Embedded finance’s new frontiers: insurance, health care
SEATTLE -- Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly...
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Student loan advice platform Payitoff wins 2020 Ignite demo contest
Payitoff, a white-label platform that provides automated guidance on student loan repayment, won the 2020 Bank Innovation Ignite DEMOvation contest....
Robinhood suffers online outage with US stocks rebounding
Robinhood Markets Inc.’s brokerage website experienced technical issues Monday with some customers unable to make trades on a day when...
Fifth Third’s Dobot savings app hits $425M in savings goals since launch
Dobot, the automated savings platform acquired by Fifth Third in 2018, is working to help its users save $425 million...
Bankers and aggregators disagree on data-sharing approaches
The parameters around how consumer financial information should be shared with third-party apps and platforms was the subject of debate...
With Credit Karma, Intuit to boost personalization
Intuit, the business and financial software company behind TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint, plans to buy personal finance platform Credit Karma...
Citizens looks to employees to evolve product roadmap
A “Shark Tank”-style pitch competition has been launched at Citizens Bank, allowing employees to compete for internal innovation fund dollars...
Earnest partners with adviser network to boost customer acquisition
Earnest, a student loan startup that was acquired by the student loan servicing company Navient in 2017, is turning to...
Envestnet executives mum on Yodlee sale, despite revenue pressure
The impact of Visa’s Plaid acquisition for $5.3 billion continues to fuel speculation about the future of data aggregator Yodlee,...
Weekly Wrap: Banner week for fintech acquisitions
Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap series, for the week ending Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. In this...
