Baker Hill Partners with Financial Institutions Amid COVID-19

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Baker Hill Partners with Financial Institutions Amid COVID-19

Baker Hill, the leading financial technology provider in delivering solutions for commercial, small business and consumer loan origination, risk and relationship management, CECL, and analytics, is working directly with its client partners to expedite the processes for small businesses applying for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds under the recently signed CARES Act and proactive portfolio risk management initiatives.

Numerous financial institutions nationwide are leveraging Baker Hill’s legacy small business solution, Bank2Business, as well as Baker Hill NextGen^® and the newly released Baker Hill NextGen^® SBA Fast Track to support consumers. With over 35 years of industry expertise, Baker Hill is providing guidance and support to both new and existing clients experiencing an increase in demand volume. With rapid deployment capabilities, Baker Hill can have a solution consumer-ready within a matter of hours.Banking News

“We know how important it is for our clients to be able to serve their customers during this period,” said John Deignan, president and chief executive officer at Baker Hill. “Supplying a solution to fit the needs of our client partner that could be implemented quickly was crucial to getting funds into the hands of those that need it.”

Baker Hill NextGen^®SBA Fast Track relies on the power of Baker Hill’s small business loan origination expertise and is specifically designed to meet an escalating need as small businesses look to leverage the resources available through the PPP and CARES Act. With the evolving guidelines from the SBA, Baker Hill created its approach to capture loan applicant information through a unique link to a Baker Hill hosted PPP application website. Each application page is branded, enhancing the borrower’s experience with the financial institution. The small business owner’s application feeds directly into the existing Baker Hill solutions, eliminating the need for bankers to re-enter the data and best of all providing a single source for managing the documentation and the process of each SBA PPP request. With an E-Tran integration, financial institutions can quickly complete the process to get small businesses the funds they need.

Baker Hill NextGen^® Portfolio Risk Management minimizes risk and optimizes portfolio insights related to portfolio monitoring. The solution integrates multiple sources of information about client interactions into a single platform to identify opportunities and manage risk and the relationship at the same time. As financial institutions look to stay sound during a period of increased uncertainty, Baker Hill NextGen^® Portfolio Risk Management creates a unified solution.

Baker Hill NextGen^® is an end-to-end platform with a roles-based modern user interface specifically engineered to adapt to the evolving needs of financial institutions. Over 35 years of proven industry expertise is available for banks and credit unions through the power of Baker Hill NextGen^®.

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Rapyd acquires Iceland-based Korta to assist the merchants amidst COVID-19 outbreak

FinTech Buzz 2020-05-04

The global pandemic response for merchants has been short-lived and has also revealed that most of them will be needing a more powerful and solid option for digital payments.

This situation is acting as a trigger for fresh investments, partnerships, and acquisitions even though this was expected to be a low time for such activities.Recently Stripe had announced an investment round of $600 million to expand its product range which would allow enterprises to have easy and simple access to online payment transactions.And now, not long after that activity, a California based fintech Rapyd has acquired an Iceland-based merchant acquirer, Korta.

This acquisition has been put to motion with the intention of using the omnichannel card acquiring system of Korta to feed the hosted fintech services of Rapyd.Raypd has high hopes of attracting merchants who might want to build a local digital payment and shopping mix quickly by using the blend of automated self-service and API offered by Rapyd.Arik Shtilman, the CEO of Raoyd stated that in times like these, service providers cannot rely on providing physical services.

They have to be capable of providing 50% of their business services online.

This he believes is a feature of the new disaster recovery plan.The core business of Rapyd is supply chain automation where it enables merchants from one country to buy products from merchants in another country and make the payment to the seller merchants in their local currency using a digital wallet.

The seller merchant can then use that payment and pay their suppliers in their local currencies.The valuation of Rapyd is around $1.2 billion and it has processors of local payments to be capable of supporting e-commerce and B2B along with businesses sharing economy in the U.S. and overseas markets like Singapore and Brazil.The transaction details of the deal haven’t been disclosed but apparently, involve tens of millions of dollars.

The Future of Banking: Why Digital is Important?

