Miriam Cross

The fintech Fair isn’t using terms like “sharia” or “Islam” in its messaging, but it is offering interest-free loans and socially responsible investments that comply with Islamic rules.

Till Financial provides a banking app for kids and their parents that encourages them to broker money transfer agreements and save toward their goals. As users age, Till will earn revenue by guiding them to more adult financial products.

Queensborough National Bank and Trust in Georgia is one of several banks aiming to recruit tech-savvy interns through a network of universities and fintech companies.

By migrating to Fiserv’s DNA core account processing platform, Citizens Bank & Trust in Guntersville, Ala., aims to give customers instant updates on balances and transactions.

Ally, Huntington, KeyBank and others are reimagining automated savings tools challenger banks have made popular.

The Baltimore community bank is experimenting with fee-based checking accounts that bundle cellphone protection, roadside assistance and other perks with an app that makes such services easier to use. Early returns are promising.

The joint checking account is similar to its individual checking feature, launched last April, and will target millennial couples in particular.

The company has changed the dynamics of its meetings, created diversity metrics and deployed software to make job descriptions gender-neutral.

The company, which provides workplace investing programs to banks, is giving employees a say in some decisions and working with partners to recruit women and people of color.

Small, often intangible quality-of-life perks are a big part of what makes some fintechs the best ones to work for.

Spiral is a self-described ethical banking app that encourages its customers to give back by letting them manage their charitable donations alongside their checking and savings.

MapleMark Bank in Dallas and the German fintech will let consumers choose from among three types of savings products including automated CD ladders that they can tailor to their own needs.

The New York company is seeding savings accounts offered by the challenger bank Goalsetter as a way to help minority communities as well as use technology to start building long-term relationships with young consumers.

Online and hybrid gatherings last year left shareholders demanding that companies make it easier to join the meetings, ask questions and vote this time around.

The American Fintech Council and the Financial Technology Association say they’ll promote responsible innovation, fair access to financial services and more. Their dozens of members include some of the biggest names in fintech.

Large banks and aggregator sites, like Bankrate, tend to outperform regional and community banks, but smaller institutions can compete by publishing valuable content and creating web pages for individual branches.

Cheese, a new challenger bank aimed at Asian Americans and immigrants to the U.S., has established a fund to support groups that serve communities affected by racist attacks and economic hardship during the pandemic.

Ten companies this week joined the American Fintech Council, which debuted March 3 after the Marketplace Lending Association and Online Lending Policy Institute combined.

The fintech will help these consumers set aside money in a tax-advantaged savings account that won’t jeopardize federal benefits tied to income.

Better Financial offers customers up to $5,000 per year in accident coverage, prescription drug discounts and medical debt negotiation to certain account holders.