Fintech: An Industry on the Rise in 2021
Over the past few years, fintech has become an industry to look out for in the finance world. The term fintech (financial...
OCC Conditionally Approves Charter for Paxos National Trust
Paxos, a stablecoin issuer and blockchain startup, has become the third crypto-native company to obtain a federal trust from the Office of...
JPMorgan To Launch Bitcoin Fund For Clients
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) will offer an actively managed bitcoin (BTC-USD) fund to its clients later in 2021, CoinDesk reported on April 26....
Square Inc. starts its industrial banking operations; buys TIDAL
Square Inc. announced its industrial bank, Square Financial Services, has begun operations, on March 1st, 2021. The announcement comes nearly one year...
Fed’s Wire Transfer System for Banks Experienced a Several Hour Outage
The Federal Reserve's system that allows banks to wire transfer money back and forth went down for several hours on Feb. 24....
Brex Files Application for Industrial Bank Charter with FDIC
Fintech Brex announced in a statement on Feb. 19 that it has submitted an application with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...
Goldman Sachs Partners with Marqeta to Build Checking Accounts
Goldman Sachs (GS) has partnered with card issuing startup Marqeta to build the U.S. bank's Marcus checking accounts scheduled to launch in...
Consolidation Looms Over Europe’s Digital Banks After a Tumultuous 2020
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the prominence of digital banks and online banking has increased substantially over the past year.
SoFi Merges with Social Capital Hedosophia to Form a One-Stop-Financial-Shop
SoFi, the online lender, has merged with SPAC Social Capital Hedosophia to pave the path for the fintech to go public. The...
Open Banking Platform Tink Raises $103M in Latest Funding Round
Open banking fintech Tink raised $103 million in its latest venture capital funding round. The Stockholm based-organization has raised over $210 million...
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Customers in Singapore can Open Bank Accounts with Facial Recognition
Singapore residents can now open a bank account with facial recognition, or put more simply, just a selfie.
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