Technology

As the pandemic speeds digital adoption at financial institutions, the technology giants are pitching products that scan in data from mortgage documents and provide security and compliance controls used by in-house tech developers.

The rulemaking is expected to draw enormous interest from both banks and third-party fintech providers.

From finding new efficiencies to redefining the customer experience; fintechs are permanently changing financial services. But what does the actual acquisition process look like?

Banks, lenders, and fintechs have been on a path toward digitizing the mortgage process from end-to-end — long before the term coronavirus entered our daily lexicon. How has the pandemic affected progress?

For the 44.6 million households who rent, coming into the crisis almost 27% were already paying half or more of their monthly income on housing. That meant they had litte ability to save for an emergency, let alone a pandemic that would cause record job losses.

Compliance can't be a bolt-on solution. It's critical to build it in from the start, across your people, technology and partnerships, says Hummingbird's Joe Robinson.

The Department of Justice can still investigate and arrest the developers behind the automatic transactions, says Exante's Anatoliy Knyazev.

Several large mobile point of sale projects are hitting the market at once to reach financially troubled retailers, with JPMorgan Chase making use of a three-year-old acquisition to push back against the technology firms that have been gobbling up small-business clients.

PayPal isn’t the first company to open its platform to cryptocurrencies, but its technique is more hands-on than most payment providers.

With face-to-face service altered, banks need to improve their data game to build new payment services, says Tealium's Heidi Bullock.