SoFi Money Wants to Provide Checking Accounts Without the Inconvenience
EXCLUSIVE— With its upcoming SoFi Money accounts, personal finance and lending startup SoFi wants to provide banking consumers with a...
Silver Lake Buys $500M Equity Stake in Credit Karma, Pushing Value to $4B
Credit monitoring and personal finance company Credit Karma is now valued at about $4 billion, after equity firm Silver Lake...
Starling Bank Opens Business Bank Accounts
UK-based mobile bank Starling Bank has launched accounts for small businesses, with no fees for payments or withdrawals, according to...
Monzo and Starlling Bank Integrate With CreditLadder for Rent Payments
Two of Britain’s most popular digital banks, Monzo and Starling Bank, have integrated with fellow UK startup CreditLadder, allowing users...
What Does ‘Borderless Banking’ Look Like? No Fees, No Branches, Denizen Says
EXCLUSIVE— San Francisco-based startup Denizen wants to create a new way of banking, by providing users with a “borderless” bank...
Startup CardUp Targets Check Payments With $1.7M Funding Round
Singapore-based startup CardUp is going after check and cash payments after raising about $1.7 million in new funding led by...
More Startups Should Launch in Bank Niches like Subprime Lending, Says TrueAccord CEO Ohad Samet [VIDEO]
More startups should launch in the “niche” areas of banking that incumbent institutions have started avoiding, Ohad Samet, co-founder and...
PFM MoneyLion’s Appeal to Millennials, Gen Z Is Simplicity, Says ‘Godfather of Fintech’
EXCLUSIVE—What’s behind the growth of personal finance management platform MoneyLion? A focus on simplicity and UX design that intimately appeals...
Trust Investors, Not Automation, Raisin Says
EXCLUSIVE— The newest feature brought to customers by German fintech Raisin is the ability to invest in ETF portfolios via...
BofA Launches SMB Loyalty Program to Help Grow Account Balances
Bank of America is opening a loyalty program for its small business clients, with the focus on growing a client’s...
