Oct 14, 2020 | FinTech, News
Venmo Launches Its First Credit Card Earlier this month, Venmo launched its own credit card, issuing it to select Venmo customers. This comes after approximately a year of the company teasing a possible credit card offering, as well as a debit card released in June...
Oct 5, 2020 | Financial Literacy, FinTech, News
Experian Report Shows Lenders Believe Alternative Credit Data Improves Financial Access for Consumers Last month, Experian released its most recent State of Alternative Data report, highlighting lender and consumer awareness about leveraging alternative credit data in...
Sep 21, 2020 | Banks & Credit Unions, FinTech, News
Survey Finds Most Americans Say They Can Now Manage Finances Without Physical Bank Branch A recent survey commissioned by Plaid found that, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans have smoothly transitioned to digital banking and are increasingly turning...
Sep 11, 2020 | FinTech, News, Online Lending
Data Firm Finds Online Loans Holding Up Better Than Expected In a newly-released report, the data firm dv01 found that the percentage of online loan borrowers who made their regularly scheduled loan payments continued to rise in August, despite the lingering and...
Sep 4, 2020 | FinTech, News
More States Establishing Regulatory Sandboxes for Fintechs Regulatory sandboxes are increasingly being used across the United States as a way to foster innovation, as they provide opportunities for companies to test new products or offerings before going through the...
Aug 19, 2020 | FinTech, News
Facebook Launches Financial Group for Payments Facebook recently revealed a new group called Facebook Financial to seek more commerce opportunities and run all payments projects, including Facebook Pay, the universal payments feature that the company plans to install...