Why Ally Bank Eliminated Overdraft Fees
During 2020 – the height of the pandemic – U.S. consumers were charged $12.4 billion in overdraft fees by our nation’s banks. The majority of these fees were paid by individuals living paycheck to paycheck or with consistently low balances. To truly live up to our name at Ally Bank, we knew it was time […]
How 4 Ally Interns Created Fintropolis, A New World in Minecraft
The Team: Four Ally interns The Mission: Design a financial education curriculum for middle schoolers at low-to-moderate income schools The Outcome: The nationwide launch of Fintropolis, a new Minecraft world, created by Blockworks in collaboration with Ally that teaches young people financial concepts (available for both Minecraft and Minecraft: Education Edition) The Journey Our story […]
10 Inspiring Women Daring to Disrupt the World of Entrepreneurship
More than 2 million. That’s the number of women who left the workforce in 2020 — largely the result of the disproportionate impact the pandemic had on working women who were forced to choose between caring for their families and continuing their careers. The difficulties of the year only highlighted the gender inequalities in the […]
Fast Cars and Four Legged Friends: Meet NASCAR’s Alex Bowman
NASCAR’s Alex Bowman’s interest in caring for dogs and supporting animal shelters across the country is personal. The newest driver for the Ally-sponsored No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet has always been a dog person, even before he adopted his sweet rescue pup Roscoe in 2013. Now a dog daddy of two, Alex is determined to […]
How the 2021 TIME Dealer of the Year Makes an Impact Within His Community
Every year, Ally, TIME and the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) come together to recognize and celebrate the various ways auto dealers across the U.S. are making an impact in the showroom and beyond. This year, Rick DeSilva, Jr., of Liberty Subaru was the recipient of the TIME Dealer of the Year Award — and […]
COVID-19 Vaccine: Facts You Need to Know
Navigating the coronavirus pandemic has been stressful for many of us over the past year. We’ve had to learn a lot about a new health threat while working to understand its impacts on our daily lives, our communities, our economy and society at large. In the meantime, global researchers, doctors and scientists have come together […]
An Ally from the Beginning: 5 Reasons Why We Love Soccer and Our Commitment to Community
As the founding and lead sponsor of Charlotte’s new MLS club, Charlotte FC, we believe in the power of play and the importance of sports in building teamwork, community, and healthy habits — but what is it about soccer that we especially love? Here are a few reasons why this sponsorship and our work with […]
Elevate Your Financial Future: 3 Memorable Lessons From the Ally Digital Conference
At Ally Invest, there’s not much we love more than getting together and talking about all things saving, investing and planning for retirement. Combine that with the fact that only about half of U.S. adults have some form of retirement plan in place and you’ll see why, on February 24, we brought in experts from […]
To the New Year’s Eve Babies of 2020
To the New Year’s Eve babies of 2020, You’re almost here, and we can’t wait to meet you. You should know that a lot will be said about your birth year, and much of it will be pretty tough to hear. There have been extraordinary challenges, tragedies and troubling events — that is true. But […]
Second Annual Moguls in the Making: The Next Generation of Young HBCU Entrepreneurs
Moguls in the Making was born from the need to act — to put our beliefs into practice by creating a program that would tackle the issue of economic mobility head-on. That’s why we, along with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Sean Anderson Foundation, launched Moguls in the Making, an annual entrepreneurial competition […]
