Jean-Marc Thienpont, managing director of omnichannel and biometric solutions at J.P. Morgan Payments, will be featured in a fireside chat at Bank Automation Summit Europe 2024 on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 10 a.m. GMT +1.  The summit takes place Oct. 7-8 at the Hilton Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany, and brings together industry experts to discuss…

I often come back to the trough of banking licenses, but if banks didn’t have banking licenses, why would we need them? A banking license is not just about compensation and insurance schemes, but about trust, trade, risk, regulation and returns. More than this, once a bank has a license it can lend, something an……

Things we’re reading today include … Fintech N26 says regulatory action cost it ‘billions’ in lost growth (ft.com) A (not so) brief ‘criminal’ history of the ECB  – POLITICO Blockchain Technology Can Help Banks Weather Margin Pressure, Deutsche Bank Says – Bloomberg Shaping the future of Digital Banking (danskebank.com) Five Things to Watch as Synapse……

Owners of small- and medium-sized businesses check their bank balances daily to make financial decisions. But it’s entrepreneur Yoseph West’s assertion that there’s typically information and functions missing from bank accounts that owners could really use. “SMBs make up 44% of U.S. GDP, underpin the economy and have a deep impact on all of us,”…

I got into a new debate yesterday, talking with two guys who are formerly with big card companies (shush, you know who), and we started debating the four-pillar model that’s been around for the last half century. The model is the basis of the card industry and involves acquiring merchants, issuing cards through banks, and then……

Cache Valley Bank has selected fintech Finastra for its core banking and digital banking offerings.  The Logan, Utah-based bank will use the tech provider’s core banking platform, Fusion Phoenix, and its mobile banking platform, Fusion Digital Banking, for commercial and retail banking clients, according to a May 16 release from Finastra. Cache Valley Bank has…

BMO continued to deliver on its digital-first agenda during its fiscal second quarter 2024 with AI, data and overall modernization at the forefront of its efforts.   “We’re using agile practices to accelerate time to market, deploying increasingly sophisticated data and analytics, including AI, and leveraging cloud engineering to drive modernization and deliver more, faster,…

I was having a candid chat with a banking friend about life, the world and money, and he asked me a series of questions: How do we change culture to meet today’s fast-moving changes? How can we be more agile? How important are partnerships? Can we work with FinTechs? How will we work with them?……

I was having a candid chat with a banking friend about life, the world and money, and he asked me a series of questions: How do we change culture to meet today’s fast-moving changes? How can we be more agile? How important are partnerships? Can we work with FinTechs? How will we work with them?……

I was having a candid chat with a banking friend about life, the world and money, and he asked me a series of questions: How do we change culture to meet today’s fast-moving changes? How can we be more agile? How important are partnerships? Can we work with FinTechs? How will we work with them?……