USAA Rolls Out Bitcoin Integration to All Members

Following a short USAA-Coinbase pilot integration that launched last November, which allowed a small group of USAA members to view their Coinbase bitcoin balance on USAA.com and via the USAA’s mobile app, the American financial services provider has decided to roll out the integration to all members. ‘All members of USAA’. The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) is a financial services group that offers banking, investing, and insurance to people and families that serve, or have served, in the United States military. Hence following the successful pilot scheme between USAA and....

USAA is expanding its bitcoin integration by allowing all accountholders to connect and view balances on Coinbase from its USAA.com website following its November pilot program. In a post today, USAA called the pilot run successful and stated that support for the mobile app would likely be rolled out in March. Both USAA.com and the USAA mobile apps were part of the initial trial. In statements, lead investment associate at the USAA corporate development Jon Cholak, indicated his support for the more widespread rollout, positioning his firm as an early advocate for the technology. Cholak....

Just hours after announcing that the Texas-based diversified financial services group USAA has in partnership with Coinbase, launched a pilot that allows a randomly selected, limited group of USAA members to view their bitcoin balance on USAA.com and the USAA mobile app, the Bitcoin wallet and instant exchange company has received an overwhelming number of requests from unselected USAA members. The pilot was initially rolled out to USAA employees in September. NEWSBTC.com has learned that the program will run for approximately 90-days from 11/2/2015 - 1/29/2016. On being asked about the....

Following an initial pilot run which saw select USAA employees and members view their Coinbase accounts via the website and the mobile application, the USAA is now expanding bitcoin integration via Coinbase for all member accounts. In a post yesterday, USAA announced that all account holders will be able to view their Coinbase accounts in tandem with the rest of their USAA accounts and financial services on the USAA website. Support for the mobile application will be available later this month, although both website and the application were a part of the November 2015 trial. Jon Cholak,....

USAA's recent entrance into the bitcoin space may have been driven, in part, by interest in the technology among its own membership. The Fortune 500 financial services company, based in Texas, was among a diverse group of investors that took part in Coinbase's $75 million Series C funding round, which was announced earlier this month. USAA, founded in 1922, focuses primarily on the US military and veteran market. The financial group's head of corporate development, Vic Pascucci, said that USAA envisions digital currencies playing a possible role in future services, and cited internal data....