Digital banking

When customers contact Wells Fargo, AI system goes to work

08/19/20

An internally built system called Advanced Listening analyzes phone calls, emails, text messages and more, identifying possible compliance violations, systemic issues and opportunities to improve processes, products and customer service.

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Why Amex is buying Kabbage

08/18/20

American Express isn't acquiring any loans in its deal for the online small-business lender. Here's what it is getting.

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Older adults needed help banking online. Scotiabank found a solution.

08/14/20

The Canadian bank is doing something few U.S. institutions have done: build an online hub with tutorials designed expressly to simplify the online banking process for newcomers.

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Truist’s pandemic chatbot could have staying power

08/12/20

Built to respond to borrowers' questions about mortgage deferrals, the bot created by Salesforce is evolving and in the future could schedule appointments, answer questions about new digital products or help with emergencies.

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Using AI to make secondary market for online consumer loans

08/11/20

Theorem is marketing its first-ever securitization of unsecured loans. It uses machine-learning technology to gauge the risk of default, a growing concern during the pandemic recession.

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Community bank, fintech team up to serve gig-economy workers

08/10/20

Somerset Trust in rural Pennsylvania has partnered with RoamHR, a financial platform that assists the self-employed, to add tax-withholding help for contract and temporary workers to the bank's services.

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Brokered deposit law is woefully outdated

08/07/20

As more consumers do business online, some deposits are being unfairly categorized as brokered, inviting burdensome regulatory scrutiny.

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Customers Bancorp, BankMobile to chart new paths as separate companies

08/06/20

Spinning off its digital bank will allow Pennsylvania-based Customers to beef up its commercial lending and buy other banks. BankMobile, meanwhile, plans to pursue more white-label relationships and perhaps explore its own acquisitions.

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Customers Bancorp in Pennsylvania divesting BankMobile

08/06/20

The digital bank would merge with Megalith Financial to create a new publicly traded company that would offer licensed products and services.

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Rellevate, challenger bank for the working poor, goes live

08/06/20

The digital bank founded by a former Western Union president offers tools to help low and moderate income people.

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