6/13/2019 7:08:50 PM Amazon launches a credit card for the ‘underbanked’ with bad credit By Carlos Alonso Torras The e-commerce giant has partnered up with the publicly traded Synchrony Financial to launch “Amazon Credit Builder” — a program that...
2/6/2015 1:44:01 PM What you should know about fintech and its positive powers By FinTech Collective The Guardian initiated an online chat in which experts in financial technology addressed questions from readers. The summary covers how...
1/29/2015 4:46:23 PM Bill Gates' annual letter focuses on mobile banking helping the poor By FinTech Collective In his 2015 annual letter, Bill Gates focuses on the underbanked. He believes the key to helping this demographic is the mobile phone....
11/2/2014 7:59:25 PM Are Banks Too Expensive to Use? By Gareth Jones According to a new Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation report 25 million Americans were unbanked in 2013 — they had no bank account at...
10/20/2014 1:11:19 AM Why PayPal's Split From eBay Threatens 70 Million Americans By Gareth Jones It's nuanced, but the PayPal-eBay breakup means that 70 million underbanked Americans are losing an unlikely champion: new PayPal...
9/23/2014 1:43:44 AM Banks Experiment with Apps for the Underbanked By Gareth Jones About 8% of U.S. households are unbanked and another 20% are underbanked (FDIC). However Underbanked consumers are adopting mobile...
8/1/2014 12:53:55 PM Watch John Oliver Explain How Broken America's Prisons Are By Brooks Gibbins Prison reform dialogue is hitting some of its highest levels of public awareness in the US, ever. There's a role for tech and...
7/17/2014 1:37:58 PM In Prisons, Sky-High Phone Rates and Money Transfer Fees By Gareth Jones Our portfolio company American Prison Data Systems (APDS) is attacking this problem head on and we're extremely proud to be involved.