PureSoftware 2021-10-08

Digital has been a buzzword in the ever-evolving banking industry across the globe.

This evolution focuses on designing a seamless, versatile and collaborative experience for the end consumers.

Technological advancement anchored this transformation by upgrading retail and mobile banking to neobank startups, propelling banking into a digitalized future.The rapid advancement in technology has created many challenges for the traditional brick and mortar branches.

Though they are well equipped with financial resources and consumer relationships with a decent reach, they need to adopt digital ways for banking to stay relevant in the future.Here are some ways how digital can shape the banking landscape:Frictionless banking through utilization of B-a-a-S or API Banking: Legacy institutions are best positioned to succeed if they commit to full-fledged digital transformation by introducing extremely adaptable solutions and can utilize Open APIs to integrate new financial systems and open banking software, allowing faster expansion.

The most common of these solutions is Banking-as-a-Service (B-a-a-S), where digital banks and other third parties can connect with the bank’s system directly via APIs.Emergence of Personalized banking tools — The emerging digital banking solutions focus on providing self-learning digital banking software tools sensitive and intuitive to customer needs by utilizing a range of cutting-edge technologies to increase consumer engagement, including AI-powered chatbots, wearable assistance, personal finance Management, P2P Payments through voice bots, and QR code scanning.Data Analytics for Customized Solutions: — Financial service providers will get a deep insight into customers’ lives owing to Big Data, IoT, Blockchain and Open Banking.

They can better the lives of their customer by employing the following techniques: -The technologies such as IoT tend to track the real lives of customers rather than relying on manual submissions, the customer data will be safe and secure through blockchain technology which would be further authenticated via AI.

How does Blockchain Affect Banking Industry in Positive Way?

DIRO Original 2021-08-05

What are the benefits of blockchain in the banking sector?

What is the role of blockchain & how does blockchain affect the banking & financial industry?Learn more: https://diro.io/how-does-blockchain-affect-banking-industry/

Top Benefits of Cross-platform App Development for Fintech Sector

Maegan Cook 2021-10-08

Advancing technology has started influencing the BFSI sector, and we witness innovative app solutions in financial services.

These solutions fall under the fintech category and contribute to improving services.

Mobile wallets, banking apps, and cryptocurrency-related apps are some of the most popular examples of fintech apps.

In this blog, we are going to understand the role and benefits of cross-platform app development for a fintech firm

Top 5 Factors Boosting Open Banking Industry

Prateek G 2020-08-17

Rise in adoption of new applications and services in the banking sector, supportive government regulations, and enhanced customer engagement with open banking APIs drive the growth of the global open banking market.

However, lack of awareness regarding open banking, data security, and management of security threats hinder the market growth.

On the other hand, collaboration activities between fintech firms and banks create new opportunities in the industry.The global open banking market generated $7.29 billion in 2018, and is expected to reach $43.15 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 24.4% from 2019 to 2026.

The report provides an extensive analysis of changing market dynamics, market size & projections, top investment pockets, major segments, and competitive scenarios.Based on financial service, the banking and capital markets segment contributed to more than half of the total share of the global open banking market in 2018, and is expected to maintain its lead share in terms of revenue during the forecast period.

However, the payments segment is projected to witness the largest CAGR of 27.3% from 2019 to 2026.

The research also discusses segments such as digital currencies and value-added services.

Re-Modelling The Banking Customer Onboarding Process Through Automation

Indus Net Technologies 2021-08-03

If 2020 will be remembered as a dark year for the pandemic, it is darker for the banking sector. Focus on Customer Onboarding In a fiercely competitive market, banks must focus on customer onboarding with enhanced customer experience. Moreover, poor onboarding due to lack of automation process, reliance on manual workflow and long customer touchpoints will escalate the loss. According to the research report by Delloite, there are eight steps to be followed for the client onboarding process such as: Commercial banks are heavily reliant on completing these steps manually, thus slowing down the onboarding process. Thus banks must reconsider their onboarding model to be in line with the rising customer expectation of experiencing a fully digital experience. Remodelling the customer onboarding process The latest intelligent automation process can handle complex business-critical anti-money laundering (AML) and KYC process.

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