PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 17, 2019
San Francisco-based Chime launched in 2013, offering debit cards, savings accounts and checking accounts to consumers without any fees. “Our payment processor has been experiencing issues today, resulting in our app + website being down,” Chime said in a tweet on Thursday (Oct. Earlier this year, it reached a valuation of $1.5
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
PYMNTS
APRIL 30, 2018
Marketplace lending. Digital banks. It’s said to be the answer to the world’s food safety and digital identity problems. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk.
PYMNTS
MARCH 3, 2020
The company’s CEO, David Vélez, started the bank in 2013, having previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a partner in charge of the company’s investments in Latin America. . It’s offering a credit card without a yearly fee to help simplify the lending process and differentiate itself from the typical Mexican bureaucratic experience. .
Fintech Labs Insights
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on.
CB Insights
OCTOBER 21, 2018
The 2018 Fintech 250 have raised approximately $53B in aggregate funding across 947 deals since 2013, and includes startups at different investment stages of development, from early-stage (seed/Series A) companies to well-funded unicorns. Business Lending & Financing. Core Banking & Infrastructure. Digital Banking.
Fintech Labs Insights
APRIL 12, 2024
Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
160 
Let's personalize your content