Coinbase Receives Overwhelming Response for 90-Day USAA Bitcoin Pilot
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....
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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....
This piece has been updated with an image from the USAA/Coinbase integration. American financial services company USAA is rolling out a pilot program that will let some of its customers view their Coinbase bitcoin balances through their USAA online and mobile accounts. The pilot, as outlined in a new blog post from Coinbase, represents a small but deliberate move by the US military-focused insurer to tap interest in bitcoin among its customer base. In an interview with CoinDesk, USAA framed the pilot - which only allows view-only balance checks with no transaction support at this time - as....
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....
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,....