[TylerE]

Calling this banking is incredibly misleading as it is not FDIC insured. Not a bank.

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"Access $5M FDIC insurance or more"

[TylerE]

Only with multiple caveats.

The first line on the page is "Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank.".

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Ultimately the money is stored in actual banks. We're stuck with "fintechs" because banks seemingly can't/won't modernize and the government won't allow new banks to be created.

[SvenL]

At least I know that bunq, an European „NeoBank“, applied for an FDIC license in the US and received one. It’s offers a lot of cool features and an API.