Latest Non-bank competitors News: Finextra Research

Research/Non-bank competitors

Prepare to Choose: 4 factors Banks must assess before committing to a SaaS Provider

22 September 2021 513 downloads

Research/Non-bank competitors

Addressing tech skills shortages in financial services

14 September 2021 284 downloads

News/payments

Amazon developing POS to compete with PayPal, Shopify

Insider reports that Amazon’s Project Santos is working on the point-of-sale (POS) solution to compete with the likes of industry giants.

10 September 2021

Company update/payments

44% of Indonesians use digital payments platforms at least four times a week

Kadence International Indonesia has released the results of its latest research, Digital Payments and Financial Services Usage and Behavior in Indonesia. The report was based on an online survey of 1,000 respondents conducted during July 2021 in six major cities in Indonesia: Greater Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Medan, and Palembang.

06 September 2021

Research/Non-bank competitors

Competitive Advantage through Cloud Connectivity

06 September 2021 173 downloads

Company update/retail

Walgreens bank account goes live

Walgreens and InComm Payments, a leading global payments technology company, today announced the launch of Scarlet, a bank account and debit card powered by Mastercard and issued by MetaBank, available exclusively at Walgreens.

02 September 2021

Research/Non-bank competitors

Corporate Mobile Banking and the Road to Omnichannel

23 August 2021 341 downloads

News/markets

Wise opens the gate for US investors with ADR program

Wise has opened the door to US-based customers and retail and institutional investors seeking to invest in the company from September 2021.

20 August 2021

Company update/payments

Wallgreens launches health and wellness credit cards

Walgreens (Nasdaq: WBA) today introduced the new myWalgreens Credit Card program, featuring two industry-first retail health and wellness credit cards, issued by Synchrony Bank (NYSE: SYF).

16 August 2021

Research/Non-bank competitors

Responding to Lending Disruption

27 July 2021 605 downloads

News/payments

Google plans fintech move in Japan

Big tech firm Google is reported to be planning a push into Japan's financial services market

08 July 2021

News/startups

London fintechs enjoy record VC investment in H1

The first half of 2021 has seen London-based fintechs raise more money in venture capital (VC) investment than any previous year.

08 July 2021

Company update/startups

Aussie fintech Bluestone launches digital lending platform

Today non-bank lender Bluestone went live with its new digital lending platform. This launch includes a significant number of new features and improvements including a suite of new loan origination and servicing capabilities.

05 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

News/cloud

Bank execs predict branch model will be dead within 5 years

With Covid-19 leading to an uptick in digital banking, nearly two thirds of industry executives from around the world think that the branch-based model will be dead within five years, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey.

29 June 2021

Research/Non-bank competitors

The advantage of Machine Learning in preventing fraud

17 June 2021 391 downloads

Research/Non-bank competitors

Identity verification’s integral position in evolving digital transformation

15 June 2021 326 downloads

News/startups

Curve breaks records with largest ever equity raise of £9.9m on Crowdcube

Setting multiple records on Crowdcube, Curve has closed the largest equity raise on the platform, sourcing nearly £10m in funding from 11,795 investors in 54 hours to support the rollout of the Curve OS platform in the US and the launch of Curve Credit in the UK and Europe.

28 May 2021

Research/Non-bank competitors

The Future of Digital Banking in the UK 2021

21 May 2021 882 downloads

News/regulation

Tony Craddock: FCA’s ‘Dear CEO letter likely to destabilise the e-money sector’

In a ‘Dear CEO’ Letter sent out by the FCA yesterday, the regulator called on UK electronic money institutions (EMIs) to ensure their customers understand how their money is protected.

19 May 2021