High-flying FinTech Robinhood has scrubbed its plans to launch a stock trading app in the U.K. Just a couple weeks ago, the Menlo Park, California-based company announced that it had raised a total of $600 million in venture funding, which put the FinTech’s valuation at...
Investment and financial management apps showed stability through the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Personal Finance apps shows. The Top Five Not budging from their previous chart positions, the Top Five Personal Finance apps for the month of...
Personal finance apps – for budgeting, investing or just squirreling money away – fulfill a core tenet of digital transformation in finance: that machines can help us do more with our money. It’s a powerful value prop, and in the February 2020 PYMNTS Provider Rankings...
In an effort to lure talented engineers its way, Goldman Sachs has rolled out a new program in which it will pay engineers to develop new finance apps. According to a report in Reuters, Goldman Sachs is looking to hire engineers to join a digital...
September 12, 2017
Innovation happens when you least expect it. As they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Those we call “innovators” are simply the ones who endeavor to solve the problems in front of them by any means necessary. Only later do others look at them and call them “innovators.” Like artists, they are often misunderstood […]
July 23, 2020
Samsung Electronics America Inc. has announced that U.S. consumers can sign up for its mobile money management platform starting on Thursday (July 23). Tagged Samsung Money by SoFi, the platform was launched in partnership with Social Finance Inc., the San Francisco-based online personal finance company, and Mastercard Inc., the global financial services corporation headquartered in New […]
July 21, 2020
High-flying FinTech Robinhood has scrubbed its plans to launch a stock trading app in the U.K. Just a couple weeks ago, the Menlo Park, California-based company announced that it had...
April 03, 2019
In an effort to lure talented engineers its way, Goldman Sachs has rolled out a new program in which it will pay engineers to develop new finance apps. According to...
May 28, 2018
A few months after its launch, Yahoo announced it is shutting down Tanda for Yahoo Finance, an app that allowed small groups of people to save money together for short-term...