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The lender, which uses existing credit balances to fund installment loans, has linked to Samsung Pay and plans other partnerships in the future to build a global merchant network.

New data from American Banker finds that use cases for intelligent automation are growing across banks and credit unions alike, such as fraud and lending.

Businesses accepting payments in stablecoins on a public blockchain are making vast amounts of data available to their competitors. For the technology to really take off, a privacy-preserving solution is needed.

Affirm and FICO earlier this year took the first steps to incorporate buy now/pay later loans into consumer's credit reports. But it will be some time before lenders start making credit decisions based on the short-term installments, even if holdouts like Afterpay and Klarna decide to report to the credit bureaus.

The stablecoin issuer said revenue and reserve income increased due to more stablecoins in circulation after its IPO and the passing of the GENIUS Act.

The Toronto-based bank has promoted Kevin Li to take over as head of its American operations. He will succeed Shawn Beber, who is retiring.

Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, rose to 3.1%, up from 2.9% in June.

The bank teller, Khalila Cooper, embezzled $34,000 over a six-month period. She has been banned from the banking industry for her "personal dishonesty," the Fed said.

The CFPB must unequivocally state that consumers own their financial data and prohibit financial institutions from monetizing access to it. No one, not even the biggest bank in the country, should dictate with whom consumers can share their data.

The Providence, Rhode Island-based bank has hired Aunoy Banerjee as its next CFO, a role that will be vacated by State Street hire John Woods. Banerjee is currently the CFO of Barclays Bank PLC.

The plea marks the beginning of the end of the case over the $50 billion collapse in May 2022 of stablecoin TerraUSD.

The Ohio-based bank opened its first branch in Alabama, with plans to open 14 more over the next three years.

The crypto-focused firm's OCC trust bid would shift supervision from New York to Washington at a time when regulators are signaling openness to fintechs engaging in banking

Trump appointed Antoni, who has been vocal about his concerns with BLS jobs data and revisions, in a Truth Social post Monday. The position is subject to Senate confirmation.

Theft of paper checks and their use in identity theft constitute a major blind spot in the private sector's fraud detection networks. Banks and regulators need to come together to find solutions.