Bank Innovation

JANUARY 26, 2020

New York City-based Grasshopper Bank is geared toward startups, with a focus on pain points for founders. Grasshopper opened in May 2019 after securing FDIC and OCC approval, a rare distinction for a digital-only bank.

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JULY 11, 2018

Citizens Financial Group announced the launch of its nationwide, direct-to-consumer digital bank. Citizens Access safely and securely offers Member FDIC-insured online savings and CD accounts with attractive rates and no fees to customers across the United States.

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MAY 28, 2020

Hispanic immigrants access digital banking services, according to a press release. Hispanic immigrants have access to actual banking services, the release states, citing an FDIC survey. Less than half of U.S.

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JULY 30, 2019

That is why, MoneyLion Founder and CEO Dee Choubey said , his firm has set out to build a bank that isn’t a bank. In the sense that it is a bank, MoneyLion takes deposits and makes sure those deposits are FDIC insured through a backend partnership with a traditional bank, Choubey said.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The bank is one of a few smaller lenders that has teamed up with FinTechs who need services only an FDIC-regulated institution can provide. This is the first time a FinTech has purchased an actual bank. Recently, Varo Money , a mobile bank, got FDIC approval to accept consumer deposits.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

N26 partners with Axos Bank to offer a Visa debit card and FDIC-insured checking account. Since the initial product launch in 2015, N26 has reached more than 3.5 million customers in 25 markets in Europe. N26 started rolling out in the U.S.

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JULY 16, 2019

Among the latest examples, N26 , which is a digital-only bank based in Europe, has entered the US market through partnership with Axos Bank in order to offer FDIC insured accounts.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This week, digital banking startup Varo received approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a significant milestone in the company’s three-year quest to become a bank.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2021

In the past few years, the burgeoning popularity of digital banks has only underscored the severity of these problems, with upstarts like Chime and SoFi offering cheaper, faster, and more convenient banking experiences. . get the state of challenger banks report. Source: FDIC. Source: PwC. The unbanked/underbanked.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Tracker also examines how mobile and instant disbursement tools could be essential to making sure these individuals are still able to participate and transact within the digital banking world. percent in 2019, its lowest rate in a decade since the FDIC first began tracking this statistic in 2009.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Digital alternatives may rid the world of some of life’s inconveniences, but for the banking sector, a trip to the local branch is not yet replaceable. Although consumers are increasingly turning to digital banking services, many still cling to the services of their brick-and-mortar counterparts — the stalwarts of the finance industry.

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MAY 15, 2019

Safra Bank to offer its traders deposit accounts backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC) — the FDIC-insured accounts will be linked to a crypto prime dealer. “These are quite different from speculative assets like bitcoins, and more promising.”. And SFOX is partnering with New York-based M.Y.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Digital banking startups are popular in Europe, dangling low fees and mobile apps to attract more customers. Challenger banks have raised $100 million worldwide in the second quarter and are the fastest-growing FinTechs, Lindsay Davis, a senior intelligence analyst at CB Insights, told the FT. .

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APRIL 24, 2020

The investment also sees Malaysia-based V Capital establishing a strategic partnership with the bank to help it expand throughout Southeast Asia as it seeks its own Digital Bank License in Malaysia. Cross River Bank aims to connect FinTechs and corporates like Amazon and Google with digital banking, lending and deposit services.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Payments processing and digital banking tech firm i2c has partnered with business payment services provider CashFlows to benefit payment card issuers across Europe, i2c announced on Tuesday (Jan. The partnership enabled Evolve to offer its FinTech clients a way to develop customized banking and payment products.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Payments processing and digital banking tech firm i2c has partnered with business payment services provider CashFlows to benefit payment card issuers across Europe, i2c announced on Wednesday (Jan. The partnership enabled Evolve to offer its FinTech clients a way to develop customized banking and payment products.

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 1, 2020

households unbanked or underbanked according to data from the FDIC, fintechs have long promised better financial access, whether through online lending that looks beyond traditional credit underwriting or digital banking startups with fewer fees. With more than one-quarter of U.S.

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 1, 2020

households unbanked or underbanked according to data from the FDIC, fintechs have long promised better financial access, whether through online lending that looks beyond traditional credit underwriting or digital banking startups with fewer fees. With more than one-quarter of U.S.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2021

California-based Mercury is an online banking platform that offers a suite of financial services such as FDIC-insured bank accounts, physical and virtual cards, and cash management for startups, e-commerce stores, and angel investors, among others. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING? Want the full post?

