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Millennial-Focused Digital Bank Empower Finance Raises $20M

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San Francisco-based Empower Finance, a mobile banking app aimed at helping millennials save wealth, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Defy Ventures and Icon Ventures, according to a report. The digital banking field is fraught with competition. It offers a savings account with a 1.6

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The Impact of Mobile Card Apps On FI Customer Retention

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The trend toward digitization in consumers’ lives isn’t new, but COVID-19 has accelerated it dramatically over the past several months. Deposits had already been trending away from community banks and credit unions anyway, but COVID-19 has accelerated that shift. Lesher said a few key features comprise a modern, digital-first offering.

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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

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As the report states, “We … find that a significant share of consumers are willing to bank with the institutions — financial or otherwise — that offer them the best spending and money management tools.”. Mobile Cards: Make or Break? The highest interest is among “bridge millennials” whose card spend averages $40,000 annually.

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Digital Banking App Rankings Get Into A Groove

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We like the action, of which there is no shortage in the digital banking space. Legacy names and newcomers alike are ranging freely across the forming digital banking landscape, with digital anywhere access portals in their pockets — the smartphone. From the top it’s challenger bank Chime at No. The Top 10.

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Wells Fargo Shuts Millennial-Friendly App ‘Greenhouse’ To New Clients

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Wells Fargo has quietly stopped accepting new users for its Greenhouse mobile-first banking app, which the bank unveiled less than three years ago. The enrollment period for the Greenhouse mobile banking program has ended, and we’re no longer accepting new applications,” the company wrote on the Greenhouse program’s website.

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Why Mobile Card Apps Must Be More Than ‘A Nice Little Tool’ For FIs

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percent of consumers noted they would switch financial institutions (FIs) for a better financial app, a number that jumps up to 41 percent among bridge millennials. Cards — debit or credit — they say, are not really their core business. Meanwhile, 28.5

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Mobile Banking Users Want More Control — But At What Cost?

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A 5G network could markedly improve mobile banking apps’ speed, security and ease of use. Mobile banking apps have already enjoyed mass adoption, but what are consumers using them for? And, perhaps more importantly, what do they want from digital banking apps that they aren’t currently getting?

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