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ING launches pocket-sized personal financial advisor

ING is to provide customers in Spain and the Netherlands with a 'financial advisor in your pocket' through the launch of a new mobile app dubbed My Money Coach.

01 August 2016

News/Personal finance

Fintech founder calls Aussie banks hyprocrites over Apple Pay complaints

The founder of an Australian robo-advisor has accused the country's banks of hypocrisy over their cries of anti-competitive behaviour from Apple Pay

29 July 2016

Company update/Personal finance

LGIM invests in auto enrolment provider Smart Pension

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has announced an investment and partnership with Smart Pension that will broaden its offering for small schemes that are going through the auto enrolment process.

28 July 2016

News/Personal finance

Standard Chartered launches global video banking push

UK bank Standard Chartered is planning to roll out its video banking service to more than five million users across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

21 July 2016

News/Personal finance

Santander doubles down on fintech fund

Santander has doubled the size of its fintech investment fund, from $100 million to $200 million, in what the bank describes as a sign of commitment to its philosophy of collaborating with startups.

19 July 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Moneyhub joins forces with Unbiased

Unbiased, the site that connects millions to advice, has joined forces with Moneyhub to create a new user experience for people managing their finances.

18 July 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Barclays launches personal finance hub

Barclays has today launched Financial Wings, an online personal finance hub designed to give people the knowledge and confidence to take control of their money and build the skills required to bolster their financial health.

22 June 2016

Company update/Personal finance

ČSOB adopts Meniga PFM

Meniga the European market leader of white-label Personal Finance Management (PFM) and next-generation online banking solutions, today announced Era Poštovní spořitelna as its customer.

02 June 2016

News/Personal finance

SEB and ABN Amro join $10 million round in PFM startup Tink

Sweden's SEB has contributed $4.2 million to a $10 million funding round in local PFM outfit Tink, making it the fifth-largest shareholder in the 10-person startup.

19 May 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Virtual Piggy names John Coyne CEO

Virtual Piggy Inc. (OTC BB: VPIG) announced the appointment of John R. Coyne as Chief Executive Officer, effective April 18, 2016. Coyne, 63, will also serve as Chairman of the Board and a member of Virtual Piggy Inc.'s Board of Directors.

11 May 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Affirm buys PFM app Sweep

Affirm, Inc. today announced that it is acquiring the personal finance management app company Sweep Inc., as a first step in its expansion beyond point-of-sale financing.

27 April 2016

Company update/Personal finance

NerdWallet introduces retirement saving tools

Today, NerdWallet launched two new tools to help Americans manage and maximize their retirement savings.

26 April 2016

News/Personal finance

Ally Financial targets shopaholics with 'Splurge Alert' app

Ally Financial is piloting an app called 'Splurge Alert' that uses geolocation technology to identify when users are near to stores that they overspend in and alerts friends who can intervene.

21 April 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Clink adds group savings feature to investment app

Clink, a no-fee investment and savings app, today announces group savings, a new feature that turns passive saving among family and friends into a routine practice.

19 April 2016

Company update/Personal finance

TD Bank launches MySpend app

TD Bank Group (TD) today announced it has begun its roll-out of TD MySpend, a new real-time money management app – a first in Canadian digital banking.

15 April 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Fincheck allows South Africans to instantly compare financial products

South Africans can now instantly compare 26 financial products from 106 financial institutions to be able to save money and to chose the products which best suits their needs.

14 April 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Malauzai partners with Geezeo

Malauzai Software today announced a partnership with Geezeo, a leading provider of online Personal Financial Management (PFM) solutions.

12 April 2016

Company update/Personal finance

MX signs multi-year data aggregation deal with USAA

MX Technologies announced today that it signed a multi-year deal to provide data aggregation capabilities to USAA, allowing the financial services company to offer additional money management services to its members in the U.S. military community.

15 March 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Prosper rebrands BillGuard app

Prosper Marketplace, which operates a leading online marketplace that connects borrowers and investors, today announced its first mobile app, Prosper Daily.

10 March 2016

Company update/Personal finance

Fintech startup The Lifehouse looks for beta testers

Former Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management CEO Neil Darke is making it his mission to help millennials, rocked by financial uncertainty (student loans, pensions, house prices), to find the financial path to the life they truly want by launching a fintech start-up called The Lifehouse.Co.

04 March 2016