San Francisco-based Affirm, which offers ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) financing for consumer purchases, announced that it will acquire Returnly, a returns platform that allows customers to get instant store credit even before a return is processed.
Read MoreVenmo, the popular peer-to-peer payments app owned by PayPal that counts 70M users, today announced that users can buy, hold and, sell cryptocurrency directly within the Venmo app.
Read MoreSallie Mae, which provides credit-based private student loan products to international and DACA students who apply with an eligible U.S. citizen or permanent resident co-signer, is working with fintech MPOWER Financing to deliver loans to “high promise” international students across 350 universities and colleges in cases where a co-signer is not available.
Read MorePayments giant Mastercard plans to acquire Ekata, a 2-year-old Seattle based company that focuses on APIs and SaaS digital-identity solutions that help more than 2,000 businesses and partners combat cyberfraud.
Read MoreRep. Maxine Waters (D-California), who is chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, raised concerns over banking charters for fintech and crypto companies at a subcommittee hearing on the topic this week.
Read MoreMarcus by Goldman Sachs, which likens itself to a fintech startup operating inside a large bank, is these days looking more like a legacy bank unit facing a flight of talent – the latest being head of product Sonali Divilek.
Read MoreBanks like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo are reporting blockbuster profits today, but their earnings reports are being overshadowed by a milestone moment for the crypto industry as Coinbase – the first major cryptocurrency company in the U.S. to go public – began trading on the Nasdaq.
Read MoreAs digital business payments surge during the pandemic, Citibank is helping its clients gain more visibility into payment paths, reminiscent of the process to track shipments of physical goods.
Read MoreHill Harper, an actor who plays Dr. Marcus Andrews on the ABC medical show The Good Doctor, is launching an investing and payments app geared toward minority communities, particularly Black and Latinx consumers.
Read MoreMastercard is teaming up with Sweden-based fintech Doconomy on the launch of the Mastercard Carbon Calculator, a feature which banks can embed into their apps.
Read MoreWalmart has tapped Citi executive Julia Unger as its vice president of financial services. Unger spent more than 18 years at Citi, most recently as head of global cards and unsecured lending.
Read MorePowerPay, a King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based home improvement financing fintech has hit a $1B milestone in loans originated on its platform as it eyes additional products and services, including insurance and other types of lending products.
Read MoreWealth management tech giant Envestnet has acquired Harvest Savings & Wealth Technologies, a 7-year-old Bay Area-based fintech that offers savings and wealth solutions for banks and wealth management firms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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