Stripe, Will Smith Invest in Teen Banking Startup Step
Stripe led the $22.5 million Series A round in the startup which offers a mobile banking solution for teenagers; Will Smith participated through his ...
Mastercard Partnering With Payments Fintech Yoyo Wallet
Mastercard is launching a partnership with UK fintech Yoyo Wallet; Yoyo is a mobile wallet that can be used at point of sale to earn ...
Tink Announces That PayPal Has Become a Strategic Investor
Tink raised €56 million in new funding in February and today it announced a further investment of €1o million from PayPal; Tink is a Swedish ...
Creighton University Offering Degree in Fintech
The new degree in Finance and Technology will be offered come fall; about half of the coursework will be new classes which focus on ...
JP Morgan Chase Acquires Healthcare Payments Firm InstaMed
JP Morgan Chase is making its biggest acquisition since the financial crisis in acquiring InstaMed, the medical payments company, for more than $500 million; InstaMed ...
Announcements & Releases for May 17, 2019
Kabbage CEO Discusses Online Banking Collaboration (Podcast) Top US-Based FinTechs Making a Difference Through Artificial Intelligence ...
UK Small Business Lender iwoca Tops HSBC and Santander
UK small business lender iwoca, citing a data from industry body UK Finance, claim to have a 12% share of new small business overdrafts; this ...
Challenger Banks Overtake Traditional Banks in Customer Satisfaction
Tearsheet reports on a recent survey, the 2019 FIS Performance Against Customer Expectations (PACE) survey, of 1,800 consumers; not surprisingly, the top 50 banks did ...
Announcements & Releases for April 16, 2019
Salary Finance raises $32.8m, hires SoFi co-founder for US push Earnest Launches Private Student Loans ...
Barclays, RBS and R3 Cut Property Transaction Times in Blockchain Trial
A blockchain trial has been completed with leading UK banks Barclays and RBS along with R3-affiliated Instant Property Network (IPN); the trial used test data to ...