Google Plans to Offer <br />Checking Accounts Next Year.<br />The Wall Street Journal reports that <br />the checking account will be released <br />through Google’s ‘Cache’ project.<br />‘Cache’ will be offered through the <br />Google Pay app in partnership with <br />Citigroup and a small Stanford <br />University credit union.<br />The company has been upfront about <br />its role in the accounts, with its <br />partnering banks taking the lead <br />with the financial backend.<br />Google has also claimed that <br />it will not be selling checking <br />account data to advertisers.<br />The plan follows competing tech giant <br />Apple’s foray into the financial sector <br />with the Apple Card and Facebook’s <br />cryptocurrency, Libra
