{"id":2345115,"date":"2026-03-25T16:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2345115"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:27:18","slug":"celebrity-backed-financial-tools-for-teens-spur-federal-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celebrity-backed-financial-tools-for-teens-spur-federal-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity-Backed Financial Tools for Teens Spur Federal Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-text\">\n<div>\n<p>Online celebrities, startups, and big-name financial institutions are targeting teens as the latest lucrative market for fintech products\u2014and they\u2019ve caught the eye of the Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Companies such as Greenlight based their business model on offering debit cards, budgeting features, or beginner investing tools to minors, while financial institutions including <bw-company data-stock-symbol=\"COF\" class=\"company\" data-name=\"Capital One Financial Corp\" data-urn=\"urn:blp:company:US:COF\">Capital One Financial Corp.<\/bw-company> and Fidelity Investments expanded services to target younger users. Investors have also thrown <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.crunchbase.com\/fintech-ecommerce\/fintech-startups-target-younger-audiences-investor-interest-in-financial-literacy\/\">hundreds of millions<\/a> of dollars in the last decade into deals with financial technology startups that cater specifically to teens.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Donaldson\u2014better known as MrBeast to 470 million Youtube followers\u2014and Beast Industries &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source news.bloomberglaw.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online celebrities, startups, and big-name financial institutions are targeting teens as the latest lucrative market for fintech products\u2014and they\u2019ve caught the eye of the Federal Trade Commission. Companies such as Greenlight based their business model on offering debit cards, budgeting features, or beginner investing tools to minors, while financial institutions including Capital One Financial Corp. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2345116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[454930,454926,454929,454928,385834,454927,454925],"class_list":["post-2345115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-child-online-privacy","tag-consumer-lending","tag-consumer-privacy","tag-debit-cards","tag-digital-currency","tag-fair-lending","tag-unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Celebrity-Backed-Financial-Tools-for-Teens-Spur-Federal-Scrutiny.com2F1c2F572Ff475f4af4c4793ce9.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345117,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345115\/revisions\/2345117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}