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Top News In Payments: Paytm Secures $1B In New Funding; Olo Pilots BMW In-Car Ordering

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Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes? PYMNTS caught up with VB in the wake of big news from the Big Tech, payments and banking world: Google plans to launch consumer checking accounts next year in partnership with Citigroup and the Stanford Federal Credit Union.

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Service UX: US Bank’s Well-Designed Appointment Scheduler

Fintech Labs Insights

Bank uses modern design and thoughtful UX to make it work just as the user would expect. You can also find it on the unsecured site , but the bank does not point to it directly (we found through Google search), so apparently, the bank has not fully embraced the idea for non-customers (possibly a pandemic related decision).

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Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes?

PYMNTS

Banks and credit unions are certainly not on their way out, even as they face more pressure from challenger banks, FinTechs and Big Tech in the coming decade. But as a recent Google announcement demonstrated, FIs are engaging with technology players in new ways as together, they seek to create ecosystems that offer new value to consumers.

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1M Users & Growing: 20+ Fintech Startups That Have Crossed The 1 Million Account Mark — And How They Got There

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Today, there are over 20 fintech startups that have crossed the 1 million customer account mark, according to CB Insights data — including Acorns , Robinhood , SoFi , Coinbase , and Credit Karma , among others. oVER 20 Fintech startups with 1m+ customer accounts. fintech startups are Changing the consumer experience.

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What’s Fueling Poland’s Tech Growth Engine?

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Warsaw is home to the third Google Campus in Europe. Poland is carving out its own path to startup ecosystem success with a string of digital success stories, a well-developed startup infrastructure and the new Google Campus in Warsaw. Those two groups don’t talk to each other. They don’t know how to find each other.

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Wells Fargo’s Greenhouse has UX issues to overcome ahead of national rollout

Fintech Labs Insights

It’s not listed on any product page, but a Greenhouse landing page is discoverable via site search (or Google search). It also demonstrates the UX disconnect often found at large enterprises. This is another smaller UX issue, there were several activity thresholds to meet to earn the $50. Related: UX Tips: U.S.

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A New Year, a New (York) FinDEVr — New Presenters and New Savings!

Fintech Labs Insights

And on March 29 & 30, these companies will showcase their latest tools, technologies, APIs, platforms, case studies and tutorials for creating the next wave of fintech innovations in 15-minute, TED-style presentations. Google Cloud Platform. The Beast Apps. Fidor Bank. Financial Apps. Hyperwallet. The Mifos Initiative. VIX Verify.