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Wells Fargo: First Impressions Are Key When It Comes To Digital Onboarding

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Digital banking has become the new normal as social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders have drastically curbed financial institutions’ (FIs’) abilities to conduct in-branch services. Online account openings increased by more than 200 percent in April, while all mobile banking traffic rose by 85 percent.

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Is Turkey Ready For Open Banking Ahead Of Its EU Counterparts?

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With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payments Services Directive (PSD2) humming along in Europe, open banking is overtaking the financial world just as consumer data law gets muscular. Turkey is a prime example, being a major proving ground for the region’s FinTechs and open banking hopefuls.

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Deep Dive: How Banks Are Innovating AML Strategies In The Face of Global Fraud

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Recent scandals involving Deutsche Bank and Swedbank have made consumers reconsider their trust in FIs, many of which are scrambling to keep fraudsters out and bring consumers back. If a bank flags transactions over a certain limit, for example, a bad actor can easily avoid making transactions that surpass it.

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How Digital Will Change Brick-and-Mortar In 2019

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And they are incredibly mobile-connected – particularly when it comes to making choices about purchases, according to PYMNTS research. So-called online-only retailers — including Amazon — operate some 630 physical retail locations in the U.S., That presents ample opportunity for mobile retail. Digital Banking.

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Fighting Fraudsters At The FI/Customer Journey Starting Line

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Increasingly, fraudsters are striking at the very beginning of customers’ relationships with banks and credit unions (CUs), focusing their efforts on account takeovers and new account fraud. There are new data privacy concerns, too.”. Traditional FIs, he said, have been wary of disintermediation by FinTechs.

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FinTech’s Digital Identity Crisis

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That was the crux of a recent digital discussion Karen Webster had with Ken Allen, SVP of operations at Socure , when the two dug into one increasingly evolving, complex topic that’s driving the future of payments and financial services: authenticating the consumer. Device: Tokenized (IoT, cloud), web/mobile, POS.

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Can PSD2 Get Past Its GDPR Problem As Deadlines Hit?

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14, bringing requirements related to strong consumer authentication and other tasks designed to establish a secure, Open Banking environment. There is strong evidence that many players in the digital space — to say nothing of consumers themselves — remain confused by PSD2. However, that’s only the foreshadowing.

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