Core Banking, Financial Management

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) regulations: Curtailing growth or leveling the playing field?

July 15, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) regulations: Curtailing growth
BNPL has grown rapidly as a lending product for consumers over the last few years. The idea of paying for purchases over time through a few interestfree payments is highly appealing to customers. BNPL firms have rapidly grown revenues as product adoption has increased. Most of this growth is led by fintechs while banks have been trying to play catch-up. Arguably, banks have lagged behind because fintech firms have been able to use their tech advantage to appeal to a wide consumer base and have reduced friction in the customer lending journey. However, industry experts also admit that a lot of this performance disparity may be due to regulatory arbitrage. Large banks face higher scrutiny when compared to fintechs and nonbanking lenders on policies, processes, and analytical strategies.

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Georgia's Own Credit Union

Georgia's Own was founded in 1934 by a group of telephone employees with an initial investment of $160. Since that time, the Credit Union has grown to be one of the largest Credit Unions in the state with assets over $2 billion and membership over 180,000. In addition, we serve the employees of over 430 sponsor companies. Georgia's Own was founded on the credit union philosophy of people helping people and is dedicated to providing its members with exceptional savings and quality service. Georgia's Own offers a wide variety of financial products and services: savings, savings certificates, IRAS, checking accounts, auto loans, personal loans, mortgage services, credit cards, and electronic services, which includes online and mobile banking.

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whitePaper | May 20, 2022

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Credit-as-a-Service: Connecting customers and lenders to drive value

whitePaper | July 26, 2022

For a very long time, incumbent banks/financial institutions have remained the pillars or stalwarts of the banking industry. Be it a retail consumer or a business, banks have remained a one-stop solution for all their financial needs. However, financial institutions have had their fair share of challenges in the past decade, which have ultimately trickled down towards the end consumer and revolutionized banking as we know it.

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whitePaper | June 8, 2022

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whitePaper | February 2, 2020

The ability to close the books, consolidate results, publish financial disclosures, and provide insightful performance reports in the least amount of time possible is widely regarded as a proxy for good corporate governance. However, the financial close and reporting process is weighed down by inefficiency and unnecessary information. Accounting and finance professionals must fight to manage and optimize an increasingly complex and disconnected ecosystem. The available amount of data is only going to increase, and CFOs are tasked with leading financial transformation initiatives to address the disparities. The pressure is on finance teams to modernize and improve.

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Open Banking, Open Finance, Open Economy: THE NEW IDENTITY OF FINANCE

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Trends in customer demand, technology, and regulation drive the development of an open financial ecosystem in which the consensual sharing of customer data among financial institutions (FIs) and businesses creates new value for consumers and business users. This Aite-Novarica Group report analyzes this trend and the evolution from open banking to open finance and to a truly open economy. The report is based on interviews with executives from banks and fintech firms in Europe and North America.

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Georgia's Own Credit Union

Georgia's Own was founded in 1934 by a group of telephone employees with an initial investment of $160. Since that time, the Credit Union has grown to be one of the largest Credit Unions in the state with assets over $2 billion and membership over 180,000. In addition, we serve the employees of over 430 sponsor companies. Georgia's Own was founded on the credit union philosophy of people helping people and is dedicated to providing its members with exceptional savings and quality service. Georgia's Own offers a wide variety of financial products and services: savings, savings certificates, IRAS, checking accounts, auto loans, personal loans, mortgage services, credit cards, and electronic services, which includes online and mobile banking.

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