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FinTech News

PayPal Acquires Deal-Finding App Honey

by Fioney Staff
Every day millions of users turn to PayPal to send money and make purchases. Now the FinTech is making a rather sizeable buy of its own. Last week the company announced that it would be acquiring Honey. For their purchase of Honey (or Honey Science Corporation as their formally known), PayPal will pay a whopping $4 billion. This amounts to the companies largest acquisition ever according to TechCrunch. Started as...
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FinTech News

Robinhood Announces Launch in the United Kingdom

by Fioney Staff
With the brokerage landscape here at home rapidly evolving, it makes a lot of sense that Robinhood would want to start looking overseas for future growth.
Benzinga Global FinTech Awards
FinTech News

Benzinga Announces Listmakers Ahead of Global FinTech Awards

by Fioney Staff
This week Benzinga will host their fifth annual Benzinga Global FinTech Awards in New York City. Ahead of that event, the financial media platform has announced a list of 150 "carefully vetted and renowned" companies and executives in various categories.  From the list, 10 overall winners will be unveiled at the annual awards ceremony. This year's list is comprised of 150 nominees is 22 different categories. These categories include: Best...
Wirex Travel Visa card
FinTech News

Wirex Announces Multi-Currency Visa Travelcard with "Cryptoback" Perk

by Fioney Staff
Ready for the next generation of payments? The currencies platform Wirex says it has arrived. At this week's Singapore FinTech Festival, the company unveiled its new Wirex Visa Travelcard. The card will launch in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, which they note has an $800 billion payments industry. Wirex says that Visa Travelcard customers will be able to take advantage of the best exchange rates on fiat and crypto currencies. Among...
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FinTech News

Number of U.S. Bank Branches Declining Overall, But Not Everywhere

by Fioney Staff
Between the increasing functionality of mobile banking apps and the onslaught of FinTech challenger banks entering the space, it should be no surprise that the number of brick and mortar bank branch locations in the United States has declined significantly in the past several years. What may be surprising, however, is that this isn't the case for some aress. As Quartz reports, there are some Americans communities that are bucking...
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FinTech News

Deserve Announces $50 Million Round Led by Goldman Sachs

by Fioney Staff
Another FinTech (or FinTech-adjacent) firm has just announced a big fundraising round. As TechCrunch reports Goldman Sachs is leading a $50 million Series C for Deserve. Also joining the round are previous investors Sallie Mae, Aspect Ventures, Mission Holdings, Pelion Venture Partners, and Accel. Although Deserve's co-founder and CEO Kalpesh Kapadia stated that this latest round would lead the company to profitability, he declined to disclose what valuation the round...
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FinTech News

Venmo Announces Rewards Program for Debit Cardholders

by Fioney Staff
In just the past couple of years, the number of FinTechs offering their own debit card products has exploded. Thus it only makes sense that these companies would want to find new and creative ways to incentivize use of these various cards. That seems to be the playbook popular peer-to-peer payments app Venmo is following, announcing the rollout of  Venmo Rewards for Venmo Card users. With Venmo Rewards, cardholders will...
Credit Karma savings app
FinTech News

Credit Karma Debuts High-Yield Savings Product

by Fioney Staff
If you've ever wanted to check your credit score for free online, there's a great chance you've encountered Credit Karma. Started in 2007, the site has not only become a leader in the space but has also grown into one of the largest FinTech operations in the U.S. with a valuation of more than $4 billion. Now the company is trying something new, rolling out a high-yield savings product to...
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2025 SoFi Checking and Savings Review

by Kyle Burbank
 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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Financial

A Look at How Rakuten (Ebates) Works in 2026

by Kyle Burbank
Since taking an interest in personal finance, one site I’ve come across again and again is Rakuten, formerly Ebates. If you’re still unfamiliar, Rakuten is a cashback site — and is the largest of its kind by far, boasting deals from over 3,500 retailers. Its popularity has endured even with the odd Rakuten re-branding and the platform remains one of my most-used money-saving tools. Since joining Rakuten / Ebates some...
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Credit Card News

Best Western Debuts Two New Rewards Credit Cards

by Kyle Burbank
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...
Marriott Bonvoy card and a woman on vacation
Credit Card News

Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card Launches Travel Contest

by Kyle Burbank
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...
Bilt and All Reward logos
Credit Card News

Bilt Adds 2 New Transfer Partners Including First 3:2 Transfer Rate

by Kyle Burbank
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...