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Happy Money: A Happier Way of Lending

Method and Happy Money partner to help borrowers achieve their financial goals faster while also helping credit unions better serve their members.

Spotlight: Nathan Wu, Software Engineer

Meet Nathan, a software engineer in Method's New York office

Spotlight: Anthony Monaco, Customer Success Manager

Meet Anthony, one of our Customer Success Managers at Method Financial.

The Importance of Inclusive Authentication in Bridging the Financial Divide

Diverse authentication regimes under the CFPB’s final Section 1033 rule will enable consumers without credentials, including the unbanked, the underbanked, and those who bank non-digitally, to enjoy the benefits of open banking.

Sequence: The First Personal Financial Router

Partnering with Method empowers Sequence to help users visualize their money flow, set smart routing rules, and control it all from one single powerful platform.

Budge: Helping Aspiring Millennials Take Financial Flight

Partnering with Method enabled Budge to go to market in weeks with a solution that helps busy millennials overcome personal debt and build short-term savings by delivering coaching resources and seamless execution in one cohesive experience.

Spotlight: Quyen Tien, Lead Recruiter

Meet Quyen, our Lead Recruiter at Method Financial.

Plannery: Tackling Debt for Healthcare Professionals

Partnering with Method empowers Plannery to wholeheartedly support their mission of helping healthcare professionals take control of their financial future.

Spotlight: Mustafa Ali, Founding Software Engineer

Meet Mustafa, founding software engineer and the first engineering hire at Method Financial.

The Critical Importance of Liability Account Inclusion in the CFPB’s 1033 Rule

Liability account inclusion in CFPB’s 1033 can expand payment access in the unbanked and underbanked communities

Creating a Gateway to Equitable Access to Credit on Capitol Hill

Moving beyond screen scraping to extend access to credit for the underserved and underbanked

Clutch: Drive cross-sell opportunities for Credit Unions

How Clutch Helps Credit Unions Cross-sell Loan Products to Members with Method’s Real-Time Balance Transfer API

Method’s Approach to Open Finance

Expanding Financial Inclusion through Method’s Approach to Open Finance in Washington

Propelling the next decade of consumer finance

We’re excited to announce that Method has raised a $16M Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz joined by Truist Ventures, SV Angel, Abstract Ventures, and a slew of prominent fintech founders.

Chipper: Enacting Student Loan Forgiveness Via Method

Chipper worked with Method to help retrieve, access, and apply for student loan forgiveness using just their phone number.

Tackling the Debt Crisis with Streamlined Refinance

Consumers have been taking on more debt throughout the pandemic — but as interest rates rise, it’s unclear if they may be able to pay it back.

Celebrating Method's First Year

We are celebrating Method’s first anniversary! Reflect back on the year with us and see the exciting work our team and partners are doing to help individuals manage their debt.

What’s New: Method Data and Method Sync Improvements, Liability Data Enhancements, and more

Do more with more data! Enhance and simplify your user experience by having instant access to important liability details and the ability to make payments to any liability, all powered by Method Data and Method Sync.

How automated payments can transform personal finance

Imagine a world where your bills are paid off automatically and seamlessly, with just a single notification telling you it’s complete.

Spritz: Enabling Cryptocurrency Bill Payment using Method

Spritz worked with Method to connect crypto with personal finances, helping users unlock real-world utility and improve their financial wellness by making on-chain bill payments.

Method Sync: Real-time data for all liabilities

Instantly access balance, due dates, interest rates and much more for all types of consumer debts. Powered by Method Data, allowing you to access your users' complete debt portfolio using just their phone number.

Gauss: Working with Method to provide instant credit card balance transfer

Credit card companies charge borrowers 22%-27% APR irrespective of their credit score. Instead Gauss provides prime borrowers a real alternative - a credit card at 14% APR on pre-approved balance, with no origination fee.

PTO Genius: Transforming accrued PTO into financial wellness using Method

Most U.S. employees still don’t use all of their paid time off. PTO Genius and Method are working together to provide employees with alternatives to utilizing their PTO and putting them on a path of financial success and wellness.

What's New: Method Data, Auth Element, Payment fees, Dashboard and more

April was a huge month at Method! We launched Method Data, shipped 20+ updates to Method's Dashboard, released payment fees and much more.

Just launched: Method Data

With ever increasing number of credit lines per consumer and brittle incumbent API integration failures, the challenge to creating a seamless debt repayment user experience within a product is real. Introducing Method Data: Instantly access your users' complete debt portfolio using just their phone number - no login credentials required.

What's New: Dashboard, Filtering, and Simulations

This is the first edition of Method's monthly engineering update! In addition to our developer changelog we'll feature key updates, explain the motivation behind them, and provide a couple of tips on how you can use them to make your Method integration more seamless.

Highway Benefits: Working with Method to provide student loan contributions as an employee benefit

In a climate where student debt has risen to $1.75 trillion, Highway Benefits developed a platform for student loan repayments as a benefit. Method and Highway Benefits are working together to solve this massive problem.

Method’s journey into debt repayment rails

We are excited to announce that Method has raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round from Y Combinator, Ardent Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners and a slew of VCs and angel investors, including Haroon Mokhtarzada (CEO & co-founder at Truebill), Val Gui (VP Product at Upstart), and others.