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Digital Bank Chime Suffers Outage Affecting 5M Customers

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We can assure you all account information remains secure, and no personal or financial data is at risk.”. San Francisco-based Chime launched in 2013, offering debit cards, savings accounts and checking accounts to consumers without any fees. The startup generates income by receiving a portion of interchange fees from debit cards.

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How Axis Bank Prevents Identity Fraud With Video-Based Onboarding

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its associated social distancing and stay-at-home orders have pushed untold services online for easier consumer access, with banking serving as a prime example. We’ll see more and more [of this] action as digital [banking] progresses.”. Fraud Threats To Digital Banking.

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PayPal Eyes Buying Crypto Firm BitGo, Others

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Mike Belshe , BitGo's chief executive officer, founded the company in 2013 to offer highly secure digital wallets for crypto, which need multiple signatures for transactions. It's unknown how much PayPal might pay to buy BitGo. BitGo raised $58.5 million in 2018 and was valued at $170 million, according to PitchBook.

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

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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.

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Neobank Northmill Gets Swedish Banking License

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N26, which started in 2013, has a valuation of €2.38 billion and offers banking services that it says are all-inclusive with zero hidden fees. Monzo recently secured €126 in funding on a €2.2 billion valuation.

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Plaid FinTech Expands Into Three More European Countries

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The Silicon-based startup, launched in 2013, uses a unified application programming interface (API) to link FinTech apps with people’s bank accounts. Plaid says it has integrated with 15,000 banks in the U.S. Plaid earned its unicorn status after securing a $250 million funding round in December. and Canada.

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Matt Kane Named CEO Of Chase Commerce Solutions

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Kane will report to Gordon Smith, CEO of consumer and community banking. He is replacing Mike Passilla, who was chosen as the company’s chief executive in May 2013 to oversee development of Chase Paymentech and other merchant-focused offerings.