First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America
https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/26/first-boulevard-raises-5m-for-its-digital-bank-aimed-at-black-america/
The murder of George Floyd last May ignited many things in the United States last year — one of which that was perhaps unexpected: a rise in the number of digital banks targeting the Black community.
Some members of the Black community took their belief that big banks are not meeting their needs and turned them into startup concepts.