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How Citi aims to become a ‘life partner’ for customers

09/29/17

Citi’s innovation leader, Yolande Piazza, envisions reinventing the way the bank interacts with customers, so that it is part of their daily lives — always present, always intuitively easy and always helpful.

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Fintechs’ defense of screen scraping is shortsighted

09/07/17

By design, any practice that requires a customer to simply hand over online bank credentials to a third party is a terrible idea.

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How a bank bet on fintech for its digital reboot

08/30/17

First Tennessee took a leap of faith to hire a young digital services company for its overhaul of mobile and online operations, and it says its decision has paid off.

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Oracle offers API to link banks to fintechs

08/10/17

Oracle Corp. is offering a payments application programming interface based on the ISO 20022 standard that will allow banks to more easily collaborate with fintechs and other third parties.

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'To unbank the banked': Comments of the Week

08/04/17

Readers react to USAA teaming up with Amazon’s Alexa, how a new Wells Fargo’s scandal could affect arbitration rules, a digital identity startup’s ambitions, and more.

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Bank cybersecurity may need a new mindset

08/01/17

A jumble of security vendors and lack of cohesive planning weaken many banks’ cybersecurity defenses, experts say.

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Urban FT buys fintech company iParse

07/18/17

The white-label banking platform provider Urban FT has purchased the mobile banking technology firm iParse and several of its patents.

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JPMorgan Chase and Finicity ink data-sharing agreement

07/11/17

The companies will use an application programming interface to let Chase customers send the data to the apps Finicity supports, including personal financial services apps and income verification tools.

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'Existential requirement for banks': Comments of week

07/07/17

Readers this week highlighted the need for banks to upgrade payments systems, debated a small bank’s decision to ditch its legacy core vendor, lamented populist initiatives of the GSEs, and more.

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Small banks deemed ill-prepared for coming payments revolution

06/30/17

Though they face an array of competitive threats — from digital currencies to peer-to-peer payment apps — the vast majority of community banks do not have a payments strategy, according to a recent survey.

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