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Brex Offers FDIC Insurance, Adds Chief Legal Officer

PYMNTS

Brex , the San Francisco financial technology startup, is offering FDIC insurance on its no-fee cash management account, the company announced Wednesday (July 22). The new feature in Brex Cash allows customers the choice to hold cash savings with FDIC insurance, or invest in Money Market Funds.

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5 Banking Trends We’re Forecasting for 2023

Perficient

User experience. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), in 2000, there were 8,000 commercial banks in the United States, but as of March 2022, that number had dwindled to 4,194 operating physical bank branches. Another example is Eno , Capital One’s virtual assistant.

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Neobank Joust Raises $2.6M To Improve Freelancer Payments

PYMNTS

The bank combines an FDIC-insured account and a merchant account and accepts a variety of payments. Freelancers require credit and banking products that mirror the user experience of the consumer market but [offer] the product sophistication of the small business market,” said Dave Fields, founder and managing partner of PTB Ventures.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

PYMNTS

Our focus has always been on user experience and for them to get capital in less than ten minutes. That was a challenge that it was definitely unexpected where we had to come up with an alternative and now we’re happy to be working with an FDIC regulated bank.”.

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The Only Thing to Hate About Personal Finance Management Is the Term ‘PFM’

Javelin Strategy & Research

Last week, robo-adviser Betterment scored another $60 million in venture capital, giving it a valuation of up to $500 million. In January, Capital One snatched up Level Money’s budget app. Digit is an FDIC-insured automated savings account. And that brings me to Digit.