The most likely picks for comptroller of the currency have pushed tech-driven approaches to financial inclusion and anti-money-laundering, and would bring new perspective to regulating cryptocurrencies.

Fast has received a new round of funding from backers including Stripe.

U.S. banks and payment companies are looking to Europe's example to see how open banking can push the market beyond its reliance on credit and debit cards.

U.S. banks and payment companies are looking to Europe's example to see how open banking can push the market beyond its reliance on credit and debit cards.

The digital bank for students, which recently merged with a blank-check company, can tap its new source of capital to diversify and pursue more white-label partnerships.

Greg Carmichael said lightly regulated challenger banks pose a long-term threat to traditional banks, echoing comments JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon made last week.

There’s a dynamic balance between the innovation and resiliency benefits of the messy, creative ferment of many smaller competitors, and an oligopoly or monopoly’s scale economies, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

The Paris-based fintech has added a range of extra features in recent years following the advent of PSD2 and open banking in the EU.

LendingClub, poised to be the first U.S. online lender to buy a bank, says the transaction will be completed in early February now that it has received approvals from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve.

During the past year we’ve seen some ingenious, innovative solutions addressing financial inclusion, and that will need to continue, says GPS CFO Richard Hodgson.