Some customers became collateral damage from the US neobank’s initiative to fight fraudulent federal stimulus checks and unemployment insurance—which could hurt Chime’s efforts to attract users and persuade them to make it their primary bank.
A new desk at The Trade Desk: On track to surpass $1 billion in ad revenues this year, The Trade Desk unveiled a new venture capital arm and a new trading platform focused on first-party data.
Bringing them home: Comcast’s Universal Pictures will send its 2022 film slate directly to Peacock after appearing in cinemas, replacing HBO as its traditional distributor.
TikTok copies Cameo: The Shoutouts feature will let fans pay for personalized videos from their favorite influencers, another monetization route that should help keep creators on the platform.
The network’s $1 billion crypto-related spend total in H1 2021 points to an effective growth strategy—and serves as a harbinger of what’s to come.
Charles Schwab’s $200 million fine signals that the industry will face more regulatory pressure to provide greater transparency on fees and portfolio allocations and avoid conflicts of interest.
U.S. Bank hastens branch closures: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the bank saw digital adoption spike, and it now plans to accelerate its pre-planned branch closures—but it intends to keep in-person banking relevant by pushing complex services in person.
We recently updated our top 10 list of US retailers by ecommerce sales, but this time, we extended our ranking to the top 15. Together, these 15 companies will account for 72.3% of ecommerce sales in the US this year, up 10.5 percentage points from 2019, largely due to growth seen by Amazon and Walmart.
Insider Intelligence’s second annual Banking Digital Trust survey polled 2,412 US digital banking users in February and March 2021 on their attitudes toward their banks across six key dimensions of digital trust: Security, Privacy, Reputation, Reliability, Ease of Use, and Feature Breadth. Now, we present a new data cut in which we split respondents into two key groups: the Trusters and the Doubters.
eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring Epsilon’s Shelly Photiades, vice president, strategy services, Sandeep Gadre, senior director, product management, and Evan Goldstein, vice president, analytics. They shared what financial services marketers can do to make their marketing work harder – and what that looks like in real life.
Atom Bank passes £3B mortgage level: Amid a sizzling property market, the UK-based neobank completed more than £3 billion ($3.85 billion) worth of mortgages—a win that helps it stand out from fellow challengers.
Discount retailers hop on the healthcare bandwagon, too: Dollar General is expanding its healthcare products and services— we think its massive US store footprint could threaten retail giants like CVS and Walgreens.
UnitedHealthcare helps make better sense of social health data: It launched a new predictive analytics tool to better connect members with social services they need to improve their health—we unpack why tools like these are important for advancing social determinants of health projects.