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

FIS Powers Launch Of Quontic Bank’s Bitcoin Rewards Account. FIS, the bank software and payment technology firm, unveiled a collaboration with Quontic Bank on the Bitcoin Rewards Checking Account. The rollout makes Quontic “the first FDIC insured financial institution in the U.S. Aeldra’s U.S.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The FinTech partnered with Metropolitan Commercial Bank for FDIC backing of deposits up to $250,000. “As The startup reminded people that cryptocurrencies are not regulated in the U.K. by the FCA and are not protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. In March, Revolut launched in the U.S. to meet demand, the company said.

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JUNE 9, 2020

percent APY, an optional auto-deposit, no fees or minimums, and security as “Affirm Savings is FDIC-insured and accounts are held by our bank partner, Cross River Bank, member FDIC,” per the announcement. The Affirm Savings account comes with 1.30

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BankInovation

MARCH 12, 2024

Fintel Connect helps Live Oak Bank increase its deposit volume. The digital, FDIC-insured bank looked to affiliate marketing platform Fintel Connect nearly two years ago to expand its reach, Fintel Connect Chief Executive Nicky Senyard tells Bank Automation News on this episode of “The Buzz” podcast.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The banking platform is designed for mobile devices and API connectivity, with NorthOne noting that development partner Treasury Prime designed that API technology to streamline account opening and management. Last year, the Canada-based company raised $2 million from investors Peter Graham, Tom Williams and Ferst Capital Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And CNBC notes that, conversely, the KBW Bank Index is down by roughly a third. The online-only bank lets customers deposit and save money on its platform and spend using a no-fee debit card. Accounts are FDIC-insured through a partnership with Bancorp Bank.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Chime , a digital banking startup based in San Francisco, said it has reached a threshold of five million customers and plans to introduce a new overdraft initiative to help them, according to a report. The startup is an FDIC-insured mobile bank that has no physical branches and pledges to offer customers fewer fees.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The OCC and FDIC have issued a joint proposal to revise their regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Although the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC, are the primary CRA regulators, the Fed did not join the proposal and presumably will issue a separate proposal. ” Click here to register. Our thoughts.

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Perficient

AUGUST 9, 2022

Mike Randall, a co-founder of Greenwood, wanted to address the specific issue of bank branches being replaced by check cashing places that charge absurdly high-interest rates. To offer another example of a bank consciously aimed at supporting the underserved, Forbes just recognized Quontic as the number one “best overall online bank.”

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MAY 27, 2020

For banks, the opportunity is there to cement the trust of their customers during uncertain times that have made individuals increasingly uncertain about personal health, job security, paychecks and even whether the money they have in the accounts is safe and sound.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

And, reports Forbes , there hasn’t been that kind of knee jerk reaction from banks such that a sudden flood of 90-day notices of forthcoming closures has suddenly come rolling in. But banks are increasingly announcing that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused them to rather rapidly revise their plans for branch usage and opening in the future.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

Shortly after Robinhood launched the products, questions arose about how the money would be insured and if it would be protected like a bank account that has the backing of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Robinhood’s new products aren’t insured by the FDIC but do have the protection of the Securities Investor Protection Corp.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Which is a bit of a problem, since there are objectively fewer banks now than there were even five years ago. According to the FDIC, banking branches are at their lowest level in a decade with only 93,283 left open. Physical banks reportedly hit their peak in 2009 and have declined 6 percent since then.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Controversy around the wisdom (or not) of investing in the branch channel amidst rapidly growing digital banking adoption is showing no signs of letting up. Consider three articles published in the past week: Bank Innovation covering Associated Bank branch closures to fund digital channel initiatives.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The research filtered data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Since 2009, bank branches have been steadily declining from a high of near 100,000. In excess of 13,200 branches have closed in the past 10 years as the industry has gone digital, JLL said. There was a 2.2 markets in the study.

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MAY 26, 2016

A new report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shows that mobile banking can empower underserved customers to have greater control over their finances and ultimately open up access to mainstream banking.

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MARCH 26, 2020

LendingClub, on the other hand, started life as a FinTech, but will become a bank after buying one earlier this year. Square also made the jump into officially becoming a bank this week, with the award of an ILC banking license by the FDIC. What we learned was interesting. “I

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JULY 24, 2019

Like other FinTechs, Betterment will partner with FDIC-insured institutions since it doesn’t have a bank charter. The average national yield of savings accounts is 0.10%, whereas Betterment’s annual yield is 2.69%. Profits from the new offerings will come from debit card interchange fees, the article said.

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