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(Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of Narmi which provides online banking, mobile banking, and banking APIs to banks and credit unions in the United States) For a
by HoyaSaxa 9y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of Narmi which provides online banking, mobile banking, and banking APIs to banks and credit unions in the United States)
For anyone interested, Associated Bank (mentioned in the article) is using Fiserv's Corillian [1] product.
The U.S. financial ecosystem is quite different than others around the world. Despite the asset base being consolidated heavily with a handful of institutions, there are still over 11,000 banks and credit unions around the country. Of those 11,000, I would estimate that less than 5% have any significant in house engineering teams (and that is a generous estimate). The rest rely entirely on third parties to run the technology and software that makes a bank a bank. The market is dominated by Fiserv, FIS and Jack Henry & Associates as the article mentions, but there is also a long tail of providers.
Very few bank and credit union executives understand the basics of cybersecurity. The vast majority of CEOs come from some type of lending centric leadership position since that has been the main source of revenue traditionally.
Unabashed plug: If you know a credit union or bank that is need of a better digital banking experience, I would greatly appreciate the plug/intro for Narmi.
[1] https://www.fiserv.com/customer-channel-management/online-banking/corillian-online.aspx https://www.fiserv.com/customer-channel-management/online-ba...
- lakechfoma 9y agoOff topic, your screen shots look pretty but kinda funny: one is advertising TouchID integration on an iPhone X. That said, quick glance at your website and Narmi looks good! Good luck to you, and I hope your product does well but also encourages the rest of the market to adopt some things like stronger auth.
- HoyaSaxa 9y agoThanks for the feedback! We've definitely been neglecting our marketing website a bit. I'll get that updated
- crossman 9y agoHow many CUs do you have on your platform?
- nmcmillan 9y ago(Disclaimer: Founder of another Banking Tech Company - Akouba - we have a commercial lending platform for banks). Echoing the sentiments above - the current state of banking & security is quite appalling. Because of the outsourcing mentioned above, most bank leadership is so limited in their understanding of technology that they struggle to make decisions weighing tradeoffs of security vs functionality. We've also seen the problem of new tech co's who are built questionable stacks with little thought given to the security aspect. Hoya - would be great to connect and hear more about the solution and your experiences. Shoot me a message (nick@<our domain>).