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Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

Why consumer demand is at the heart of fintech innovation

The ability of incumbents to innovate with the agility of disruptors has long been perceived as an uphill battle with unmatched opponents clambering to take lead position. Alex Bannister, director of strategic partnering at Nationwide Building Society, argues that rather than being borne strictly out of competition, the best innovation comes from ...

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Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

Briefcase babies: How financial apps are helping kids learn about much more than money

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, give a child a user-friendly-savings-encouraging-card-app-account-overseen-by-parents and they will bank well for life. Equipping children and young adults with the tools and education to develop skills in their formative years means they will be positioned to reap the benefits of financial literacy once ...

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Jamie Crawley

Jamie Crawley Reporter at Finextra

Australian neobanks face a sterner challenger than their UK equivalents did

A number of neobanks in Australia, such as Volt and 86 400, are trying to make dents in an extremely consolidated banking market dominated by the four major incumbents – CommBank, ANZ, Westpac and NAB. Comparisons may be drawn between this digital banking shakeup and that which occurred in the UK in 2014-15, but Australia’s incumbents have set a h...

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