Stanford Federal Credit Union: Bank-branded Checking Accounts Soon from Google

Google is partnering with Citigroup and the Stanford Federal Credit Union to offer checking accounts by next year. Checking accounts. That all-important banking bastion may fall as cashed-up, data-heavy, and user-rich techs muscle into finance. Google's Cache project will launch the search giant's thrust deeper into banking with an offer of checking accounts, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.