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Mobile Banking Firm Chime Gets $14.5B Valuation With New Funding

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Mobile banking upstart Chime has completed funding that has provided the firm with a $14.5 Chime, which CEO Chris Britt co-founded in 2013, provides clients mobile banking accounts without charges, debit cards and automated teller machine (ATM) access. billion valuation, CNBC reported.

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Chime CEO Predicts Mobile Banking Surge Is Here To Stay

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Chime was founded in 2013 as a challenger bank, focusing on the demographic of Americans earning between $30,000 and $75,000 per year, although this demographic has widened in the pandemic. Paychecks can be accessed a few days early, too, he added. People, he said, have “a lot of anxiety” about their money. billion.

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N26 Rolls Out US Mobile Banking

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is launching its banking app in the United States. subsidiary of N26 GmbH, which was described in an announcement as one of the fastest growing mobile banks in Europe. Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal started N26 in 2013. Through a staged rollout in which 100,000 customers on the U.S. The company is a U.S.

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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

Fintech News

billion global payments Tongdun Technology 2 billion intelligent risk management BITMAIN Technologies Valuation: $12 billion BITMAIN, founded in 2013, produces digital currency mining servers under the ANTMINER brand. It also runs Asetku, an online wealth management service, and Neobank, a mobile banking service backed by Bank Neo Commerce.

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The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Startups Of 2018

CB Insights

The 2018 Fintech 250 have raised approximately $53B in aggregate funding across 947 deals since 2013, and includes startups at different investment stages of development, from early-stage (seed/Series A) companies to well-funded unicorns. One97 Communications , the parent company of India-based Paytm Payments Bank, raised a record $1.4B

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MoneyLion Taps TransUnion to Personalize Offerings

Finovate

Mobile banking platform MoneyLion will be adding personalized touches to its consumer-focused products and services thanks to a partnership with TransUnion. Leveraging TransUnion’s data will help MoneyLion deliver more personalized and relevant financial offers, and ultimately improve the user experience.

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Current Account Switch Services Surpasses 10 Million Switches as UK Becomes More Money-Savvy

The Fintech Times

It’s designed to be simple and stress-free, and the full switch option is backed by the ‘ Current Account Switch Guarantee ‘ Between October and December 2023, CASS facilitated 433,701 switches, the highest quarterly total recorded since it was launched in 2013.