Report: Apple to end partnership with bank that backs Apple Card, savings accounts

3 years ago by L4sBot to c/technology

Report: Apple to end partnership with bank that backs Apple Card, savings accounts::Goldman Sachs has lost billions of dollars on its consumer-focused businesses.

hth 48 points 3 years ago

Apple is probably not going to partner with anyone because they're becoming the bank

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evatronic 31 points 3 years ago

That is a LOT harder done than said. Apple might have the resources, but they don't have the time or focus to become an actual bank.

They'll just go to some other bank, willing to take on the shittier client risk. Probably Citi or the GE/Synchrony bank. Capital One if they smile real nice and bring flowers.

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troybot 8 points 3 years ago

Yeah they have a physical storefront in every state so, as a bank, they would need to follow the specific financial laws of each state. Gets super complicated because you end up with different interest rates depending on where the customer lives.

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greybeard 8 points 3 years ago

Even if they decided to do it themselves, they'd spin up a subsidiary to do the actual banking. No way Apple would want their retail stores having to live up the the rather strict standards of banks.

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surewhynotlem 0 points 3 years ago

They are in no position to handle the regulation and scrutiny that would involve. It's never worth it.

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wrekone 27 points 3 years ago

people with Goldman-backed credit cards like the Apple Card are actually making their payments less often than people with credit cards from other banks

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

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MacNCheezus 17 points 3 years ago

That’s interesting, because delayed payments are generally where credit card companies make most of their money.

People paying ON TIME and in full are credit card companies’ worst customers because they never pay any interest on their charges.

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wurosh 6 points 3 years ago

True, but the business still pays them plenty. It's not so much that they lose money, it's they they earn less.

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MacNCheezus 1 point 3 years ago

The article says that they lost billions of dollars though.

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wurosh 6 points 3 years ago

That's just mismanagement and inflated input costs. The average cc company is happy either way. Idk what it is with Goldman but they mucked up consumer banking too.

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cyd 22 points 3 years ago

"Bank that backs Apple Card"? People don't know what Goldman "vampire squid" Sachs is anymore?

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thorbot 12 points 3 years ago

So what happens to all the people with thousands of dollars in their saving account with apple / gold man ballsack?

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bingbong 7 points 3 years ago

* gold man-sacks

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thorbot 3 points 3 years ago

I accept your bedazzled man bags

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autotldr 10 points 3 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

But even if those products have proven reasonably popular with consumers, they haven’t been working out for the bank that Apple has partnered with to supply those services.

Goldman Sachs’ consumer services have been losing the company billions of dollars, according to reporting from Bloomberg, CNBC, and The New York Times, among others.

The financial losses seem like the biggest point of contention between the companies, but the WSJ also reports that Apple has frustrated Goldman Sachs execs by demanding that most people who apply for an Apple Card get approved, and that all Apple Card customers receive their bills on the same day (banks typically try to spread these bills out to avoid a deluge of customer service calls).

Executives also partly blame Apple for regulatory issues that Goldman has had with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Reserve.

“The award-winning Apple Card has seen a great reception from consumers, and we will continue to innovate and deliver the best tools and services for them."

Providing services like the Apple Card has become more important to Apple's bottom line in recent years, as revenue growth from the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other hardware businesses has slowed or flatlined.

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GreatAlbatross 4 points 3 years ago

When the card launched, I remember reading that Apple was keen to put their finger on the scales when deciding whether or not somebody was offered credit through Apple. Their logic, I assume, was that the increased profits would offset the increased risk.

This appears not to have been the case.

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