Category: Personal Finance
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Personal Finance
Uphold Introduces Stablecoin Center, Adds Support for Tether and More
by Fioney Staff
As the concept of cryptocurrencies has crept into the mainstream, it's come with concerns from outsiders. In addition to regulators who worry about market manipulation and money laundering, there have also been investors who fret over the severe volatility of such assets. Look no further than the famous Bitcoin run that saw prices skyrocket to nearly $20,000 before crashing back down to Earth. To solve this issue, some have turned...
Personal Finance
SoFi Invest Expands to Hong Kong with Acquisition of 8 Securities
by Fioney Staff
SoFi's big year just got even bigger. This week the company not only announced that it would be bringing its SoFi Invest product to Hong Kong but also that it was acquiring the online brokerage firm 8 Securities in the process. The deal still needs to meet closing conditions but, once it's complete, the current 8 Securities platform will be rebranded with the moniker SoFi Hong Kong while keeping its current...
Personal Finance
Credit Bureaus Currently Offering Weekly Online Report Checks
by Fioney Staff
With the COVID-19 pandemic not only taking a toll on the health of citizens but also on their finances, this week it was announced that Americans will have greater access to their credit reports for at least the next year. From now through April 2021, consumers will be able to obtain their official credit reports from all three major bureaus — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — once per week. Prior...
Personal Finance
Images of Google's Reported Debit Card Project Surface
by Fioney Staff
Over the past several months, a number of FinTechs have debuted their own takes on a debit card product. From Square to Robinhood and SoFi to Long Game, each of these offerings complimented the company's other services, hopefully incentivizing users to come aboard. Now it looks like a much larger corporation is looking to enter the FinTech debit card space: Google. According to TechCrunch, which obtained images of the upcoming...
Personal Finance
Shake Shack to Return Paycheck Protection Program Loan to SBA
by Fioney Staff
Last week when it was announced that the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) had run through its original $349 billion in funding, there was plenty of anger to be found all around. While some were frustrated with Congress for not authorizing additional funding and with the SBA for not providing clearer instructions for banks to follow, others were upset to find that some national chains such as...
Personal Finance
SoFi Set to Acquire Fellow FinTech Galileo
by Fioney Staff
Even in the face of a pandemic, FinTech marches on. Not only have we seen firms reporting new funding rounds during these challenging times but we have also seen some online banking offerings experiencing increased sign-ups. Now there's more good news for the industry as the streak of acquisitions we've seen so far this year has extended by one. Last week, SoFi (short for "Social Finance") announced plans to acquire...
Personal Finance
Study Calculates "Taxpayer ROI" for Every State
by Fioney Staff
Under normal circumstances, today (April 15th) would be Tax Day in the United States of America. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic all but shutting down the economy, this year's filing deadline has been moved to July 15th instead. Still, in the spirit of tax season, the personal finance site WalletHub recently compiled a study on "taxpayer return on investment" — or "taxypayer ROI." Moreover they then ranked each state to...