Content marketing has become a widely used trend among financial firms to build brand awareness about products; what most companies find is cutting through the noise is quite hard as most companies share content that can seem the same from the user perspective; some are trying different techniques like having users write content or testing different visuals; companies need to figure out the types of pieces that work best for their particular segment. Source.
Lenders and credit reporting firms are still working through how to handle the current state of the US consumer; lenders...
The Financial Times has released their annual ranking of the fastest growing companies in Europe; the list features some household...
ClearBank has received its license for digital banking services in the UK; firm is run by Nick Ogden who also has payment services experience with WorldPay and CashFlows; the UK currently leads the challenger bank market with approximately 42 digital only banks. Source
Financial inclusion is a factor considered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in all of its banking charters; American Banker discusses how the fintech charter's financial inclusion provisions compare to the Community Reinvestment Act requirements for banks; the new fintech charter would require fintechs to detail how they plan to promote financial inclusion with accountability from the OCC for those goals and more direct OCC enforcement actions for fintech companies. Source
Mercado Libre will hire 13,000 new jobs this year, bucking a lay-offs trend. Most of the new employees will be based in Mexico and Brazil.
Looking for its next funding round, Brazilian fintech Transfeera bets on corporate banking intelligence solutions to grow in 2022.
Ireland has become a hub of technological innovation as big tech, fintech and big financial services companies set up shop in country as an alternative to the UK; “Ireland has always been quite an innovative country; it has to be because it is such a small market, you can’t just lean on the Irish market to produce a decent fintech business.” says Sinead Fitzmaurice, co-founder of TransferMate, to the FT; talent from Google and Facebook have not only started their own companies but have also moved into finance giants like Deutsche Bank; low corporate tax rates combined with the tech talent has help the country become an emerging fintech market. Source.
Open banking is a significant factor for fintech industry growth; it allows fintech companies to access customer data for fintech services; the Consumer Financial Data Rights (CFDR) coalition has been established to focus primarily on this issue; there initiatives include: lobbying regulators for open access to data, promoting fintech's rights to use data and serving as a resource center for open access regulation; Business Insider also suggests considering the UK's open access and regulatory examples and has published a report entitled, "The Fintech Regulation Report." Source
Speaking at an event in London today the CFO of OakNorth, Cristina Alba Ochoa, said that her company plans to...