Will Hernandez

Taking a page from fintech competitors, banks have worked to enrich the small-business app experience.

Startups are increasingly expanding into new areas with their bank partners in an effort to broaden their customer base and bring products to market faster.

Outages last week at Chime and Varo Money have executives on the defensive.

The Toronto-based bank has hired 1,200 people across five countries in North and South America to focus on digital features.

The payments processor Galileo suffered what it described as an "operational incident" that caused more than 24 hours of outages at the fintechs Chime and Varo Money.

The fintech provides API support to Chime, Varo Money and other challenger banks.

Grasshopper Bank and Mercury are each targeting customers that face limited options in the market.

Community banks and credit unions are eager to innovate, but technology upgrades must be done first, says Bruce Lowthers, FIS banking solutions president.

The company has rolled out an online platform for firms considering marketplace loans as an asset class.

A digital currency firm has been accused of recruiting actors to pretend to be Comerica and Mastercard employees, writing a fake prospectus and taking other steps to make it look like the two U.S. companies were its partners in an investment venture.

Though synthetic identity fraud is down across the industry, there's been an uptick in such attacks targeting credit unions.

A combination of mutual and clashing interests has driven many players — credit unions, big banks, community banks and fintechs — to offer high-interest, digital-only savings and checking.

Sunil Chandra's job will be to guide the fintech's international expansion. It says 12 banks are using its small-business lending platform, including three in the United States.

A combination of mutual and clashing interests has driven many players — big banks, community banks, credit unions and fintechs — to offer high-interest, digital-only savings and checking.

The company will use the funds to increase research and development efforts as well as expand its global presence.

Surety's first online bank, booyah, is aimed at college students and young grads.

TransferWise once marketed itself as Robin Hood-style rival to banks. Now it sees itself as an ally.

Digital-first lenders more than doubled their market share in the last four years, according to a report by Experian.

It is the bank’s second big gift to the nonprofit Financial Health Network in recent years, with this one earmarked for a financial solutions lab.

The app, which started with mobile gaming, will now integrate itself with some of the most popular video games on the market such as Fortnite.