Will Hernandez

Colin Walsh, Varo’s chief executive, says the disruptor has hired several former regulatory officials to help in what has admittedly been “a difficult process.”

Provenance Blockchain, recently spun off from Mike Cagney's Figure Technologies, says it can help lenders trim 70% of mortgage settlement expenses through speedier processing and paperwork reduction.

Earnest hopes offering a streamlined process can help it thrive in a risky niche.

The British startup OakNorth sees U.S. community and regional banks as good prospects for its lending technology.

TD and several other banks are licensing credit underwriting and fraud prevention technology from the fintech Avant to get their digital-lending products to market faster.

Gateway Mortgage Group’s dream of being a national, diversified financial services player will hinge on its effort to turn a community bank into an online-only platform.

To generate revenue, SoLo Funds depends on consumers willing to front funds through its platform.

As N26 schedules its launch for midyear, it will face off against other startups and mobile-only spinoffs from incumbent financial institutions.

The internet giant's planned gaming service may create an omnichannel model for banks to emulate.

The system is designed to help banks deliver more personalized financial advice and is meant as a challenge to traditional bank technology vendors.

Susan Ehrlich, the fintech lender's new chief, discusses what she learned working at Amazon and Simple and how her firm is approaching consumer loans differently.

An executive at the Rhode Island company said the complexity of business lending remains an obstacle to switching to entirely automated, paperless operations.

The credit card network has teamed up with an ICBA unit and the fintech Urban FT to offer a payments services program tailored to community banks trying to keep pace with bigger banks.

CULedger and the computing giant will work to develop blockchain technologies, create new products and improve existing ones.

Gateway Mortgage Group says its launch of a digital-only bank is scheduled for this summer.

The digital lender and payments platform is tailoring its affinity banking services for a new market.

Digital-asset companies will try to develop a less adversarial relationship with the state's securities regulator, who stopped several startups from selling digital currencies as investments.

Crypto exchanges are adopting anti-fraud surveillance tools as they attempt to root out pump-and-dump schemes, insider trading and bogus orders.

The drudgery of filling out forms and changing bills prevents many customers from swapping banks. One fintech has simplified that exchange, and banks are willing to pay it to deliver them new customers.

ComplyAdvantage, Cinnamon and Zoovu recently raised millions of dollars to fuel expansion of their automated risk management, data-scanning and customer service products geared toward financial services companies.