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How Orum is Enabling Real-Time Payments (part two)

In Banking, FinTech, StartupsTags accelerators, CBDC, RTPPublish DateJune 2, 2021

June 2, 2021 Orum is creating financial infrastructure allowing for real-time money movement in the U.S. In its own words, “Orum’s API-based products will give enterprise customers unique funds-availability modeling, empowering them with the information required to shift to real-time payments, and enable access to real-time payment rails without necessitating bank integration.” Part one of the interview with founder and CEO Stephany Kirkpatrick is here: https://bit.ly/34jkyLv Q.    Stephany, who are your ideal customers? A.    We want to be everywhere that ACH is. In …

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How Orum is Enabling Real-Time Payments (part one)

How Orum is Enabling Real-Time Payments (part one)

In Banking, FinTech, StartupsTags RTPPublish DateMay 26, 2021

May 26, 2021 Founded in 2019, Orum is creating financial infrastructure allowing for real-time money movement in the U.S. In its own words, “Orum’s API-based products will give enterprise customers unique funds-availability modeling, empowering them with the information …

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Should the U.S. Postal Service Offer Basic Banking Services?

Should the U.S. Postal Service Offer Basic Banking Services?

In Banking, Thoughts & RamblingsTags financial inclusionPublish DateMay 24, 2021

May 24, 2021 Could it provide affordable financial services for underserved families, and, at the same time, shore up its own financial footing? Bank branch closures are an ongoing phenomenon hitting rural and socioeconomically challenged communities …

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CMO Interview with Jennifer Marino

CMO Interview with Jennifer Marino

In Banking, FinTech, MarketingTags Hockey, PFMPublish DateAugust 12, 2020

August 12, 2020 Jen Marino was most recently the Chief Marketing and Customer Officer at Rockland Trust Company, where she led the company’s branding, communications, strategic planning, and customer experience efforts. Rockland Trust is a $11.5 …

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Doconomy: Banking Service With an Environmental Conscience

Doconomy: Banking Service With an Environmental Conscience

In Banking, FinTech, Mobile PaymentsTags Bank of the West, Carbon, Mastercard, SwedenPublish DateJune 17, 2020

June 17, 2020 Founded in September of 2018 by Helena Mueller, Johan Pihl, Mathias Wikström, Fredrik Lagertrad, and Nathalie Green, Doconomy is a mobile banking service developed to inspire changes in consumer behavior to reduce unsustainable consumption and …

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17 Questions with Scarlett Sieber

In Banking, InnovationTags challenger banks, FinTechPublish DateFebruary 11, 2020

Scarlett Sieber is Managing Director, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Catalyst Consulting Group (“CCG”), a management consulting firm that advises clients on the direction of banking and helps them develop strategies that deliver profitable growth …

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The New Financial Health

In Banking, Thoughts & RamblingsTags financial healthPublish DateOctober 1, 2019

Ideas of financial health have long been rooted in the concept of “financial literacy,” and dominated by educational approaches designed to teach people how to better manage their financial lives. While financial literacy is important, and …

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CEO Interview: Dan O’Malley of Numerated

In Banking, FinTechTags BostonPublish DateOctober 17, 2017

In April of 2014, Eastern Bank, the largest community bank in Massachusetts with approximately $9.8 billion in assets and the largest and oldest mutual bank in the country, hired the team behind virtual banking startup PerkStreet …

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How Raisin Helps European Savers

In Banking, FinTech, StartupsTags BerlinPublish DateJanuary 4, 2017

The vast majority of Europeans do their banking locally, earning on their savings whatever is paid by the banks in their home markets. Raisin aims to change that. Founded as SavingGlobal in 2012 and based in …

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MoCaFi Preparing to Take on Alternative Finance

In BankingTags underbankedPublish DateNovember 29, 2016

Mobility Capital Finance, Inc. (“MoCaFi”) is building a platform that reimagines how financially underserved individuals can live. MoCaFi seeks to provide people with the opportunity to migrate from alternative financial services to more mainstream offerings via …

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The Branch of the Future?

In Banking, InnovationTags branches, MassMutual, Society of GrownupsPublish DateJuly 5, 2016

I have a bank branch in my pocket. It’s open 24/7, wherever I happen to be. With it, I can conduct just about any banking transaction I want. The exception is withdrawing cash, and I can …

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