If Walmart’s fintech offering will be called Hazel, then Walgreens is going Scarlet. The pharmacy chain this week launched a bank account, debit card and personal finance planning tools under the Scarlet brand name.

Popular investing, savings and personal finance app Acorns is partnering with Cricket Wireless in a bid to encourage customers to save while paying their phone bills.

Fintech MoneyLion, which began as a lending and personal-finance platform and more recently added banking and investing, is pursuing a financial “super app” strategy to grow its customer base.

A 2018 by Medici report provides anecdotal evidence of a 10% survival rate for bootstrapped fintech startups.

Five months after U.S. regulators scuttled Visa’s Plaid acquisition, the payments giant announced it’s planning to acquire open banking startup Tink, which was established in 2012.

Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank will acquire Provide, an 8-year-old startup that focuses on building financial products that make starting and running a healthcare practice easy, including practice lending, business bank accounts, and insurance. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cross River Bank, the New Jersey-based bank behind fintechs like Affirm, Upgrade, and Upstart, announced that it created its own venture capital arm to invest in companies that “sit at the intersection of lending, payments, investing and fintech.”

Credit Sesame, a credit monitoring and personal finance management platform, announced that it acquired Zingo, a software firm whose toolset allows its customers to boost their credit scores by adding rent payments.

Pipe, a Miami-based company that lets companies sell their recurring revenue streams on its platform, raised $250M, bringing its valuation to $2B a year after its launch.

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. V (IPOE), the Chamath Palihapitiya-linked special-purpose acquisition company, has outlined next steps for its merger with SoFi, a deal that will take the 10-year-old fintech public.

Argyle, a fintech startup that aspires to become the “Plaid for employment records” by offering consumers capabilities to grant permission to access their payroll data, is being scrutinized over its motives to collect payroll data and offering to pay consumers for access to login information.

Klarna, a Sweden-based ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) provider with global reach, is launching a program to help pandemic-affected U.S. businesses, which includes in-kind media services, and free BNPL offerings.

Walmart has tapped Citi executive Julia Unger as its vice president of financial services. Unger spent more than 18 years at Citi, most recently as head of global cards and unsecured lending.

In its second acquisition of this year, Fintech Acorns has acquired Pillar, a startup whose toolset functions like a robo-adviser that helps clients pay down their student loan debts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Data aggregator Plaid, which earlier this year pulled away from a $5.3B deal to merge with Visa amid a Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit, is in the process of securing further funding at a $13B valuation, a report citing unnamed sources claims.