While digital pay innovation was once seen as a “nice-to-have” benefit, it's quickly becoming integral to business survival, says LendingFront's Jorge Sun.

Within the payments industry, Wirecard as a brand has become almost like Enron — but an exec at Railsbank says the German processor's fall from grace masks talent and innovation that can thrive elsewhere and help forge new paths to financial services.

The success of some fintechs in getting bank charters this year only underscores how onerous the process remains for many others. That’s unlikely to change unless policymakers reconsider what it means to be a bank.

The complaint charges the fintech startup with misleading customers about the interest they'd receive on deposits and the level of access to their money. It seeks an unspecified amount of consumer relief in addition to other remedies.

PCI has issued guidelines that are helpful, says PXP Financial's Koen Vanpraet.

The accelerator has enabled Los Angeles-based fintech Be Money to relaunch itself as Daylight and bring to market a transgender-inclusive preferred name card.

The Trump administration said it has picked Brian Brooks, who has led the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in an acting capacity, to be considered by the Senate for a five-year term. But it is unclear whether he would stay on during the incoming administration of Joe Biden.

Italian technology firm Nexi has dedicated about $15 billion over the past two months to shore up its position in the European payment processing market, a local burst of consolidation that exists inside a larger wave of similar mergers globally.

Jobs will be harder to find for graduates, and there are new underwriting platforms that can better predict students' future income in their chosen field.

Mastercard says it has been notified the Department of Justice has approved its planned acquisition of data aggregator Finicity, putting the card brand on track to close the deal before the end of the year.