bank Chooses Popmoney in Big Win for Fiserv
TD Bank, the nation’s 10th-largest bank by assets, has chosen Fiserv‘s Popmoney money movement service for its retail banking customers. The news was announced by the bank Monday. It’s about time TD...
View ArticleBuilding a Bank from Scratch
The bank of the future probably won’t be made of brick or stone, and may not be much to look at. It’s easier to say what it will do. Entrepreneur and startup mentor Jack Gavigan, who traded tweets with...
View ArticleVIDEO: Citibank Ad Uses Moody Teenagers to Showcase Its App
Citibank's new ad for its mobile payments app features some whiny teenagers.
View Article2014 Innovators to Watch: 23 to 30
23. Tom Noyes, advisor/investor/entrepreneurLooking for a clear view cutting through the fog of rumors about Apple and payments? Try Tom Noyes. He has a strong track record of making the right call on...
View ArticleFiserv, LexisNexis in App Hookup
Fiserv and LexisNexis, two big brands in financial technology, now have apps that are integrated. Greylock Federal Credit Union, the former credit union of General Electric, built the LexisNexis-Fiserv...
View ArticleDiscounting Comes to Digital Banking
Everyone: “The future of banking is digital. The future of banking is digital. The future of banking is digital….” That has been nothing short of a mantra over the last few years. Indeed, there was not...
View ArticleBank of the West Launches Photo Bill Pay
Bank of the West joined a select group of banks offering bill pay using the smartphone camera today. The feature, dubbed Scan to Pay, was built by Fiserv (which internally calls it Snap to Pay) with...
View ArticleCoolest Brands 2015: Honorable Mention
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View ArticleBank of the West Bakes PFM Into Its Online Banking Experience
Bank of the West has made personal financial management (PFM) capabilities an integral part of its online banking portal. The update went live May 11 and was made public late last week, said Jamie...
View ArticleWells Fargo Goes AWOL With Its Mobile Performance Data
Transparency took a left hook to chin yesterday when Wells Fargo & Co. chose to withhold a crucial piece of its financial data. Specifically, Wells Fargo for the first time in at least two years...
View ArticleIn Spending Mode, Discover’s Direct Bank Expenses Climb 18%
Discover Financial Services might be the major FI most engaged in spending on information technology today. Which is why it is worth noting that the company claims it is already “seeing good returns...
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