BankInovation

OCTOBER 1, 2020

households unbanked or underbanked according to data from the FDIC, fintechs have long promised better financial access, whether through online lending that looks beyond traditional credit underwriting or digital banking startups with fewer fees. With more than one-quarter of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

In the continued linkups between banks and FinTech upstarts, new markets beckon across various borders. Among the latest examples, N26 , which is a digital-only bank based in Europe, has entered the US market through partnership with Axos Bank in order to offer FDIC insured accounts.

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MAY 27, 2020

And according to five observers across the spectrum of traditional financial institutions (FIs), payment networks and digital-only banks, opportunities are there for digital-first and hybrid models alike to succeed — so long as they harbor a relentless focus on identifying and solving customer problems.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2021

Mercury , a fintech company, has raised $120M in a Series B. California-based Mercury is an online banking platform that offers a suite of financial services such as FDIC-insured bank accounts, physical and virtual cards, and cash management for startups, e-commerce stores, and angel investors, among others.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. SoFi/Galileo: This $1.2

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The Financial Brand

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fintech's patience paying off as it nears final hurdles, setting stage for major new digital banking competitor. The post FDIC Greenlights Mobile-First Fintech Varo Money for Deposit Insurance appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. Trust in Banks. And that is a bank – one with FDIC insurance and safeguards that keep their money safe.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2021

In the past few years, the burgeoning popularity of digital banks has only underscored the severity of these problems, with upstarts like Chime and SoFi offering cheaper, faster, and more convenient banking experiences. . get the state of challenger banks report. Source: FDIC. Source: PwC. The unbanked/underbanked.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Digital banking startups are popular in Europe, dangling low fees and mobile apps to attract more customers. Challenger banks have raised $100 million worldwide in the second quarter and are the fastest-growing FinTechs, Lindsay Davis, a senior intelligence analyst at CB Insights, told the FT. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Tracker also examines how mobile and instant disbursement tools could be essential to making sure these individuals are still able to participate and transact within the digital banking world. percent in 2019, its lowest rate in a decade since the FDIC first began tracking this statistic in 2009.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The FinTech partnered with Metropolitan Commercial Bank for FDIC backing of deposits up to $250,000. “As Revolut is one of the few FinTechs to break even so quickly, but it did see a 40 percent dip in revenues amid the initial coronavirus outbreak. In March, Revolut launched in the U.S. to meet demand, the company said.

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The Financial Brand

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fintech's patience paying off as it nears final hurdles, setting stage for major new digital banking competitor. The post FDIC Greenlights Mobile-First Fintech Varo Money for Deposit Insurance appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Like other FinTechs, Betterment will partner with FDIC-insured institutions since it doesn’t have a bank charter. Although traditional financial institutions largely don’t consider FinTech firms as competition, both established and emerging FinTechs are well-positioned to capture traditional banking customers.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

but it has now moved within a few steps of obtaining what has eluded fintech firms of late: a green light from banking regulators. It was Varo's second try with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The FinTech partnered with Metropolitan Commercial Bank for FDIC backing of deposits up to $250,000. “As Revolut is one of the few FinTechs to break even so quickly, but it did see a 40 percent dip in revenues amid the initial coronavirus outbreak. In March, Revolut launched in the U.S. to meet demand, the company said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

But as of 2020, it is a subject upon which seasoned experts can disagree, in a world where traditional banks and FinTechs are operating in parallel in the market – and, in many cases, are offering similar services for consumers. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue. Baird said. “As

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, California FinTech Green Dot is rolling out the GO2bank mobile banking to help cash-strapped individuals, while stimulus checks are reportedly posing challenges for some users of H&R Block and TurboTax. Green Dot Introduces GO2bank To Help Cash-Strapped Consumers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 6, 2023

Are we about to see a rush of fintech startups serving the interest-sensitive small business market? Case in point: Just days after the Feds took over SVB, Mercury was in market with its Mercury Vault, offering $5 million in FDIC insurance by distributing balances across 20 insured banks. 95,000 6 Meow * 11 4.3%

