How KeyPoint uses location-based alerts to target inactive app users
Silicon Valley-based KeyPoint Credit Union is seeing a lift in user numbers resulting from targeted push notifications. The push notifications...
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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...
Australian point-of-sale lender Afterpay guns for U.S. market
Point-of-sale lender Afterpay reports it has 1.5 million U.S.customers, a milestone it's achieved by embedding itself into the payment platforms...
Why Chase decided to drop digital-banking app Finn
JPMorgan Chase's millennial-friendly digital banking app Finn is shutting down, just one year after it rolled out nationally. In an...
Guaranty Bank & Trust uses account-switching tool to promote new branches
Guaranty Bank & Trust is using new technology to make it easier for potential new customers to switch bank accounts...
Digital customer migration leads U.S. Bank to close more Chicago-area branches
U.S. Bancorp is closing 21 branches in the Chicago area as part of a restructuring plan to expand its physical...
Northwestern Mutual commits $150m to startup investments
Northwestern Mutual has launched a second venture fund to support startups working in financial services. This builds on the $43...
TAB Bank turns to data analytics firm to improve SME loan process
TAB Bank is tapping into the services of a data analytics firm to streamline small business loan application processes and...
PayPal invests $11.2m in Swedish open banking platform Tink
Online payments giant PayPal is a strategic investor in Stockholm-based open banking platform Tink, the companies announced today. A spokesperson...
Varo’s FDIC application tests uncharted territory
Varo Money has been striving to get a banking charter for three years. On Aug. 31, 2018, the digital-only challenger...
