Mobile & online banking

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Lloyds closes mobile bank branch service

With customers carrying out more banking through their phones, Lloyds is shutting down a different kind of mobile service, the vans that drive to towns across the UK offering an alternative to branches.

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Lloyds cuts branch jobs as customers go digital

Lloyds Banking Group is cutting around 1600 jobs in its branch network, although the bank is also creating more than 800 roles in an expanded "relationship growth" team as it retools for a digital-first future.

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Qatar's Karty raises $2m for digital wallet

Qatari digital wallet startup Karty is gearing up for launch after securing more than US$2 million in seed funding.

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Digital Onboarding raises $58m

Boston-based SaaS fintech Digital Onboarding has raised $58 million from Volition Capital.

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Commerzbank and Global Payments form payments joint venture for SMEs

Global Payments and Commerzbank are to launch a joint venture company catering to the digital payment needs of small and medium sized enterprise in germany.

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Nu Mexico lets customers receive payments from US via WhatsApp

Nubank customers in Mexico can now receive money from the United States via WhatsApp thanks to a partnership between the digital banking giant and Felix Pago

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Nubank gets green light to expand into savings in Colombia

Brazilian digital banking behemoth Nubank is stepping up its presence in Colombia after receiving approval from authorities to operate as a financing company in the country.

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Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

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Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

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Bunq launches GenAI chatbot

Bunq has launched its own generative AI platform that the Dutch neobank says will "wow" customers with its ability to answer money-related questions.

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EPI completes first account-to-account mobile transfers

The European Payments Initiative has completed its first account-to-account instant payment transaction in a proof-of-concept between customers from Sparkasse Elbe-Elster in Germany and Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne (Groupe BPCE) in France

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Apple, Visa and Mastercard face anti-trust class action lawsuit

Apple, Visa and Mastercard are facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that they conspired to suppress competition in the market for point-of-sale payment card services.

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TD inks data access deal with Plaid

TD has struck a North American data-access agreement with Plaid, enabling the bank's customers in Canada and the US to share their financial data with third-party providers.

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Google adds BNPL options to mobile wallet

Google is teaming up with Zip and Affirm to offer buy now pay later options for US consumers shopping with Google Pay.

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Canadian fintech Koho raises C$86m

Canadian fintech Koho has raised an additional C$86 million at a C$800 million valuation in a Series D round extension.

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PwC forms alliance with Starling's Engine SaaS platform

PwC has signed on as a strategic implementation platform for Starling Bank's Software-as-a-Service platform, Engine.

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CommBank and Vodafone share real-time intelligence on SMS scams

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is collaborating with Vodafone to share SMS scam intelligence in near real-time, allowing the telco to identify and disrupt scammers while the bank makes proactive blocks on fraudulent payments.

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Barclays set to shut more branches

Barclays is the latest UK bank to set out plans to trim its branch network in 2024, earmarking another 18 sites for closure.

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Italian watchdog hits Intesa Sanpaolo over customer migration to app-only unit

Intesa Sanpaolo has been ordered by Italy's competition authority to stop the migration of 2.4 million customers to its new app-only offshoot unless it gets express consent from the users.

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Lloyds to close more branches

Lloyds Banking Group has earmarked another 45 branches for closure in 2024, citing the migration to digital channels.