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 4, 2023

Within days of the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, challenger small-business banking provider Mercury , was in market with a timely solution to deposit insurance stress. The post Reacting Quickly to SVB Fallout, Mercury Launches Vault, with $5M FDIC Deposit Insurance first appeared on Fintech Labs SMB Center.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 26, 2023

Are we about to see a rush of fintech startups serving the interest-sensitive small business market? But what we will surely see is challenger banks dusting off their sweep features and emphasizing them in their marketing and branding. Maybe, maybe not. 2021 SF $14 12,000 Source: FintechLabs, Crunchbase, SimilarWeb, 26 June 2023 1.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Without a regulatory mandate, many in the financial services and FinTech space believe that competition will — and already has — nudged the industry toward embracing data integrations across platforms and service providers in the name of better banking experiences. Bank participation is key to promoting open banking in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Robinhood , the FinTech that garnered a lot of attention last week after announcing a checking and savings product with 3 percent interest, has retreated from that, removing any mention of checking and savings from the product.

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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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And within FinTech, that most incandescent of sectors, things might look a bit, well, frothy. And CNBC notes that, conversely, the KBW Bank Index is down by roughly a third. The online-only bank lets customers deposit and save money on its platform and spend using a no-fee debit card.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

And, reports Forbes , there hasn’t been that kind of knee jerk reaction from banks such that a sudden flood of 90-day notices of forthcoming closures has suddenly come rolling in. But banks are increasingly announcing that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused them to rather rapidly revise their plans for branch usage and opening in the future.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Since banks with less than $10 billion in assets continue to struggle in deposit gathering, scale and overall earnings, we wonder how many will not be here in five years? The FDIC Approved This Ad How many times did we hear a speaker admonish the audience to “be sure and sign up for the FDIC notification list.” Five Hundred? (Oh

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi, to name a few, all scaled back their physical bank branch locations between 2012 and 2016, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Additionally, if recent trends are any indication, physical bank branches stand to lose a lot of ground in the near future.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

FDIC) study found that the number of unbanked U.S. Banks and financial institutions (FIs) have been layering patches and tools on top of outdated core banking systems for so long that it’s become a Frankenstein’s monster of tech entanglement. A recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. New approaches are about simplicity.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And within FinTech, that most incandescent of sectors, things might look a bit, well, frothy. And CNBC notes that, conversely, the KBW Bank Index is down by roughly a third. The online-only bank lets customers deposit and save money on its platform and spend using a no-fee debit card.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 24, 2021

I’ve been expecting digital banking disrupters in the SMB space since the beginning of the online banking era (late-1990s). Security features (account freeze, real-time transaction notifications, FDIC insured). Learn More at Lili all-in-one mobile banking service. But now we have some impressive entrants.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 24, 2021

I’ve been expecting digital banking disrupters in the SMB space since the beginning of the online banking era (late-1990s). Security features (account freeze, real-time transaction notifications, FDIC insured). Related: Watch 12 Fintech Startups Pitch at Startupbootcamp Amsterdam Demo Day (May 2021 update)).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

FinTechs … and the Banks They Wanted to Disrupt. Instead of banks being afraid of the FinTech bogeyman, it’s now more like the other way around. And that is a bank – one with FDIC insurance and safeguards that keep their money safe. 93 percent had a bank account.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2023

These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards banking technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart banktech and fintech firms.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 18, 2017

MaxMyInterest members gain access to increased FDIC insurance and competitive yields on cash balances courtesy of new partnership with UFB Direct. Bahrain-based Bank ABC goes live with omni-channel digital banking service using Backbase’s platform. Around the web.

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American Banker

JUNE 29, 2016

Ever since the financial crisis, starting a bank from scratch has been hard. But opening a digital-only de novo bank is an especially tall order.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Payments processing and digital banking tech firm i2c has partnered with business payment services provider CashFlows to benefit payment card issuers across Europe, i2c announced on Tuesday (Jan. The partnership enabled Evolve to offer its FinTech clients a way to develop customized banking and payment products.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Payments processing and digital banking tech firm i2c has partnered with business payment services provider CashFlows to benefit payment card issuers across Europe, i2c announced on Wednesday (Jan. The partnership enabled Evolve to offer its FinTech clients a way to develop customized banking and payment products.

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