Penny Crosman

The bank’s distributed ledger for private equity deals can now provide nodes to auditors, so they can easily access documents and data for their annual reviews.

Ken Rees at Elevate Credit calls payday lending "the roach motel of financial products" and says his alternative has helped subprime borrowers get back on their feet.

Fundbox is testing a payments and credit network for small businesses and their business clients that may offer an alternative to traditional lenders, credit card issuers and supplier financing.

American Express Ventures has become an investor in the startup EverCompliant, which helps financial institutions root out e-commerce websites backed by terrorists and drug cartels that are laundering money through payments-processing networks.

Many workers in the technology departments across a range of industries describe behavior that may fall short of a legal definition of sexual harassment, but is still disturbing and could contribute to low employee morale and high turnover.

OCBC Bank in Singapore has seen a 35% reduction in false positives in its tests of artificial intelligence-based anti-money-laundering software. Other banks could follow its lead, though there are regulatory and customer-protection questions.

Franklin Synergy and MidFirst both plan to deploy the online lending platform, which according to its creator can render loan decisions in just under three minutes.

The venture capital firm Anthemis seeded 21 fintech startups in its first discretionary fund, which raised $106 million. It favors management teams made up of people from all walks of life who have fresh ideas about shaking up banking and insurance.

Disruptors would get a powerful new competitor if Amazon began offering checking accounts, but such a move would also validate the notion that fintechs are the future.

TransUnion’s analysis of credit card applications and transactions finds fraudsters continue to steal more, but the rate of increase is slowing.