Chime outgrew bank partner model, CEO says

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    "url": "https://www.bankingdive.com/news/chime-ceo-fintech-outgrew-bank-partner-model-stride/830044/",
    "title": "Chime outgrew bank partner model, CEO says",
    "author": "Caitlin Mullen",
    "excerpt": "“There’s no question that we haven’t been able to move as fast as we would like” with product launches, Chris Britt said Wednesday. Becoming a bank will bolster prospective customers’ trust in Chime and allow the fintech to move faster with product launches, CEO Chris Britt said Wednesday. San Francisco-based Chime said Tuesday it seeks to acquire one of its bank partners, Enid, Oklahoma-based Stride Bank, for $590 million in cash. The deal combines the fintech’s tech stack with the bank’s infrastructure, and means lower funding costs and no more bank partner fees for Chime. It’s been “an inevitability” that “to achieve our ambition to be the leader in banking, we would at some point be a bank,” Britt said Wednesday at a Goldman Sachs investor conference . The time was right to make that move, he said, pointing to the current regulatory climate and the opportunity to release products more quickly. He indicated charter-holding Chime can be more efficient on that front than it has been through bank partners. With artificial intelligence, “you can create new products, new services, new experiences faster than you ever could,” he said. “When we look at all the innovation, how quickly things are changing in the age of AI, we have to have full control of the product output and delivery cycle.” But regulated products have to go through legal, compliance and other reviews, and...",
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