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‘Combining our customer-first focus and local brand’: Inside Seattle Bank’s partnership with Google

Google's new bank accounts are being launched in partnership with banks around the U.S.
Seattle Bank, a community bank serving Puget Sound, is collaborating with Google to launch a new Google Plex account.

Zachary Miller | November 26, 2020

We’ve been talking for a long time about big tech’s move into financial services. We’ve seen Apple’s launch of a credit card, Amazon and Shopify lending to merchants, and Facebook move deeper into payments on its messaging apps.

News hit this week that gave us more insight into Google’s moves in banking. The company is launching Plex accounts, smarter and simpler bank accounts within a redesgined Google Pay app. Google isn’t becoming a bank — these accounts are launched in collaboration with chartered banks, like Citi and BBVA.

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Robinhood is an online stock brokerage that offers its customers commission free trading and investing. Robinhood users can invest and trade in stocks, exchange traded funds, options, and cryptocurrency. Customers can invest in over 5,000 stocks with Robinhood, including most U.S. equities and ETFs listed on U.S. exchanges.

Robinhood Financial, LLC and Robinhood Crypto, LLC are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Robinhood Markets, Inc. All cryptocurrency holdings are held in Robinhood Crypto as opposed to Robinhood Financial.

The company was founded in 2013 by Stanford roommates Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev. It has its headquarters in Menlo Park California and offices in the U.S and the UK.

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Robinhood Instant

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