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FDIC) study found that the number of unbanked U.S. consumers are now using some kind of P2P mobile application, such as Venmo.”. A recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. consumers will likely start rising again as a result of the pandemic recession. Thirty-one percent of U.S.
Square also made the jump into officially becoming a bank this week, with the award of an ILC banking license by the FDIC. He cited Venmo as a terrific example of this – as well as an example of how banks working in concert to be more digitally focused can respond with digital innovations of their own. What we learned was interesting.
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But tech and retail players have worked around this by offering an ever-greater number of financial services — or financial service adjacent-services — like Apple Pay, Venmo and LendingClub.
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