Category: Personal Finance
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Personal Finance
Survey Asks What Average American Considers "Life-Changing" Money
by Fioney Staff
Have you ever stopped to ponder how much money it would take to significantly change your life? This could mean the amount of cash it would take to get out of debt, have an emergency fund, or perhaps make a down payment on a home. Although for most people winning the lottery isn’t required for such a transformation to occur, the sum that the average adult quoted as their “magic...
Personal Finance
Apple, Goldman Sachs Reportedly Planning Credit Card with iPhone Features
by Fioney Staff
Depending on who you ask, rewards credit cards are either a hackable finance tool or an all too tempting trap. Nevertheless several companies have taken a shot at entering the crowded market to varying levels of success. Now comes word that two major companies could be coming out with a new card that offers a FinTech twist. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple and Goldman Sachs...
Personal Finance
SoFi Introduces SoFi Invest for Active and Automated Trading
by Fioney Staff
When it comes to FinTech firms, expansion is the name of the game. Often times this means diversifying your offerings in a logical way in order to gain customers and bring them into your ecosystem. That’s exactly what SoFi is aiming to do, launching new brokerage account options for either active or automated investing. According to Barron’s, SoFi has introduced SoFi Invest, allowing users to buy and sell stocks and...
Personal Finance
Money at 30: My Big Budgeting Confession
by Kyle Burbank
Being a personal finance writer/nerd, I often end up talking about a number of the finance fundamentals, such as budgeting. In the past I’ve reviewed tools like Mint, talked about the old-school envelopes method, and many other topics that revolve around the idea of building a budget and sticking to it. That’s why today I thought it was time to reveal something shocking. The truth is that my wife and...
Personal Finance
Bankrate Study Finds Credit Card Debt Rising, Emergency Funds Falling
by Fioney Staff
We’ve often heard frightening statistics about how few adults could cover an unexpected expense of only a few hundred dollars. Additionally the amount of credit card debt Americans hold has topped $1 trillion in recent years. Now a new survey by Bankrate has some more bad news: the percentage of those whose debt outweigh their savings is on the rise. In a survey conducted earlier this year, Bankrate found that...
Personal Finance
Plans for a Federal FinTech "Sandbox" Draw Controversy
by Fioney Staff
With the rise of FinTechs over that past decade or so, one of the big questions that has plagued regulators is how to protect consumers from these new financial products without stifling progress. One proposed solution that’s been adopted both abroad and at home is the concept of a “sandbox” that allows approved companies to try new ideas without running into further regulatory restraints. As Bloomberg Businessweek reports, some state...
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Chase Announces JPM Coin Digital Token
by Fioney Staff
One of the goals of cryptocurrencies is to achieve decentralization and free consumers from relying on banks. Yet, this week, one of the top banks in the U.S. revealed that it’s backing its own digital currency — JP Morgan Chase has announced the creation of JPM Coin. As CNBC reports, the coin was created to enable instant transaction settlements between clients. According to the network, trials of JPM Coin are...