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Fioney aims to help guide you to make the best decisions when it comes to the ever changing worlds of personal and small business finance.
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Banking-as-a-Service Platform Unit Raises $100 Million

Put another tally mark on FinTech "megadeal" board for 2022. This week, Unit announced that it had closed a $100 million round. The Series C was led by Insight Partners. Existing investors such as Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures, and Flourish Ventures also participated along with newcomers Moving Capital and Stepstone. Notably, the round valued the company at $1.2 billion, earning it "unicorn" status. To date, Unit has now raised a...
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Robinhood Announces Non-Custodial Web3 Crypto Wallet

After finally rolling out a crypto wallets feature in their trading app and recently listing four additional assets, Robinhood plans to double down on cryptocurrency once again. In a blog post, the company announced that it was developing a non-custodial, web3 wallet. Once launched, this wallet will give users greater total control of their crypto as well as provide access to other decentralized web features. Most notably, while this offering...
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Zilch Launches Its "BNPL 2.0" Platform in the United States Market

The "buy now, pay later" scene has a new entrant. This week, Zilch announced its arrival in the United States. According to the company, the app launched with 150,000 pre-registered customers and comes after the service gained two million U.K customers since its debut there 18 months ago. Elsewhere, Zilch has raised $400 million in debt and equity from Goldman Sachs among others and the company is valued at more...
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Greenlight Opens Waitlist for New Greenlight Family Cash Mastercard

In recent years, many parents have come to realize that there are now several ways to teach their children about money. From old-school lessons about cash and "the value of a dollar" to more modern methods such as apps and debit cards, children have a variety of tools for saving and spending their own money. Now, one family-focused digital banking platform is taking things one step further by introducing a...
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Survey: 38% of Investors Pulled Money From the Market Over Past Year

When it comes to the economy, the stock market, and other financial matters, there's certainly been no shortage of news lately. And while some of these stories may not directly impact everyday Americans, they can still lead to a reaction from investors and others keeping a closer eye on such matters. Recently, MagnifyMoney commissioned a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers to ask how current affairs had influenced their...
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Crypto-Backed Card Wirex Celebrates Milestone in U.S. Registrations

It looks as though Wirex is taking a victory lap after a successful entry into the United States market. Today, the platform announced that 150,000 people have registered for the crypto app since it launched in the U.S. a mere six weeks ago. This figure adds to the more than 5 million users Wirex already has across Europe and Asia. Wirex's U.S. app allows users to trade and hold 37...

Tips and Tools for Rebuilding Your Credit

Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes can be forgiven but, in other cases, the repercussions of these missteps can be long-lasting. Sadly, when it comes to credit, sometimes small mess-ups can mean years of poor scores — but it doesn't have to last forever. If you've made some credit mistakes in your past and are looking to improve your scores ahead of buying a home, vehicle, etc., there are a...
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Imprint Launches Latest Rewards Card: The Vice Wine Rewards Visa

The FinTech Imprint is at it again, announcing the launch of its latest co-branded rewards card — this time collaborating with The Vice Wine. With The Vice Wine Rewards Visa, customers can earn 3% back on purchases made at TheViceWine.com. Additionally, all other purchases made using the card will earn 1% back. Then, earned rewards can be redeemed on purchases from The Vice Wine, with no minimum redemption requirement. Currently,...
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2025 SoFi Checking and Savings Review

 Ever since I started taking an interest in the FinTech sector, one company whose name I’ve seen pop up over and over again is SoFi. That was later sent into overdrive as the company has not only become a household name thanks to its stadium naming rights deal but also because of the company’s continued product expansions. The most interesting development in my mind is SoFi’s acquisition of Golden Pacific...
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Best Western Debuts Two New Rewards Credit Cards

After pausing applications for their previous rewards card, the hotel chain Best Western has unveiled a new pair of rewards credit cards with a new issuer. About the Best Western cards: Best Western is partnering with First Bank & Trust and Mercury Financial to introduce two new co-branded credit cards. First up is the no-annual-fee Best Western Rewards Visa Signature Card. With this card, customers can 4x points on Best...
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Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card Launches Travel Contest

Chase and Marriott Bonoy have unveiled a special contest while continuing to offer its best-ever welcome bonus. About the welcome bonus and Bold Chat Court Contest: Marriott Bonvoy and Chase have launched a special opportunity called the Bold Chat Court contest. As part of this contest, 10 lucky travelers will be awarded 500,000 Marriott Bonvoy points (for a total of 5 million) as well as $5,000. For this contest, the...
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Bilt Adds 2 New Transfer Partners Including First 3:2 Transfer Rate

Bilt is once again expanding its travel transfer rewards program — and is even breaking the mold with one new partner. About the new additions to Bilt: This week, Bilt launched partnerships with two more travel brands: TAP Air Portugal and Accor. As a result, Bilt members will now be able to transfer their points to Miles&Go and ALL Reward, respectively. In total, Bilt now has 18 transfer partners including 13...
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PayPal Debit Card Review: Earn Stackable 5% Cash Back

In recent weeks, PayPal debuted an updated debit card product (perhaps you've seen the incessant Will Ferrell commercials for it during football games?). With the launch of this card, the company known for online payments is encouraging customers to pay with them anywhere. To encourage such behavior, the debit card allows cardholders to earn 5% cashback — although, as you can imagine, there are some important restrictions on that. So,...