Personal finance

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Quirk raises £300k for personality-based money management app

Quirk, a personal finance app that helps young professionals manage their money according to their personality, has raised £300,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital and angel investors.

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Aus budgeting app Frollo brings Open banking to Android

Leading Australian fintech company, Frollo, launches Open Banking on Android with their new budgeting app.

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Fidelity's eMoney Advisor rolls out first mobile app

eMoney Advisor (eMoney), a leading provider of technology solutions and services that help people talk about money, today announced the launch and general availability of Incentive, a client-led financial planning and wellness application.

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Fidelity's eMoney rolls out financial planning and wellness app

eMoney Advisor (eMoney), a leading provider of technology solutions and services that help people talk about money, today announced the launch and general availability of Incentive, a client-led financial planning and wellness application.

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BNL goes live with Tink account aggregation software

Italian bank BNL, part of the international group BNP Paribas, has launched a multi-banking service with leading open banking platform Tink.

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TrueLayer and sync. extend collaboration to German, Lithuanian banks

TrueLayer, the leading technology company building financial infrastructure that’s open to everyone, today announced the extension of its partnership with digital smart open banking app sync. extending its European coverage to include Germany and Lithuania.

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Aon to implement Moneyhub financial wellbeing app

Moneyhub today announces that it is collaborating with Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, to create its financial wellbeing app ‘Well One Money,’ which helps employers support employee financial wellbeing.

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Budgeting apps can encourage users to overspend rather than save

Research conducted by Think Forward Initiative and Eller College of Management, University of Arizona has found that contrary to popular belief, budgeting apps have been shown to have the opposite result, and in reality drive overspending.

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CES 2021: Stripe and Plaid reveal Covid-19 ‘pressed fast forward’ on digital payments acceptance

As Andrew B. Morris from The Fintech Agenda, LLC highlights at CES 2021, the dark clouds of Covid-19 had a silver lining for the fintech industry. Unicorns Stripe and Plaid supported the global shift to a contactless economy, helping businesses deliver products and services to consumers who had collectively formed new daily habits for everything. Ginger Baker and Erika Wool explain what's next for the payments giants.

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Fintech savvy Brits crave more tech to manage their money

Digitally savvy Brits are the biggest users of tech in Europe, yet they crave more digital means of managing their money, a major new report from investment platform eToro and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) reveals.

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2020 finances dragged down by the three Cs: Christmas, Covid and Credit

At the end of what has been one of the most challenging years to date, national research has found that the pandemic has had a devastating effect on Britain's finances, with 19% confessing that they are in their worst financial position ever. A further 45% do not have a budget in place for their festive shopping this year, despite Brits spending £285 each on Christmas presents.

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Curve and Plaid join forces

Money problems for many people often come down to a fundamental lack of understanding.

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Tony Hawk joins $65m funding round for social investing app Public

Commission-free social investing app Public has closed a $65 million Series C funding round led by Accel and joined by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

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Credit building startup Self raises $40m

Self Financial, a fintech startup promising to help Americans build their credit while also saving money, has raised $40 million in a Series D funding round led by Meritech Capital.

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Cleo raises $44m for money management bot

After closing a $44 million funding round, British AI-based personal finance chatbot Cleo is turning the tables on its users and asking them how it should spend its money.

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EverUp selects Modulr for payments platform

The prize-linked savings app EverUp has chosen the Payments as a Service FinTech Modulr to power its payments infrastructure, including access to Faster Payments.

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Revolut unveils Pockets money management feature

Revolut has today announced the launch of Pockets, a new feature which enables all customers to easily stay on top of their spending and makes organising rent, bills and subscriptions effortless.

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Kenya central bank governor: ‘Regulators should be the most innovative people of all’

In a virtual fireside discussion during Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya argued that regulators must use their convening power to bring people and innovators together, this would change the dynamic between innovators and the regulators themselves to improve the journey toward digital transformation.

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Pocket money app gohenry raises $40m for US push

UK-based kids' money management app gohenry has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Edison Partners and joined by Citi Ventures.