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BMO revealed this week it has launched personal financial management tools for its clients. The digital resource, called the Real Financial Progress Hub, will offer personal finance advice, tools, and resources to help customers reach their financial goals. “For the first time, our customers can explore any financial goal and even multiple goals at once – Read more…
While many in the fintech industry are still processing Mint’s departure from the fintech scene, there appears to be more shakeup in the PFM world this morning. Budgeting service and social personal finance app Status Money has notified its users that it is shutting down. “As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with Read more…
FinovateEurope’s Alumni Alley is a great way for our pioneering alums to show that, more than a decade later, they are still driving fintech innovation. Check out our Finovate Alumni Alley hub for more information on how to get involved. To celebrate the launch of this new opportunity, we’re going to highlight alums that demoed Read more…
This week’s Finovate Global will take a look at some news from a pair of European alums that are expanding into new markets and collaborating with fellow fintechs. First up is Finland’s ReceiptHero, which announced this week that it has launched operations in Switzerland. The launch is part of a multi-party collaboration with Noerdkantine – Read more…
Eighteen months after the U.S. Justice Department blocked Visa’s attempt to acquire Plaid, the company is back at the counter with a similarly ambitious acquisition: the purchase of European open banking platform Tink for $2.1. billion (€ 1.8 billion). “Visa is committed to doing all we can to foster innovation and empower consumers in support Read more…
Courtesy of an investment round led by Accel Partners, subscription management specialist turned personal finance company Truebill has secured $45 million in new funding. The Series D round – which featured participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cota Capital, and Eldridge Industries – takes the six-year old company’s total financing to $85 million. “With this new Read more…
On the day that Goldman Sachs announced that its digital banking solution Marcus would now feature a suite of PFM tools, FinovateFall Digital attendees were busy listening to the architect of this new feature – Adam Dell, Head of Product at Marcus – making the case for, among other things, the union of digital banking Read more…
Further proving that every company is a fintech company, Plaid has formed a partnership with Microsoft. Plaid will integrate with Microsoft Excel to help give the budget spreadsheet a major upgrade. Launching under the guise of Money in Excel, the new tool will use Plaid to import users’ financial information, bringing an automated approach to Read more…
Everyone, including fintechs, gets by with a little help from their friends. That must be what digital banking solutions provider Kony and financial data expert MX were thinking when they joined forces this week. Under the agreement, Kony will leverage MX’s PFM expertise to bolster Kony DBX, its digital banking experience product. Specifically, Kony will Read more…
London-based money management app Emma is the latest company to partner with global data aggregator Salt Edge. The integration will enable Emma users to securely connect their accounts – whether for debit, credit, e-wallet, savings, mortgage, cryptocurrency, or insurance – from banks throughout the U.K. “We started Emma on a mission to help millions of Read more…
Danish fintech Lunar Way has partnered with Swedish fintech Tink to use the latter’s API platform to provide customers with an overview of their finances and initiate payments through the Lunar Way app, reports Henry Vilar of Fintech Futures (Finovate’s sister publication). At the end of last year, Lunar received an account information service provider Read more…
Best of Show winner Tink has forged a partnership with BNP Paribas Fortis that will integrate its aggregation, PFM, and payment initiation technology into the Belgian bank’s mobile banking applications. The integration will enable the aggregation of all financial data typically available on mobile banking apps and pave the way for new offerings for customers Read more…