May 2023

Senate Banking chair urges FDIC to look into Tellus, a fintech backed by Andreessen Horowitz

May 4, 2023

Tellus, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed fintech company that claims it can offer people higher yields on their savings balances by using that money to fund certain U.S. single-family-home loans, is under scrutiny by the U.S. government. On May 2, as first reported by Barron’s, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs […]

Senate Banking chair urges FDIC to look into Tellus, a fintech backed by Andreessen Horowitz by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp now lets you create single-vote polls and forward media with captions

May 4, 2023

WhatsApp is adding a few new updates around polls and sharing on its platform, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, you can now create single-vote polls and forward media with captions. You now have the option to create single-vote polls, which means you can run a poll where people are only allowed to vote […]

WhatsApp now lets you create single-vote polls and forward media with captions by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Slash aims to corner the Gen Z market with business-focused banking features

May 4, 2023

Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai — college dropouts from Stanford University and the University of Waterloo, respectively — built a fintech platform called Slash that lets users create shareable virtual cards to split recurring expenses. Slash quickly became popular with teenagers because its virtual cards were debit-based, available to people 13 […]

Slash aims to corner the Gen Z market with business-focused banking features by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch