Fifth Third now offers free digital financial education programs for students from elementary school through high school. The bank has expanded access to its Fifth Third Bank Finance Academy to junior high students, adding them to the high school students for whom the program was...
Shopping/financial services app Tabby is acquiring Saudi digital wallet Tweeq. The deal, announced Tuesday (Sept. 3), will let Tweeq continue to operate independently, while allowing Tabby to consider expanding its financial products suite to include features like digital spending accounts, cards and money management tools....
Investing and checking accounts app Acorns reportedly expects to launch an initial public offering (IPO), possibly sometime in the next couple of years. “That is likely something we will do in the future,” Acorns CEO Noah Kerner told Bloomberg Television on Thursday (June 20), adding...
The headlines swirl around Synapse’s bankruptcy and customers’ tales of being frozen out of their accounts. The FinTech space is always evolving, and the ongoing legal wrangling and attempts to find $85 million in account shortfalls will seemingly be long and drawn out, with no...
September 07, 2023
Consumers’ appetites for an all-in-one app are growing, with nearly 4 in 10 European consumers craving a single app to manage their everyday digital activities. PYMNTS’ latest research shows this trend is particularly popular among consumers in Italy and Spain. This growing sentiment is detailed in “The Global Appeal of an Everyday App: Focus on […]
August 03, 2023
Super apps like Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat have become super successful in Asia. Their market dominance in turn has made Western entrepreneurs “super” interested in building their own, perhaps...
January 27, 2020
In the paycheck-to-paycheck economy, estimates vary slightly. Some analysts have reported that roughly 65 percent of all U.S. workers now live paycheck to paycheck, and a large fraction of those...
October 30, 2019
The need is pretty clear in the world of payments: Apps can potentially be game-changers, but only if they are seamless and bring more convenience to consumers’ lives. And the...
September 26, 2024
Financial software firm Intuit is integrating two of its most popular consumer finance offerings. “Upcoming innovations across TurboTax and Credit Karma will deliver a single, connected consumer financial platform that delivers insights and recommendations year-round and done-for-you experiences at tax time,” the company said Thursday (Sept. 26). The announcement was in conjunction with Intuit’s investors […]
September 16, 2024
Fifth Third now offers free digital financial education programs for students from elementary school through high school. The bank has expanded access to its Fifth Third Bank Finance Academy to...
September 03, 2024
Shopping/financial services app Tabby is acquiring Saudi digital wallet Tweeq. The deal, announced Tuesday (Sept. 3), will let Tweeq continue to operate independently, while allowing Tabby to consider expanding its...
June 20, 2024
Investing and checking accounts app Acorns reportedly expects to launch an initial public offering (IPO), possibly sometime in the next couple of years. “That is likely something we will do...
