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Personal Finance
Plaid Raised $425 Million After Visa Deal Falls Through
If you've used any number of financial apps over the past few years, there's a strong chance that you've encountered the name Plaid. The firm's API allows applications to securely connect to users' banking accounts and retrieve read-only data, enabling aggregation tools among others. This technology has allowed Plaid to grow into one of the largest and most notable FinTechs — and has now garnered them an investment mega-round. Today,...
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2021 Debt.com Survey Highlights Pandemic-Era Consumer Credit Card Spending Habits
As the United States continues to work towards a post-pandemic economy, Debt.com has released a new survey looking at how the event has impacted the way consumers utilize their credit cards. First, 90% of those surveyed used credit cards compared to only 10% who didn't. Of those who do, 42% expect that they'll continue to observe the cutbacks they've made to their credit card spending during the pandemic. However, one-third...
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SoFi to Launch IPO Investing Feature for Customers
For many years, while everyday investors may have heard about upcoming initial public offerings (IPOs), buying shares at the original asking price was a right reserved for much larger investors. This reality has remained even as the popularity of retail investment apps has risen. Well, at long last, it seems this could be changing as SoFi recently announced that customers will be able to request shares/units for upcoming IPOs using...
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HighRadius Announces $300 Million Funding Round
When it comes to FinTech, some of the most well-known companies are those that consumers interact with on a regular basis. These include the likes of Square, PayPal, SoFi, Robinhood, etc. However, it's often the startups that operate "behind-the-scenes" — such as Plaid, Stripe, and others — that actually attract the largest investments. Case in point: HighRadius, which offers AI-powered Order-to-Cash and Treasury Management software, has just closed a mega...
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Money at 30: Claritus Review
As someone who reviews a lot of apps and services, I end up keeping my money in a lot of different places. Conveniently, this also means that I get to put several aggregation tools to the test. While this has led me to more well-known services such as Mint and Personal Capital, I recently came across another tool called Claritus — which is apparently still in beta. Having spent the...
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PayPal Introduces "Checkout with Crypto" Option
Over the past few months, cryptocurrencies have seen tremendous growth not only in terms of price but also in mainstream acceptance. The latest example of this comes from PayPal, which just announced the rollout of their Checkout with Crypto feature. With Checkout with Crypto, buyers will have the option to pay for their purchases using four currently-supported assets: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash. Notably, they will only be able...
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