Financial Literacy

Greenlight Raises $54M To Enhance Kid-Friendly Financial Tools
Greenlight Raises $54M To Enhance Kid-Friendly Financial Tools
September 16, 2019  |  Investments

Greenlight, which provides a debit card and app to teach kids about financial education, has closed a $54 million Series B funding round that was...

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Teen Banking App Startup Gets $22.5M In Funding
Teen Banking App Startup Gets $22.5M In Funding
June 06, 2019  |  Investments

Step, a finance startup aimed at teens, has raised $22.5 million in a funding round led by Stripe, according to a report. Step builds mobile...

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Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
April 29, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

By the numbers, Americans are not a very financially literate people.  According to a Standard & Poor’s Global Financial Literacy survey only about 57 percent...

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Consumers Still Have Much To Learn To Reach Financial Literacy
Consumers Still Have Much To Learn To Reach Financial Literacy
April 24, 2019  |  Financial Inclusion

As Financial Literacy month comes to a close, we take a look at how consumers are faring with their finances. Despite being saddled with debt,...

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Klarna Launches Money Management Content Hub
Klarna Launches Money Management Content Hub
April 16, 2019  |  Consumer Finance

Furthering its mission to make payments easier for people so they can be financially healthy, Klarna, the U.K. payments company, announced the launch of Mindful...

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Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative
Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative
February 05, 2019  |  Loans

You know the story. Critics say that short-term, small-dollar loans push consumers into the hamster wheel of a never-ending debt cycle – one that turns a two-day...

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CNBC, Acorns Announce Partnership And Investment
CNBC, Acorns Announce Partnership And Investment
January 28, 2019  |  Investments

CNBC and Acorns, the FinTech that makes a mobile investing and savings app, announced on Monday (Jan. 28) a strategic partnership to create editorial content and...

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Today In Data: Finding And Minding The Digital Gaps
Today In Data: Finding And Minding The Digital Gaps
October 19, 2018  |  Today In Data

The world is changing – in some ways highly reported, in others less so. Millennials are credited as the digital generation, leaving their parents and grandparents...

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