Banking: Page 81


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    Goldman Sachs bows to clients, embraces 'digital money,' bank president says

    "There's no question in our mind, there's going to be more digital commerce, a lot more, an explosion in digital commerce," said Goldman President John Waldron.

    By March 11, 2021
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    Why Cardlytics acquired fintech Dosh for $275M

    With Dosh, Cardlytics gets access to a younger user base, a roster of fintech clients and a toolset to launch new cash back reward offerings in weeks instead of months.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • March 10, 2021
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    Digital wallets proliferate as features advance

    As more companies aim to offer digital wallets the rise in competition is sharpening their features.  

    By Payments Dive staff
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    Credit card debt cut by $83B in 2020, study finds

    Consumer frugality dropped the country's overall credit card tab under $1 trillion, but spending picked up again in Q4 and Americans are likely to be back to their old habits soon, data firm WalletHub found.

    By March 9, 2021
  • Plaid payroll product streamlines income verification

    Plaid Income is the second product the company has launched since the termination of a proposed $5.3 billion tie-up with Visa, signaling the scrapped deal is not slowing the expansion of the fintech's suite.

    By Anna Hrushka • March 8, 2021
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    Can banks win in the booming buy-now-pay-later space?

    While BNPL represents a relatively small niche of the payments ecosystem, banks should take note of what the growth of that silo says about the next generation of consumers, one consultant said.

    By Anna Hrushka • March 8, 2021
  • Square launches long-awaited industrial bank

    The FDIC gave the fintech conditional approval for an ILC charter nearly a year ago. Now the company can originate small-business loans rather than doing so through its previous partner, Celtic Bank.

    By Dan Ennis • March 2, 2021
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    Inside Marqeta's plans to grow its 'card-as-a-service' offering

    The card issuer and processor is differentiating through a flexible, API-based platform that helps clients launch card offerings in months instead of years.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • March 2, 2021
  • Gemini Exchange moves into credit cards, yield-bearing programs

    Crypto exchange’s push is the latest in the growing list of blockchain players adding banking-like benefits. 

    By Ted Jackson • March 1, 2021
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    BNY Mellon commits to holding, transferring and issuing crypto

    The New York-based bank said Thursday it is developing a client-facing prototype for a multi-asset digital custody and administration platform set to roll out this year.

    By Dan Ennis • Feb. 11, 2021
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    Sam's Club teams up with Synchrony, Mastercard for rewards program

    The club retailer, like others in the retail space, is also simplifying the application process as consumers continue to struggle financially.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Feb. 8, 2021
  • Aggregator MX to expand reach of 'money experiences' as it angles toward IPO

    The company has quadrupled its value in the past year in a field that, amid the Visa-Plaid deal's disintegration, has room for "co-opetition," one analyst said, as some banks use multiple data aggregators.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • Jan. 20, 2021
  • Plaid sees 'opportunity' after $5.3B Visa deal ends

    The data aggregator's biggest priority now is getting 75% of its traffic dedicated to application programming interfaces by the end of 2021 — a prospect John Pitts, Plaid's head of policy, calls an "immense challenge."

    By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 19, 2021
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    Payments company CFO: We won't work with partners 'not aligned with our values'

    Affirm went public on Wednesday, a week after the insurrection that has spurred many platforms to reassert their values.

    By Jane Thier • Jan. 14, 2021
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    Mastercard pilot turns smartphones into a point-of-sale device

    Expansion into the contactless tech space has accelerated due to the pandemic and is expected to continue. 

    By Kaarin Moore • Jan. 14, 2021
  • Visa terminates $5.3B acquisition of Plaid after DOJ antitrust suit

    The abandonment of the deal won't keep Visa from pursuing partnerships with Plaid or other fintechs, CEO Al Kelly said Tuesday during a call with analysts.

    By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 13, 2021
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    Affirm IPO hits $1.2B

    The buy now, pay later tech company announced an initial public offering stock price of $49, but opened at nearly $100 on its first day of trading.

    By Daphne Howland , Kaarin Moore • Updated Jan. 19, 2021
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    Banks can use stablecoins, blockchains for payments, OCC says

    The move follows a letter the agency issued in July clarifying national banks are allowed to provide cryptocurrency custody services, and hold unique cryptographic "keys" associated with cryptocurrency on behalf of customers.

    By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 5, 2021
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    Crypto firms Paxos, BitPay apply for national bank charters

    The OCC has taken a series of crypto-friendly actions under acting Comptroller Brian Brooks as lawmakers and trade groups continue to push back.

    By Anna Hrushka • Dec. 14, 2020
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    Bank of America flags 640K accounts on suspected unemployment benefits fraud

    The figure includes 76,000 cards — upon which the bank issues the benefits under contract with the state of California — that were sent to nonadjacent states or filed in the names of infants, children and centenarians.

    By Dan Ennis • Dec. 10, 2020
  • Capital One halts buy-now-pay-later credit card transactions

    The move stands in contrast to fellow credit-card issuers Citi and JPMorgan Chase, which last year launched fixed-payoff options. PayPal and Ally Financial this year announced they were rolling out installment loans.

    By Dan Ennis • Dec. 7, 2020
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    Teen-aimed banking app Step gets celebrity boost

    The platform said it raised $50 million in a Series B funding round that included investment from singer Justin Timberlake, music group The Chainsmokers and retired athlete Eli Manning.

    By Anna Hrushka • Dec. 3, 2020
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    Behind BNY Mellon's war against B2B checks

    Peer-to-peer payments have made consumer transactions cheap and efficient. BNY Mellon wants to do that for business payments, with additional communication, reporting and security measures.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • Nov. 25, 2020
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    Google revamps Google Pay, adds 3 new partner banks

    With a redesigned app and an expanded network of banks that have signed on to offer co-branded accounts, the tech giant continues its push into the consumer financial services space.

    By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 19, 2020
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    Credit action helped payments company FLEETCOR withstand COVID-19

    The company reined in the amount companies could float, limiting its exposure amid the uncertainty.

    By Robert Freedman • Nov. 15, 2020
  • Fed, FinCEN want to make banks report international transfers of as little as $250

    Friday's proposal to lower the threshold from $3,000 is meant to catch bad actors using low-dollar cross-border transactions to facilitate terrorist financing and other illicit activity.

    By Anna Hrushka • Oct. 26, 2020