Bento for Business adds ‘Zelle-like’ service for B2B payments
Bento for Business, a Chicago-based B2B payments firm, today unveiled Bento Pay, which it claims is a first-of-its-kind digital payment...
Strategy
Inspired Capital’s von Tobel opines on the next set of problems startups can solve
Alexa von Tobel is bullish on the future of consumer-facing fintech. The founder of Learnvest and former chief innovation officer...
Affirm, Lending Tree CEOs tout gains among young borrowers
Lending platforms are evolving to the needs of younger customers’ financial habits, a pair of fintech executives said at CB...
Inside Wealthfront’s lifelong customer loyalty strategy
Robo-adviser Wealthfront wants to become the center of its customers' financial lives. To do so, it's steadily added products beyond...
What MoneyLion learned from its augmented reality experiment
As consumer-facing brands roll out augmented reality and virtual reality tools to improve the customer experience, financial services companies are...
As fintech adoption grows, incumbents worry about adaptation
Upstart lenders, including startups that offer checkout loans, are rattling incumbents. According to a new study commissioned by Divido, a...
Amazon launches secured card for underbanked customers
Amazon has added a secured credit card to its suite of financial services offerings today, the latest effort to entice...
Digital-only First Internet Bank retains 90% of its original customers
As upstart digital-only banks face increasing pressure to acquire and retain customers, a 20-year-old online-only bank has managed to hold...
Mastercard to debut one-click checkout for online purchases
Taking a page from Amazon Pay, Mastercard is working with tech company EMVCo to create a one-click checkout experience for...
Nyca’s Sica: challenger banks poised to take market share from incumbents
As fintech moves beyond digitizing legacy systems to a focus on intuitive, customer-driven experiences, the field of startups competing for...
