The Fintech Junkie talks about his new white paper, The Copernican Revolution in Banking which discusses what banking will look...
Wells Fargo customers are skeptical about the reason why they were unable to access accounts; the bank said there was...
Citigroup is looking for new ways to attract customers to their new online bank; the bank is looking into offering...
A consortium of banks that include JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Citi trialed a distributed ledger platform that proceeded equity swaps from beginning to end; the AxCore platform by Axoni would allow for payments to process instantly and reduce potential disputes; Greg Schvey, CEO of Axoni, said in a statement reported by CoinDesk, “Equity swap data is infamously complex and difficult to manage, making it a terrific fit for distributed ledger technology.” Source.
Ron Shevlin’s latest article in Forbes digs into what the future might look for Google in financial services; it seems...
A new report by BNY Mellon and the UN point to flaws in design and marketing that make financial products less available to women than men; the report finds financial firms are missing out on $7bn in credit card revenue, $14bn in personal loans and $4bn in housing; TearSheet sat down with a former financial services marketer in their latest Confessions series to talk about these issues; the interview covers the misconceptions in marketing to women customers, why women are still viewed as a niche customer when they are the majority and that banks don’t really understand their customers. Source.
Brokerage app Robinhood is unveiling a new web based platform; the company currently has over 3 million opened accounts and is growing daily; Business Insider reports that co-founder Baiju Bhatt said, "When people are buying stocks, they are comparison shopping and they want an experience that's built for that."; the company has reached the size of Etrade and are working on building additional features. Source.
Orchard stresses the importance of recovery rates in valuing pools of loans; blog post takes Orchard’s US unsecured consumer lending industry data and discusses what loan recoveries are, how they are calculated, how debt holders recover defaulted loan balances, and why recovery rates are so important. Source
Video conferencing service Zoom has seen a dramatic rise in users with more than 300 million users now using the...
TD Bank’s Singapore office gave the the bank a preview on what was coming to their other locations and allowed...