Birch Looks to Optimize Your CC Rewards
Confused as to which credit card best fits your needs? A Gainesville, Fla.-based startup says it will help you decide, by...
Banking
Acorns Transforms ‘Cash Back’ into ‘Cash Forward’
Acorns is bettingthat millennials will prefer “cash forward” to the old-school “cash back” rewards on their purchases. Earlier this week,...
MasterCard Releases Its IoT App for Samsung Refrigerator
The vision of a refrigerator -- and internet of things -- that can facilitate home shopping has been realized. MasterCard...
SigFig Scores a Robo Deal with UBS
SigFig, a San Francisco-based robo advisor, partnered with UBS Wealth Management to create and customize digital tools for WMA’s 7,000...
Why is Bank of the West Hosting a Hackathon? To ‘Learn, Learn, Learn’
Fear of fintech disruption is still common in banking, but for Bank of the West, "fintech" means opportunity. The San Francisco-based...
Lending Club Shares Remain Under Pressure
The firing of Renaud Laplanche at Lending Club has not stemmed the stock's decline, and some market observers are starting to...
Innovation Comes to Employee Benefits via PayActiv, Student Loan Genius
Two fintech startups are bringing their ideas to an unusual -- yet universal -- area: employee benefits. A few weeks...
Investments, Financial Management, and Even Some Virtual Reality: Finovate Day 2
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Day 2 of Finovate saw a seeming parade of wealth management and investment solutions, but the final...
Investing, Authentication, and a Few Bots at Finovate
Image from Finovate.com SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Thirty-nine companies demoed their products to the crowd at Finovate Spring today. Not...
Dwolla CEO: Faster Payments Offer ‘Substantial New Market Opportunities’
It looks like this faster payments thing is going to happen after all. When the Federal Reserve floated the idea...
