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Not just dumb pipes: Fintech investment slows as banks try to gain back control

  • Large financial firms looking to claw back some control over their clients by improving their back-end infrastructure and building their own digital solutions in-house
  • Banks' efforts to overhaul their middle- and back-end systems and focus on the user interface is already apparent in mobile banking upgrades from Chase, Wells Fargo and Citi
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