More media attention — and investor interest — weren’t far behind. Enter banking giant JPMorgan Chase, which hoped to ...

Here's how Enter banking giant JPMorgan Chase, which hoped to leverage Frank’s alleged massive user base of more than 4 million students to gain a stronger foothold in the lucrative student finance ...

A federal jury in Manhattan has convicted the Frank founder, Charlie Javice, of four counts of defrauding JPMorgan Chase. It took jurors eight hours of deliberations over two days to reach Friday ...

It was in the spring of 2009 that Howard Finkelstein, an attorney who advises startups, first met Charlie Javice at the Microfinance Club of New York, a startup event hosted by New York University.

She first joined PEOPLE in 2025 as a Night Digital News Writer. Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg/Getty Charlie Javice, the founder of the student aid startup Frank, has been convicted of defrauding ...

Convicted of fraud and facing the possibility of decades in prison, Charlie Javice was concerned about how a monitoring device would affect her job. By Alex Vadukul and Ron Lieber Ron Lieber ...