Penny Crosman

A new group called MoreThanFair aims to establish the lines between fair and unfair lending, to set best practices for the use of AI in lending and to lessen the stigma of fintech lenders.

Regulators have been sending out warning signals about the partnerships between banks and fintechs. Does this mean banks and fintechs have to change what they're doing?

The three challenger banks have defied the odds and created business models that have made them net positive in a market where fewer than 5% of startups are making money.

The bank received 341 technology patents in the first half of the year and says it has more patents than any other financial services company. However, executives have acknowledged that they aren't all usable.

The Los Angeles fintech, which hosts a marketplace where people lend to one another, is moving forward and working to set up a "lending DAO" as it deals with questions about its tipping model.

After a decade of multibillion-dollar tech investments by banks, efficiency ratios have begun to improve and headcounts drop, some industry watchers say. Skeptics counter that other reasons are at play and that it's all hard to measure.

Their chatbots are diverting calls away from call centers and helping bring in deposits, the banks say, as the adoption, maturity and usefulness of the technology improve. 

"Animal welfare scores low in priority at many financial institutions" in the U.S., says Merel van der Mark, animal welfare and finance program manager for Sinergia Animal, an organization based in Brazil that has been maintaining a ranking of how banks around the world perform on several measures of ethics with regard to animals.

It's surprising given the cryptocurrency's volatility, but the New York Yankees, the Houston Rockets, MVB Bank and Vantage Bank are among the companies that have begun letting employees invest some of each paycheck in bitcoin in recent months.