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October 2011 • Vol 24, No 10 An American Banker Brand The 8th Annual FinTech 100 Ranking SPECIAL SECTION Which vendors are growing their financial services business and which are scaling back? Our annual ranking shows how the financial technol- o�y landscape is shifting. page 18
banktechnews.com
CEOs of the Top 10 Fin Tech companies weigh in on the year ahead
and their product plans. page 23
Profiles of the Top 10
Our ranking of horizontal technolo�y firms selling products and ser-
vices across multiple industries that derive less than one third of their
revenues from financial services. page 22
The Enterprise 25 Ranking
Go to americanbanker.com/;ntech100
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Instead of making their customers remember a long list of passwords,
some banks are developing a single means of authentication and deploy-
ing it across all channels.
The Coveted Single Sign-On
Surveying the industry’s I T landscape over the past decade, a long-time
bank technolo�y consultant serves up some pointed observations. “How
many of you are old enough to have said, ‘Hurry up, I’ve got to get to the
bank before it closes’?”
Perspectives on Core, and More
A web services approach helped First Merit Credit Union
roll out a mobile banking app that integrates with its core
banking system.
Bolting on Mobile Banking
THE FINTECH 100 ISSUE
Sergio Fidalgo,
CIO of BBVA Compass,
is centralizing customer
data and bringing in a
CRM system that aims to
put the customer ;rst
A Customer-Friendly Core
BBVA is deploying a new core banking
system to process transactions in real time
across all channels. page 32