2019 was a banner year for mobile banking with finance apps accessed more than one trillion times and registrations growing...
Alkami’s white label technology has helped to provide mobile banking apps for credit unions and banks; they just raised a $70mn series D round led by General Atlantic, with participation from MissionOG, S3 Ventures and Argonaut Private Equity; the company has a SaaS model where they charge banks on the number of users per month; they plan to use the new infusion of capital to grow their sales and invest in innovation. Source.
According to Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) there was a 200 percent jump in new mobile banking registrations in early...
Citigroup reported that the number of customers using its mobile app rose 25% to 10 million from the first quarter...
A recent study by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington School of Business shows that users...
Pymnts.com talks with OnDeck executives and reports on alternative lending volumes; online small business lender OnDeck has loaned more than $7 billion to merchants since 2007; OnDeck Chief Revenue Officer Andrea Gellert and Vice President of Marketing and Communications Jim Larkin provide insights on the lending market and OnDeck's lending processes; discuss OnDeck's partnership with JPMorgan and how collaboration is benefiting small and medium size business. Source
As a thirty year veteran of consumer lending, loanDepot CEO Anthony Hsieh has seen his share of transformative changes; his keynote at LendIt USA 2017 focused on the modern version of consumer lending and how online lenders are only just scratching the surface; while originations have grown each year loanDepot still only accounts for about two percent market share as the second largest non bank consumer lender; he believes online lending is still in the bottom of the first or top of the second inning; non bank mortgage lenders now account for five of the top ten originators, a few years ago only two non bank lenders cracked the top ten; regulations, capital markets and technology have all contributed to the market changing since the crisis of 2008; he also talks about the future of the customer experience and their continued investment in technology. Source
Many of the challenges for both banks and fintechs alike come from laws that are anywhere from 30 to 100...
While writing his weekly column in Forbes Ron Shevlin of Cornerstone Advisors says the new Money in Excel tool from...
According to the World Bank global remittances are set to fall by 20 percent this year as the pandemic wreaks...