Betterment to appeal to a wider customer base in 2020
For Betterment, the upcoming year will see the continuation of its trajectory from an investment platform to a place where...
Payments
With cross-border payments, Curve seeks to challenge legacy providers
U.K.-based payments startup Curve launched a cross-border in-app money transfer feature, with hopes of making a dent in the lucrative...
Grab, Singtel team up on Singapore digital bank license bid
Grab Holdings Inc. is partnering with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to apply for a full digital banking license, jumping aboard a...
‘If we can’t automate it, we don’t build it’: Wealthfront’s Andy Rachleff on ‘self-driving money’
In 2019, a chorus of digital investment platforms branched out into checking and savings accounts. Throughout the year, Wealthfront continued...
As ‘super apps’ gain ground, banks navigate user experience hurdles
With the rise of Alipay and WeChat in Asia, and the growth of e-commerce and banking capabilities within platforms like...
Marqeta to focus on growing product suite in 2020
If 2019 was the year of the challenger bank, 2020 will be the year payments companies move closer to bank...
Big tech Is coming for banking: Experts predict fintech’s 2020
Financial technology startups will enter the next decade with a little more street cred than the last time around. Nearly...
Weekly Wrap: Ongoing ‘platformification’ to continue in 2020
Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap video series, for the week ending Friday, December 20, 2019. In...
Vital Fed payment system experiences second delay of 2019
The Federal Reserve is investigating the second significant disruption in 2019 of a payments service administered by the U.S. central...
Fed Governor Brainard highlights Facebook Libra’s risks
Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard As large tech and payments companies bail on Facebook’s Libra digital currency project, Federal Reserve...
