Top Fintech News Stories for August 18, 2020

Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:

• It’s Official: American Express is Acquiring Kabbage
• BankThink: FedNow? More like FedLate.
• Covid-19 Bringing In New Mobile Payment Users
• Fintechs Were Supposed Improve Equality – What Happened?
• What is slowing banks’ digital transformation?
• Podcast ‘We’re all the same size rectangle on the Zoom screen’
• Starling Bank Survey Reveals 80% of UK SMEs Are Confident They Will Recover From COVID Despite Concerning Economic Forecast
• TD payments exec: COVID response breaking barriers, spurring diversity
• Financial Wellness Tools Propel Fintech Deeper into Banking Space
• Forget about Monzo and Starling, what about Metro Bank, Tandem, Tide, OakNorth and all the other challengers?