What’s behind JPMorgan’s fintech fight?
/In its earnings call on Friday, JPMorgan announced that it will spend $1B per month in 2022 to move its operations to the cloud.
Read MoreIn its earnings call on Friday, JPMorgan announced that it will spend $1B per month in 2022 to move its operations to the cloud.
Read MoreGerman food-delivery platform Delivery Hero announced plans to offer buy-now-pay-later services to its customers. The company also said that it may provide financing to vendors through partnerships with banks.
Read MoreFintech behemoth Brex raised $300M in a Series D-2 round, earning a valuation of $12.3B. The company also named Karandeep Anand as its CPO.
Read MoreCrypto bank Anchorage secured $350M in Series D funding at a $3B valuation. Led by KKR, the latest round brings large institutions like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock on board for strategic growth.
Read MoreGen Z consumers have garnered considerable recent attention as incumbents and newer platforms launch offerings to cater to this market
Read MoreCapital One announced that it’s removing overdraft fees, and the $150M in annual revenue that goes along with it. The bank is also getting rid of non-sufficient fund (NSF) fees.
Read MoreNubank, the Berkshire Hathaway-backed digital banking behemoth based in Brazil, cut the targeted price range for its planned IPO by about 18% this week.
Read MoreN26, a Berlin-based neobank which operates in 25 countries and boasts more than 7 million customers (including 500,000 U.S. customers), is considering a slowdown of its U.S. market outreach.
Read MoreJiko, a banking technology provider that uses customer deposits to buy short-term treasury bills, is partnering with tech platform Euphoria on the company’s launch of a transgender-focused banking app called Bliss.
Read MoreOportun, a lender focused on the low- to moderate-income segments of the population, announced that it acquired personal-finance app Digit for $212.9M ($98.5M in equity and $114.4M in cash).
Read MoreAs neobanks replace the community banks of yesteryear as financial providers for affinity groups – including, for example, immigrants, LGBT consumers, and African Americans – Stretch is looking to zero in on the financial needs of the around 600,000 individuals in the U.S. who have been released from state and federal prisons every year.
Read MoreStarling Bank, one of the U.K.’s biggest challenger banks with millions of customers, is on a trajectory to go public in one or two years, CEO Anne Boden said.
Read MoreBrian Barnes, CEO of M1 Finance, a Chicago-based fintech that offers automated investing, borrowing and banking services, announced that he acquired First National Bank of Buhl, as an individual.
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