{"id":13654,"date":"2019-09-24T06:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13654"},"modified":"2019-09-24T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:41:38","slug":"startup-cleo-moves-beyond-simple-banking-application-to-financial-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/startup-cleo-moves-beyond-simple-banking-application-to-financial-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Cleo moves beyond simple banking application to financial advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A seemingly infinite number of startups and simple banking applications offer users the ability to easily track and view their spending habits. But English startup Cleo is taking this a step further by not only letting users track where their money is going but also letting them actively influence this. Cleo, a self-described financial advisor, helps users budget by letting them proactively set spending rules (i.e. no more than USD XX to be spent at restaurants per week\/month). Cleo also hopes to eventually give users the chance setup blocked transactions that will automatically block any transaction that violates the user\u2019s rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cleo works by linking banking information with the Facebook Messenger app. Cleo then communicates with the user as a chatbot via the Messenger app. Cleo also offers users the chance to save money in a separate account and, via a paid subscription, get cashback rewards.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-13654 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Open banking to begin a new data economy in Australia on July 1'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/open-banking-to-begin-a-new-data-economy-in-australia-on-july-1\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/open-banking-to-begin-a-new-data-economy-in-australia-on-july-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12972\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12972'>\n\t\t\t\tOpen banking to begin a new data economy in Australia on July 1\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='The Rise Of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Lending'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/the-rise-of-peer-to-peer-p2p-lending\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/6a45958bcd0d76452b35083b0dff3d77-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-3680\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-3680'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Rise Of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Lending\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='The 5 Budget Apps and Personal Finance Tools'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/the-5-budget-apps-and-personal-finance-tools\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/the-5-budget-apps-and-personal-finance-tools-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13714\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13714'>\n\t\t\t\tThe 5 Budget Apps and Personal Finance Tools\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seemingly infinite number of startups and simple banking applications offer users the ability to easily track and view their spending habits. But English startup Cleo is taking this a step further by not only letting users track where their money is going but also letting them actively influence this. Cleo, a self-described financial advisor, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,292],"tags":[35,335,453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13655,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions\/13655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}