As consumers use digital subscriptions for everything from streaming movies to cooking meals, financial apps are taking different approaches to helping their customers navigate recurring payments. Should banks get in on the action?
Kofax, a financial technology company in Irvine, Calif., on Thursday released a product that allows lenders to capture and process electronic signatures.
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The service was created to meet institutional clients' needs for real-time payments.
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The Swedish furniture giant debuts a modest U.S. buy now/pay later loan program via Afterpay, with interest-free terms that are unlikely to anger regulators.
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A London-based fintech owner accused of helping drug traffickers launder hundreds of millions of euros through a crypto exchange platform must be extradited to Belgium to face criminal charges, a London judge ruled.
A near-collapse of the global software vulnerability database exposed critical weaknesses that could leave banks unable to track cyber threats.
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Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA Inc. of Chicago has acquired Prestige Professional Plans, a single-office employee benefits insurance brokerage in Dayton, Ohio.
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Only half as many municipal advisory firms are registered with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board as with the Securities and Exchange Commission, even though advisory firms are required to sign up with both regulators under the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Jeremy Grantham, Bill Miller and Donald Yacktman, having told mutual fund investors that 2010 was a year to buy the biggest stocks, and getting drubbed by most of their peers, are sticking with that prediction.
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At Digital Mortgage 2018, Bill Emerson, the vice chairman of Quicken Loans and its parent company Rock Holdings, outlined a vision of dramatic digital disintermediation.
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A new study from Pentagon Federal Credit Union finds a sizable portion of consumers will be shopping for a mortgage within two years, but it also revealed some major misconceptions surrounding the process.
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Ellie Mae EVP Joe Tyrrell talks customer acquisition strategy. Crafting a personalized consumer experience, he says, starts with data.
Ex-State Street exec joins Citizens Financial's board, payment software firm Toast will cut workers, Visa rolls out enhanced digital wallet tools and more in the weekly banking news roundup.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued some of the largest U.S. corporations and banks before the changeover to the Trump administration later this month.
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Using social networks to make purchases and non-credit-card options like buy now, pay later are a permanent part of retail, Dan Brames of FIS writes.
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ISVs that optimize B2B payments within their software solutions stand to save the day for merchants who want to grow but feel hamstrung with their current solutions, Ashley Jones of Global Payments Integrated says.
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In addressing systemic risks posed by fluctuating cryptocurrency values, the Federal Reserve and other central banks must acknowledge that quantitative easing has driven up the price of digital assets.
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Washington Federal Bank and Planet Home Lending are both off the hook for the remainder of their consent orders, which the bureau quietly terminated.
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A major financial services industry group focused on cybersecurity highlighted the need for planning ahead of 2030 and 2035 deadlines.
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BayFirst Financial in St. Petersburg shuttered a national small-dollar 7(a) loan program in August. Now the $2.4 billion institution, which has been one of the nation's most active SBA lenders over the past decade, is making a clean break from the business.
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A bipartisan bill offered Monday by Senate Banking Committee member Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., would force the Securities and Exchange Commission to update a 25-year-old threshold that holds small financial firms to higher regulatory standards.
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The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is seeking public comment on a survey of anti-money-laundering compliance costs from a variety of nonbanks, including casinos, insurers, lenders and other nonbanks, a possible precursor to deregulatory proposals down the road.
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Vis Raghavan's arrival last year has energized Citigroup's investment banking division, pushing his team to relentlessly pursue deals while cutting underperformers to make way for marquee hires.
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