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From: Paul H. Christiansen3/5/2018 9:54:31 AM
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Are You Ready for an Amazon-Branded Checking Account?



Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.96% is in talks with big banks including JPMorgan Chase JPM -0.80% & Co. about building a checking-account-like product the e-commerce giant could offer its customers, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effort is still in its early stages and may not come to fruition, the people said. The talks with financial firms are focused on creating a product that would appeal to younger customers and those without bank accounts. Whatever its final form, the initiative wouldn’t involve Amazon becoming a bank, the people added.

If the product emerges, it would further inject Amazon into the lives of those who shop on its website and at its Whole Foods grocery stores, read on its Kindles, watch its streaming video and chat with Alexa, its digital assistant. Offering a product that is similar to an own-branded bank account could help reduce fees Amazon pays to financial firms and provide it with valuable data on customers’ income and spending habits.

The company’s latest push also answers a question that bank executives have been asking with increasing worry: When will Amazon show up on their turf?

With millions of customers, troves of data, access to cheap capital and seemingly unlimited leeway from its investors to enter new businesses, Amazon is a fearsome competitor. Its more-than $700 billion market value eclipses the combined value of JPMorgan and Bank of America Corp, the two biggest U.S. banks.

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