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New Resource Bank has been offering asset based loans through a partnership with P2Bi and the agreement could help to establish a template for smaller banks working with fintechs; the partnership is a win-win for P2Bi with more leads and the bank as they get to more efficiently work through customer relationships that might normally take more time and energy than it would be worth. Source.
Lloyds CEO António Horta Osório told a conference that his bank is the largest digital bank in the UK with more than 30 million digital customers; the bank plans to spend about $1.5bn annually on their digital strategy for the next three years; he also stated he thought partnerships between banks and fintech companies will become even more important and wants to work with them in a symbiotic relationship. Source.
Online lending has been maturing the last few years with more companies reaching scale and some beginning to be profitable; banks have diversified their partnerships with online lenders and in some cases have launched their own online brands; one of the big shifts in the last few years is that banks and fintech companies are not seeing each other as enemies anymore, they can and do exist together through a number of different means. Source.
PayPal saw payment volumes grow by 29 percent and they added 8.7 million new accounts in Q4 2017; the recent announcement that eBay was replacing PayPal with Adyen for processing overshadowed what was another strong quarter by the company; while the Adyen news was not positive for PayPal it could be seen as that in the long term as the company has been diversifying more in recent years; PayPal has seen growth through more partnerships with card networks and banks globally. Source.
Business Insider recently sat down with with Lori Beer, JPMorgan's chief information officer, about the bank’s strategy for working with companies in the fintech market; they have chose to work with fintech firms of all different sizes through a residence program for younger companies to partnership or acquisitions with maturing companies; the bank sees fintech as a core component of their offering. Source.
According to a new report by CB Insights the most recent 5 quarters show that big investments in fintech companies from banks has slowed down; banks are instead beginning to develop and update core technology in house; Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and others have all developed and released their own digital investing and advising services; service provides like Diebold are offering the banks a chance to move all infrastructure online so they can focus on customer facing tools; banks are still working through transformation as almost all have now realized if they do not upgrade legacy tech they will be left behind. Source.
Leaders at the Federal Reserve, the OCC and the CFPB spoke at the Consumer Bankers Association annual conference about the need to be more flexible when applying oversight to bank & fintech partnerships; “We need to do a better job of educating our supervision staff, in some cases, in terms of interpretation of the guidance,” said Dan Quan, who leads the CFPB’s Project Catalyst, as reported by American Banker; they also talked about better coordination to ensure consistency in oversight. Source.
Radius Bank in Boston has been partnering with fintechs for the last few years in an effort to build relationships for the long term that benefit the bank and fintech company; “We’ve built a culture inside this company that believes in the future of virtual banking, and the demands clients are going to put on us to be an Amazon-like experience for them,” says Radius CEO Mike Butler to American Banker; the bank is looking to use fintech companies to build this experience as they are unable to build all of this in house. Source.
Lend Academy reports on the intersection of banks and marketplace lending in their article; Zopa, the industry's first P2P lender, is leading the way again; it is now the first P2P platform to seek a bank license; SoFi also says it has plans to take deposits and has been leading the market in product expansion; at the same time digital banks are becoming more prevalent and fintech partnerships are occurring industry wide. Source