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Dave’s ExtraCash Jumps 29% as Consumers Seek Emergency Funds
Earnings // March 05, 2024

Digital banking/finance platform Dave says its customers are seeking extra cash. More accurately, they’re seeking ExtraCash, the company’s cash advance program, which saw disbursements jump by double digits since last year, Dave said when announcing its quarterly and year-end earnings Tuesday (March 5). The company’s most recent quarter...

FinTechs’ Latest Profitability Challenge Is Finding Business Models Beyond Interchange
Digital Banking // May 12, 2023

FinTechs are facing an existential crisis now that the age of easy access to capital is over. Investors — running the gamut from private venture capital firms to Wall Street activist investors and retail masses — are demanding to see profits. Sustainable black ink on...

Interviews & Exclusives
Dave CEO: Cash Flow-Based Underwriting Critical to Helping Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer

June 05, 2024
It’s been quite a year so far for FinTechs in general and neobanks in particular. However, Jason Wilk, CEO of digital banking app Dave, doesn’t view the volatility rocking the FinTech sector in the wake of the Synapse bankruptcy as a long-lived seismic shift. “I think it’s a one off,” he told Karen Webster, “with […]

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Dave’s ExtraCash Jumps 29% as Consumers Seek Emergency Funds

March 05, 2024
Digital banking/finance platform Dave says its customers are seeking extra cash. More accurately, they’re seeking ExtraCash, the company’s cash advance program, which saw disbursements jump by double digits since last year, Dave said when announcing its quarterly and year-end earnings Tuesday (March 5). The company’s most recent quarter — in which it also reached profitability — showed Dave […]