Visa and Mastercard are making it easier for AI agents to make autonomous payments within large language models, while fintechs such as Robinhood and Coinbase are opening their doors to those same agents to keep customers within their ecosystem. Payment experts say that puts banks on the defensive.

The AI-powered fintech accused the neobank and buy now, pay later lender of misappropriating its trade secrets and breaching its license and loan sale agreements.

Capital Community Bank is preparing to launch its fintech-focused rebrand by the end of this month.

The corporate finance fintech now has a $44 billion valuation and is building out an AI token spend management offering for its 7,000-plus enterprise customers.

The bank tech provider sold off its U.S. mid-market banking business, including a core used by hundreds of U.S. banks, to a branch of Constellation Software.

The agency is in discussions with the rent-rewards fintech regarding how it handled a card changeover after Wells Fargo ended its partner bank contract early.

Joseph Sanberg was handed a 168-month prison sentence for two counts of wire fraud after the celebrity-backed ecofintech collapsed last year.

Belgian prosecutors say they're finalizing charges over €500 million in suspect transactions. Wise calls the case, like its U.S. run-ins, a routine matter.

Fintechs grew four times faster than incumbent banks to generate 4% of last year's total global financial services revenue.

The narrative of fintechs as dramatic disrupters of traditional finance is wearing thin these days. More and more established fintech firms have discovered the value of respectability, and deemed it to be worth the cost.

The digital bank made its SoFiUSD stablecoin available to all members on Wednesday and plans to launch tokenized deposits in the near future.

The brokerage fintech launched agentic trading and an agentic credit card today that will allow AI agents to trade equities and make credit card purchases on customers' behalf. It comes just weeks after OpenAI rolled out its own personal finance tool.

The crypto exchange, which closed its original direct deposit service in late 2024, has brought it back for users to set up automated digital asset investing.

JPMorgan Payments processes about $12 trillion in payments per day globally. It is also the largest credit card issuer and merchant acquirer in the country. But to stay on top, the banking behemoth has made it its business to work with, and think like, nimbler fintechs.

An automated alert system auto-closed "a very high percentage" of suspicious-activity flags at the bank, the OCC said.

The central bank said it had a new proposal for its so-called skinny accounts, right after the White House ordered essentially the same thing. Coincidence?

The business banking fintech, which recently received conditional approval for a de novo bank charter, now has a $5.2 billion valuation.

AI is being used to help investigate red flags and to chat with criminals to find out more about their tactics.

The White House issued an executive order Tuesday requesting that the Federal Reserve review access to payment accounts for fintechs and digital asset firms.