BNY Mellon: Fintech has great opportunities for banks!

BNY Mellon: Fintech has great opportunities for banks!

As per a report "Innovation in Payments: The Future is Fintech" by BNY Mellon venture capital investment, accelerator programs and an active focus on the usage of new technologies via allegiances with fintech companies should become the top priorities for banks. This, the report, says is extremely important as the multiplicity of new payment capabilities come to the fore. The report follows on from "Global Payments 2020: Transformation and Convergence" and digs deeper into the growing influence of fintech in transaction banking. Moving further the report also tries to dissect the direct....


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