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The challenger bank might use the proceeds from its latest funding round to buy other fintechs that would allow it to add more products and services, its CEO said.

Consumer trust issues have long been a stumbling block for challenger banks, but many say Google will face bigger obstacles.

Earlier this decade, a boom in low-cost prepaid cards undercut the firm's business model. Now the fiercest competition is coming from venture capital-backed startups that offer accounts with no overdraft fees.

Outages last week at Chime and Varo Money have executives on the defensive.

The payments processor Galileo suffered what it described as an "operational incident" that caused more than 24 hours of outages at the fintechs Chime and Varo Money.

Surety's first online bank, booyah, is aimed at college students and young grads.

Hackers go in for the kill when challenger banks and others launch retail products. So the companies are forced to step up their defenses — fast.

Charging customers $40 for a $10 overdraft “makes no mathematical sense,” Chime CEO Chris Britt says in a critique of traditional banks.

Its latest feature makes it one of several mobile-only challenger banks in the U.S. that charge no overdraft fees of any kind.

Challenger banks promote the concept of empathy in banking, which sometimes means forgoing revenue to build up customer goodwill.

The CEO of the digital-only bank Chime says it has quadrupled its membership in a year. So why doesn't his counterpart at Varo believe him?

As N26 schedules its launch for midyear, it will face off against other startups and mobile-only spinoffs from incumbent financial institutions.

Chime, Chart IQ, Starling Bank and several other startups have raised millions of dollars from venture capital and private-equity firms this year. Here's what they plan to do with their haul.

Digit, Chime and Pluto are among those said to be stepping into a void left by the banking industry. But designing helpful enough, yet flexible enough, financial safeguards for consumers is easier said than done.

The San Francisco challenger bank is adding 150,000 customers per month and plans to expand its financial product offerings.

Digital banks dispute the notion that they can skimp on customer service because millennials are only shopping for low fees and high savings rates.

Fintech challenger banks like Simple, Moven, Varo and Chime have faced separate headwinds in recent years. Here's how they’re taking up the charge again.

Disruptors would get a powerful new competitor if Amazon began offering checking accounts, but such a move would also validate the notion that fintechs are the future.