Less than a year after launching a standalone mobile bank it dubbed Finn, JPMorgan Chase is planning to drop the brand and shift Finn’s customers to its namesake mobile product.
Finn will be turned off Aug. 10, and all customers will be automatically moved to the Chase Mobile app, the company
During Finn’s brief existence, JPMorgan learned that “our millennial customers don’t need a separate brand or experience,” spokesman Pablo Rodriguez said in an emailed statement.
“We know the Chase brand is already among the most popular banks for millennials, so we’re leaning in on that, rather than continuing to build a brand from scratch,” he said.
Finn’s users know that JPMorgan operates the app, as its officially called Finn by Chase and uses the Chase circular logo. Some of Finn’s exclusive features, such as an automatic-saving plan, will be implemented on the Chase mobile banking app.
A degree of cannibalization also came into play into JPMorgan’s decision, as more than half of Finn’s customers also had an additional Chase Bank account, Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez declined to say how much JPMorgan spent to develop and maintain Finn.
JPMorgan is among several banks that have recently developed separately branded online-only or mobile banks. Wells Fargo created
The news that JPMorgan was shuttering Finn was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
