Digital banking

Kabbage founders launch startup to connect small businesses with gig workers

09/23/19

The startup, Drum, provides a marketplace for small businesses to offer promotions to influencers who can help them drum up business.1:54 PM?

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Fintechs serving gig-economy workers raise funds, plot expansion

09/19/19

Salaryo and Joust are among the companies catering to a clientele of underbanked entrepreneurs, Uber drivers and the like. Venture capital dollars are starting to follow.

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Banks are missing their millennial opportunity

09/19/19

With 20- and 30-somethings just beginning to build financial wealth, banks must orient their business to meet the needs of these consumers.

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Wells Fargo strikes data-sharing agreement with Plaid

09/19/19

One of the largest U.S. banks and a dominant data aggregator have signed an agreement designed to give customers more control over their data.

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Challenger banks insist they’re equal to the task of lending

09/18/19

MoneyLion and Varo say familiarity with existing customers — whom they already offer savings, investment and personal finance products — will help them make smart credit decisions.

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Banks have upper hand in tech but no room to be complacent

09/15/19

The largest financial institutions have a golden opportunity to capture more market share because of the under-40 crowd’s decided preference for digital banking, J.D. Power says. Yet so do nonbanks.

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Why BOK Financial gave its robo adviser human backup

09/11/19

In addition to launching an automated investing app, the bank created a dedicated adviser unit to provide personal service to customers when they need it.

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Patriot Financial leads $15 million round for Numerated

09/10/19

Numerated, vendor of loan prospecting, marketing and underwriting software that was developed within Eastern Bank, now has $32 million.

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Why this community bank was one of the first to trust voice banking

09/10/19

Bank Independent in Alabama was among the first to let customers bank through Amazon Alexa. Its digital chief, Kelly Burdette, shares how and why.

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Challenger banks apply pressure with fee cuts

09/08/19

Charging customers $40 for a $10 overdraft “makes no mathematical sense,” Chime CEO Chris Britt says in a critique of traditional banks.

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