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The fintech, which has applied for a California banking license and federal deposit insurance, aims to become a full-service online bank for 1 million Americans by year-end, says Ron Oliveira, its U.S. chief executive.

Timothy Collia will step down from the Portsmouth, N.H.-based institution later this year. A search for his successor is already underway.

Changes to CDFI Fund regulations could make it significantly easier to raise the capital required to get a new institution off the ground.

Fattmerchant is capitalizing on the subscription concept by taking a majority stake in Canadian billing software firm Fusebill, which competes with Chargebee and Chargify in the fast-growing arena of managing subscription revenue for merchants.

Liquidity sensitivity drives companies to procure tools to help them determine and execute the right strategies to get paid faster, says Bottomline Technologies' Jessica Cheney.

Ant Group created an investment advisory platform on its Alipay app, allowing companies that offer robo adviser services to reach its 1 billion users.

NCUA Chairman Todd Harper has reiterated his call for CUs not to garnish members' econimic impact payments, while the industry's largest PAC has resumed campaign contributions after a brief pause.

Banks, credit card companies and digital payments processors are nervously watching the push to create an electronic alternative to the paper bills Americans carry in their wallets, or what some call a digital dollar and others call a Fedcoin.

While the Fed decided not to extend capital easing for banks, it is working on a longer-term fix for calculating banks’ supplementary leverage ratio; the agency is looking at whether the company’s debit card policies for merchants are anticompetitive.

Twelve months after the public health emergency began, executives say it forced them to reexamine where employees work, retail strategies, office layouts and more.