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Wells Fargo, JPMorgan draw ire over stimulus payment release date
The banks are sticking with a March 17 disbursement date, even though the IRS has released at least some of the payments Friday. Fintechs Current and Chime are trumpeting their success at getting the money in users' hands.
By Dan Ennis • March 15, 2021 -
Stripe's new $95B valuation makes it Silicon Valley's most valuable startup
The payments processing company's new valuation is based on raising $600 million in new capital that it plans to use for further expansion in Europe.
By Lynne Marek • March 15, 2021 -
Trendline
Data-driven disruption
More often than not, an innovator may see disruption as an enhancement to be embraced. And sometimes the innovators are the establishment.
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JPMorgan to pull Chase Pay from merchant apps, sites March 31
The bank announced in 2019 it would shut down the platform's stand-alone app. Merchant acceptance — about 1% in 2019 — has paled in comparison to competitor Apple Pay's 40%.
By Robert Freedman • March 10, 2021 -
Plaid payroll product streamlines income verification
Plaid Income is the second product the company has launched since the termination of a proposed $5.3 billion tie-up with Visa, signaling the scrapped deal is not slowing the expansion of the fintech's suite.
By Anna Hrushka • March 8, 2021 -
Column
Square becomes more reflective of Jack Dorsey the person with Tidal buy
The CEO's investment in the music streaming service may not be an obvious fit in payments, but jibes with Dorsey's decentralization philosophy as he becomes more famous than his (other) company.
By Dan Ennis • March 5, 2021 -
Inside Marqeta's plans to grow its 'card-as-a-service' offering
The card issuer and processor is differentiating through a flexible, API-based platform that helps clients launch card offerings in months instead of years.
By Suman Bhattacharyya • March 3, 2021 -
Column
Goldman crypto trading desk relaunch portends softer industry stance on Bitcoin
The bank follows BNY Mellon and JPMorgan in greater crypto acceptance, in a reversal from a May report in which Goldman called Bitcoin an "unsuitable investment." Citi this week said the currency is at a "tipping point."
By Dan Ennis • March 3, 2021 -
Square launches long-awaited industrial bank
The FDIC gave the fintech conditional approval for an ILC charter nearly a year ago. Now the company can originate small-business loans rather than doing so through its previous partner, Celtic Bank.
By Dan Ennis • March 2, 2021 -
Deep Dive
Can banks win in the booming buy-now-pay-later space?
While BNPL represents a relatively small niche of the payments ecosystem, banks should take note of what the growth of that silo says about the next generation of consumers, one consultant said.
By Anna Hrushka • March 2, 2021 -
Fed says 'operational error' caused payment system outage
"An automated data center maintenance process ... was inadvertently triggered during business hours," a Fed spokeswoman specified Thursday. "This was human error," she told The Wall Street Journal.
By Anna Hrushka • Updated Feb. 26, 2021 -
Tether, crypto exchange Bitfinex to pay $18.5M to settle NY probe
Tether will give officials quarterly reports on its reserves and end trading with the state's residents in an agreement that ends a two-year investigation into allegations it hid the loss of $850 million in client and corporate money.
By Dan Ennis • Feb. 24, 2021 -
BNY Mellon commits to holding, transferring and issuing crypto
The New York-based bank said Thursday it is developing a client-facing prototype for a multi-asset digital custody and administration platform set to roll out this year.
By Dan Ennis • Feb. 11, 2021 -
Aggregator MX to expand reach of 'money experiences' as it angles toward IPO
The company has quadrupled its value in the past year in a field that, amid the Visa-Plaid deal's disintegration, has room for "co-opetition," one analyst said, as some banks use multiple data aggregators.
By Suman Bhattacharyya • Jan. 20, 2021 -
Plaid sees 'opportunity' after $5.3B Visa deal ends
The data aggregator's biggest priority now is getting 75% of its traffic dedicated to application programming interfaces by the end of 2021 — a prospect John Pitts, Plaid's head of policy, calls an "immense challenge."
By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 19, 2021 -
Visa terminates $5.3B acquisition of Plaid after DOJ antitrust suit
The abandonment of the deal won't keep Visa from pursuing partnerships with Plaid or other fintechs, CEO Al Kelly said Tuesday during a call with analysts.
By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 13, 2021 -
Banks can use stablecoins, blockchains for payments, OCC says
The move follows a letter the agency issued in July clarifying national banks are allowed to provide cryptocurrency custody services, and hold unique cryptographic "keys" associated with cryptocurrency on behalf of customers.
By Anna Hrushka • Jan. 5, 2021 -
SEC sues Ripple, top execs over sale of XRP cryptocurrency
Ripple executives accused the regulator of "picking virtual currency winners and losers." XRP lost 60% of its value in the week after the suit, which one Twitter user called a "kill shot."
By Anna Hrushka • Updated March 5, 2021 -
Crypto firm Paxos gets OCC's conditional approval for trust charter
In contrast to Anchorage and Protego Trust Co., which are converting their state trust charters to national ones, Paxos will maintain its New York state charter and additionally seek a federal one.
By Anna Hrushka • Updated April 27, 2021 -
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Top ways financial institutions are improving the customer experience
In this time of worry and uncertainty, great customer service is more important than ever.
Dec. 14, 2020 -
Bank of America flags 640K accounts on suspected unemployment benefits fraud
The figure includes 76,000 cards — upon which the bank issues the benefits under contract with the state of California — that were sent to nonadjacent states or filed in the names of infants, children and centenarians.
By Dan Ennis • Dec. 10, 2020 -
Dive Awards
The Banking Dive Awards for 2020
The government turned to banks and fintechs to help facilitate federal relief amid the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the executives and companies whose leadership stood out during the global crisis.
By Banking Dive Team • Dec. 9, 2020 -
Dive Awards
Deal of the Year: American Express buys Kabbage
The fintech was growing beyond lending. The payment network was building beyond cards. Together, they saw the chance to expand outside of themselves.
By Dan Ennis • Dec. 9, 2020 -
Capital One halts buy-now-pay-later credit card transactions
The move stands in contrast to fellow credit-card issuers Citi and JPMorgan Chase, which last year launched fixed-payoff options. PayPal and Ally Financial this year announced they were rolling out installment loans.
By Dan Ennis • Dec. 7, 2020 -
Teen-aimed banking app Step gets celebrity boost
The platform said it raised $50 million in a Series B funding round that included investment from singer Justin Timberlake, music group The Chainsmokers and retired athlete Eli Manning.
By Anna Hrushka • Dec. 3, 2020 -
Facebook-led digital currency, renamed Diem, could launch in January
"We like the connotation of it kind of being a new day for the project," said the group's CEO, Stuart Levey, referring to the moniker's use of the Latin word for "day."
By Anna Hrushka • Updated Dec. 1, 2020