Will Hernandez

The automaker's finance arm joins Avant, OnDeck Capital and SoFi in the system, which is designed to help verify loan applicants' identities.

The bank says it has restored access, but it hasn’t explained how a fire-suppression system at one facility could cause a nationwide outage across all of its channels, or how its system as a whole could have been left so vulnerable to the incident.

Customers reported being unable to access online banking, mobile banking or their debit cards.

Among the lessons David Hijirida learned at the online giant: Companies are often so focused on competitors that they neglect their own customers.

The 35-day partial government closing was a stark reminder that many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and financial firms need to help solve that problem, the mobile banking firm’s CEO says.

Many bankers say they’re more comfortable with using artificial intelligence behind the scenes, but others — including Synchrony and Wells Fargo — insist AI can be used to interact with customers if it’s deployed properly.

Spring Labs is spearheading a group of prominent fintech lenders to use a blockchain-based, peer-to-peer network to share consumer information to help with ID verification on loan applications.

Timothy Mayopoulos is back in the mortgage industry, becoming the new president of the digital mortgage technology developer Blend, months after leaving his post as Fannie Mae’s CEO.

The head of Fiserv hinted that it will pitch the point-of-sale platform Clover, which it would get in the First Data deal, to community banks as a way to defend their small-business market share from Square.

Efforts to build better connections to bank customer data, trade digital currency and explore artificial intelligence for security and compliance purposes were some of the biggest draws of fundraising for U.S. startups.