Amazon is currently in the early stages of building a new checkout terminal for coffee shops, fast-food restaurants and other...
Even though it does have a lending operation Amazon did not take part in the Paycheck Protection Program directly; but...
The Wall Street Journal took a look at the relationship that’s evolved between JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Amazon...
Amazon is fast becoming the financial services company of the future; they now have their hands in payments, cash, small business lending, consumer credit and more; partnerships with companies like USAA and Capital One who use Amazon's Alexa digital assistant have emerged; this all shows the threat Amazon poses to traditional banking giants, though there has been no indication they want to become a bank themselves; JPMorgan Chase has started using Amazon's cloud-based AWS service to build a hybrid private-public cloud strategy; AWS sales increased 42% on a year-over-year basis to $4.1 billion for the second quarter; banks are starting to become technology firms and technology firms are helping to change the way banks operate. Source
SunTrust Bank, Ally Ventures and Amazon Alexa Fund teamed up with others to raise $16mn for Greenlight Financial Technology; Greenlight makes smart debit cards for kids and college students to spend more wisely; The company also offers a mobile app complete with parental controls so parents can teach their kids how to spend; this is a further jump into financial services for Amazon as it looks to enter the space through the partnership model. Source
Maria Renz spent more than 20 years at Amazon and is now joining SoFi; Renz was most recently vice president...
The company shared information about their loan business in a broader update about the company; total lending was $3 billion since Amazon Lending started in 2011; an article by PYMNTS.com in June 2017 reported that the company had surpassed $1 billion in loans; in 2017 over 300,000 small and medium sized businesses joined Amazon Marketplace. Source
According to HousingWire Amazon is exploring the mortgage lending business and is actively hiring in the new division; the company is already rumored to be looking into offering a checking product. Source
Amazon has been in the news lately for their continued push into banking related services but they are not the only ones making the push; TearSheet looks into three big name retailers also pushing their businesses into finance; Rakuten is Japan’s largest e-commerce site as their footprint includes video on demand, mobile messaging and they also operate the largest online bank in the country; Overstock.com has been building a marketplace for financial services named the FinancHub; two of the U.K.’s largest grocers, Sainsbury and Tesco, have opened banks via joint ventures. Source.
Amazon has partnered with Synchrony Financial in order to launch the Amazon Credit Builder which targets customers who have no...