The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a judge to impose a penalty on Ripple that roughly matches the amount of profit the agency estimates Ripple and its leaders made from sales of XRP, which the SEC says are unregistered securities.

The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based fintech is working with two Michigan credit unions to pilot a service that allows consumers to jointly save for purchases.

The $12.1 billion-asset DCU launched the loan platform in 2022, and has seen volume jump by close to $600 million from when talks began in 2019 to last year.

First Busey closes acquisition of Merchants and Manufacturers Bank; Stax co-founders launch a new credit-scoring tool; UMB's marketing chief takes on consumer banking; and more in the weekly banking news roundup.

The Federal Reserve issued an enforcement action against Mode Eleven Bancorp, the holding company for Summit National Bank, which engages in banking as a service.

The CFPB should change its proposal and allow fintechs and other financial services companies the same freedom to innovate that entrenched large banks already enjoy.

The steady drumbeat of consent orders against banks that offer banking as a service continues, with regulators telling banks to keep a closer eye on their fintech partners' compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering rules.

The proposed data sharing rules could create opportunities for forward-thinking financial institutions to better serve their customers and meet ever-growing expectations for digital finance.

There are lingering questions related to the agency's 1033 proposal, including how to balance access to information with fraud prevention. But financial institutions should look for ways that access to additional data could help them create better products.

The bank is launching KeyVAM, a virtual account management offering it designed with fintech Qolo. Both companies said the nature of the relationship was as important as the technology it produced.