Vania Esady and Stephen Burgess A summary measure for UK households’ resilience High levels of household debt have been shown to amplify recessions. For example, in the global financial crisis (GFC), UK households with more debt tended to cut back their spending disproportionately, amplifying aggregate demand effects and potentially making the recession worse. High levels…
Grasshopper Bank has reduced manual reviews in its onboarding process by 57% through fintech Alloy’s risk-management solution. The bank implemented Alloy’s Identity Risk Solution in March 2022. At the time, 20% of its applications were reviewed manually to monitor for fraud, Lauren McCollom, head of embedded finance at Grasshopper, told Bank Automation News. With Alloy’s…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) oversees benefits and pensions in the UK. As part of their oversight and to check if the correct amount of funds are being sent to individuals and prevent fraud, the DWP can and do run checks on bank accounts. While this process worries some, understanding the reasons behind…
Union Bank November 6, 2023 When the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital emergency room opened 50 years ago, it was serving about ten patients per day. Over the past five decades health care needs have changed, and the ER now serves an average of 38 patients each day, with some days seeing up to 50 to…
Aydan Dogan and Ida Hjortsoe Exporting allows firms to access a larger market, but it also implies costs and risks. Some of these costs and risks are due to the time between production and sales generally being longer for exported goods than for goods sold in the domestic market. In our recent Staff Working Paper,…
Tech giants are bailing out on in-house financial services innovation as they look to embed their offerings into third-party vendor platforms. “After nearly a decade or more of big tech companies venturing into launching their own financial products, many of the major players have now pulled back,” Laura Kennedy, principal analyst at think tank CBInsights,…
Have you ever gone to make a payment online, accidentally clicked a couple of times at checkout and then boom, you’ve got a notification telling you that your money has left your account, not once, but twice? Just typical 🙄 Often, your debit card can be charged twice through no fault of your own, but…
Union Bank February 7, 2024 Welcome to Union Bank’s exciting journey into the world of investments! We’re delighted to bring our Northern Vermont and New Hampshire communities a simple, yet powerful way to grow your money. Through our UB2Go digital banking platform, we’re introducing an easy-to-use digital investment app. You can start investing with as…
Leo Fernandes, Harkeerit Kalsi, Nicholas Vause, Matthew Downer, Sarah Ek and Sebastian Maxted Hedge funds and other alternative investment funds (AIFs) often take positions in financial markets that significantly exceed their investors’ capital by using debt or derivatives. However, such ‘leverage’ can pose risks to financial stability. Regulators seeking to reduce these risks may consider…
Open banking regulation should promote secure data sharing while eliminating the need for screen scraping. In the United States and Canada, screen scraping is still a common practice, Michelle Beyo, chief executive at consulting firm Finavator, said during this week’s Bank Automation News webinar, “The future of open banking – Payments meet data.” An estimated…
