Tala has secured a $150 million debt facility to expand what it calls “the world’s most accessible financial services.” The company will use the proceeds from the facility to support its growing business in Mexico, enhance its lending capabilities and continue delivering data-enabled financial infrastructure,...
Robinhood has added a prediction markets hub to its app, allowing users to trade on the outcomes of events. The first contracts, which started rolling out Monday (March 17), cover what the upper bound of the target Fed funds rate will be in May and...
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...
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...
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...
April 01, 2025
The standalone Zelle app can no longer be used for sending or receiving money, and users are being invited to enroll to use the peer-to-peer payment method through a participating bank or credit union’s app. Zelle had announced in an Oct. 31 blog post that it would make this change, and it completed the move […]
March 19, 2025
Tala has secured a $150 million debt facility to expand what it calls “the world’s most accessible financial services.” The company will use the proceeds from the facility to support...
March 17, 2025
Robinhood has added a prediction markets hub to its app, allowing users to trade on the outcomes of events. The first contracts, which started rolling out Monday (March 17), cover...
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...
