Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Digital expense management company Expensify launched a corporate card this week, building on its automated transaction tracking technology. The card offers business customers a new tool to manage expenses and adds to the data repository that will help Expensify tailor customer experiences.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Brex is moving beyond corporate cards for startups. The San Francisco-based startup, which is valued at $2.6 Brex provides credit cards for tech entrepreneurs, as well as e-commerce and life sciences startups. billion, launched a cash account on Thursday as an ecosystem play and a source of data to improve underwriting.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Taking aim at a market dominated by decades-old private-network fuel card players, the San Francisco-based firm AtoB is teaming with Mastercard to launch an open-loop payments platform for trucking firms and fleet operators.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

So for this post to make sense, you ought to read my last 2 posts, about my experience of using my credit card in the US. The second was noting that many of the threads around card fraud led to the US – either cards being skimmed there, or card details from around the world ending up in the US, where just the mag stripe is required.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Level, a digital banking startup based in San Francisco Calif., Level is also offering 1% debit card rewards and paycheck deposits two days early to sweeten the deal for customers. is trying to hook customers with a 2.1% savings account annual percentage yield.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Users of Square’s virtual payment cards can now link those cards to their Apple Wallets, expanding the company’s reach in the payments sphere once again—this time with Square Cash leading the way. The tie-in was announced yesterday at the Recode Code Commerce event in San Francisco by Square CEO Jack Dorsey. Read More.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

San Francisco-based credit startup Zero is taking its debit-style credit model to Android. Bryce Galen, CEO and co-founder of Zero, told Bank Innovation the launch is evidence of the growing demand for “financially responsible” credit cards. The company launched an iOS app earlier this year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It’s been a year since the EMV card reader deadline. Now, the big card companies — Visa, Mastercard, American Express and others — are all facing a class-action lawsuit brought by retailers over the new chip readers. Florida-based B&R Supermarket Inc. Florida-based B&R Supermarket Inc. 1, 2015.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

To help local companies continue to bring in revenue amid COVID-19 restrictions, Instagram Co-founder Mike Krieger and his wife, Kaitlyn, rolled out a directory of eateries in the Bay Area offering gift cards called SaveOurFaves. Visitors can browse by location or query for restaurants in the region, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

The latest infusion of cash came from TSG Consumer Partners , a San Francisco-based private equity company. Other investors included Menlo Park, California-based TCV and Index Ventures , the global venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, along with half a dozen others.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Credit Sesame, the San Francisco-based credit score monitoring and advice platform, is building out its AI-based credit management tools with the help of a major fundraising round last week.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 30, 2019

The San Francisco-based startup — whose main business is providing corporate credit cards to tech companies, startups and their employees — had previously raised money at […]. Just two years after it was founded, Brex Inc.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The San Francisco-based company processed $13.7 Mobile payments company Square grew its gross payment volume 34% over last year, and its loans through Square Capital were up twice that — 68%. billion in payments in the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with $10.2 billion in the same quarter last year. Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Wells Fargo rolls out its virtual card services for B2B payments, while PayPal Ventures makes a B2B payments investment. 19) announced in a press release that it is adding a new solution to its WellsOne Virtual Commercial Card , enabling business customers to digitally pay invoices to suppliers and others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2019

Shops in Mexico started asking customers to pay with cash after several of the country’s biggest banks started having issues handling debit and credit card payments, Reuters reported on Saturday (Aug. Reuters reported that it was not immediately clear whether cards other than those issued by Banorte, HSBC and Santander were affected. .

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – When the co-founders of FitPay, a contactless payment technology provider, agreed to be acquired by security tech company NXT-ID back in May, the primary goal behind the deal was to enable growth for the San Francisco-based startup. And grow it did.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

San Francisco is considering following in the footsteps of New Jersey and Philadelphia and banning cashless stores, including Amazon Go, according to a report from CNBC. Many lawmakers say cashless stores are discriminatory toward lower-income individuals, as well as those without bank accounts or credit cards.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Embedded Payments A 2022 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco noted that app payments increased as a percentage of total consumer purchases from 11% in 2019 to 15% in 2020, to 29% in 2021. At just 4 cents per transaction, the fees to the merchant are far less than the 2% to 3% fees charged by credit cards.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

The San Francisco-based bank is looking at partnerships as a way of improving banking experience for its current digital users (including mobile). “We Wells Fargo has been going through a rough patch lately, but the bank itself is focused on moving forward. This is especially true when it comes to digital banking.

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BankInovation

JUNE 18, 2021

Mission Lane was founded in 2018 with the idea of expanding access to credit cards to users with limited or spotty credit history, and has acquired over 1 million customers since that time.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2017

That’s what the San Francisco-based bank is expecting, at least. Will Wells Fargo’s newly launched Commercial Electronic Office (CEO) Mobile Token encourage its traditionally paper-focused customers to crossover to mobile?

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Payments Source

JUNE 19, 2018

Rather than focus on credit history, San Francisco-based Brex Inc. looks at funding raised in order to issue cards to companies and employees to cover startup expenses.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This makes sense, since the San Francisco-based digital bank’s mobile app is currently only available on iOS. EXCLUSIVE- SME banking app, Seed, is gearing up to roll out a tool that supports Apple iPhone X’s new Face ID feature, Bank Innovation learned.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 28, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— San Francisco-based startup Denizen wants to create a new way of banking, by providing users with a “borderless” bank account that doesn’t come with all of the hassle and pain points of international finance, co-founder and CEO Joaquin Ayuso de Paul told Bank Innovation.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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BankInovation

AUGUST 1, 2023

The San Francisco-based digital bank recognized barriers between bill pay, card payments and Automated Clearing House wire transfers and built a solution to automate the manual processes that generally fall to accounts payable […]

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2021

Roger was founded by two Danes and has offices in Copenhagen and San Francisco. Ron Clarke, chairman and CEO of FLEETCOR, said in the release: “This acquisition provides us with a modern, cloud-based bill payment platform that will immediately open up cross-sell opportunities into our global SMB fuel card base.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The card network has outfitted the big game's venue, Levi's Stadium, with over 500 contactless-enabled point-of-sale terminals and 200 more across other Super Bowl-related venues in San Francisco and Santa Clara.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Facebook also argued that while logins were compromised, data of real value like card numbers remained protected and unharmed. The case was filed in San Francisco federal court as a class action. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco). The case is Echavarria v. Facebook Inc.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The giant eCommerce website can now connect a stored credit card with a palm print. But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said. CNN reports Amazon has introduced the latest touchless way to pay at checkout.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Wells Fargo customers nationwide are experiencing technical difficulty accessing the San Francisco-based bank’s online and mobile banking services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

“Visa seeks to buy Plaid — as its CEO said — as an ‘insurance policy’ to neutralize a ‘threat to our important US debit business,’” the Justice Department said in its lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court. For instance, when a user sets up a Venmo account, Plaid lets the person link their bank account to their Venmo account.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The San Francisco-based company also participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch. The card will be issued by Emigrant Savings Bank. We’ve spent time building our card issuing technology from the ground up, giving us the flexibility to partner with a number of financial platforms.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In the fifth official study conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Boston, Richmond and San Francisco, the 2018 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice (DCPC) detailed the cash and non-cash payment behavior of U.S. made over half of their payments with cards (debit, credit and prepaid) at 54 percent or 23 payments.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2018

For the task, San Francisco-based Bento raised $9 million in a new round of funding today. Bento for Business wants to provide its customers with money management tools combined with banking solutions, similar to the personal financial management app for millennials, MoneyLion, according to company CEO Farhan Ahmad.

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