Chime

Chime Financial, Inc. is a San Francisco–based financial technology company that partners with regional banks to provide certain fee-free mobile banking services. The company offers early access to paychecks, negative account balances without overdraft fees, high-yield savings accounts, peer-to-peer payments, and an interest-free secured credit card. Chime earns the majority of its revenue from the collection of interchange fees on debit card transactions. Chime is not a bank and Chime customers do not have a customer relationship with its banks. Chime can and does cancel user accounts without notice; moreover, it is not required to provide a reason for the cancellation to the customer or even have a reason. Customers cannot appeal to banking regulators to retrieve their deposits, which may not be returned in a timely fashion. History Chime was founded by Chris Britt (CEO) and Ryan King (CTO) in 2012 in San Francisco, California as an alternative to traditional banking with a mission of creating financial peace of mind. The company launched on April 15, 2014, on the Dr. Phil Show. As of 2020, Chime has raised $1.5 billion in private funding and in 2022 was named one of Fortune's Best Places to Work.