Readers weigh in on big tech companies walking away from OCC's fintech charter, House committee wanting Facebook to halt Libra, calls to stop Congress from delaying CECL, and more.

The move to add dozens of branches, many in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, continues a strategic shift under retail banking chief Pablo Sanchez.

First Internet is poised to acquire an SBA lending team to help it meet an ambitious loan target for the year — a target the CEO plans on doubling in coming years.

Many might think that the technological disruption of the industry is already underway, but it’s likely that the most significant restructuring is still yet to come.

With millions of consumers switching their primary financial institution annually, many credit unions are faced with a quandary: come up with the money for digital offerings or risk losing a growth opportunity.

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters and Rep. Patrick McHenry, the top GOP panel member, said Facebook must testify about Project Libra.

Open-banking technology provider Token has secured $16.5 million in a strategic investment from investors that include Opera Tech Ventures, the venture arm of BNP Paribas.

There’s a long list of reasons traditional lenders haven't kept up with the needs of entrepreneurs, says Judith Erwin, the head of Grasshopper Bank in New York. One is not asking for enough feedback.

Investment in B2B fintech startups has been ramping up for the past couple of years, and in the next year we’ll start to see businesses reaping the benefits of the fintech wave, says Nvoicepay's Karla Friede.

The Dutch company is no longer a bank in some countries, but more of a digital matchmaker between consumers and financial products provided by third parties, explains innovation chief Benoit LeGrand.

The executives were hired for their focus on loan origination, portfolio management and securitization.

Dozens of companies, including Google and PayPal, met with OCC officials last year in part to discuss obtaining a new fintech charter, but many ultimately decided not to pursue it, according to sources. Here's why.

Both companies want money to be "programmable." But how to go about it is a matter of dispute.

Synapse is working to refine its application programming interfaces to meet know-your-customer and other complex requirements, but it's a tall order, the head of the back-office-services platform says.

The CEO of the digital-only bank Chime says it has quadrupled its membership in a year. So why doesn't his counterpart at Varo believe him?

Monzo has been adding roughly 200,000 users a month in the U.K., and is hoping to replicate that success as it launches in the U.S.

New project models and the cloud can serve as an alternative to payment and financial services technology strategies that benefit larger banks more than small institutions, argues Vinay Prabhakar, vice president of product at Volante.

Stress tests have come a long way since first unveiled to shore up confidence in banks. But some critics fear that proposals to make the system more efficient would compromise its safety.

In a study of 27 global markets, the U.S. ranked near the bottom for consumer use of fintech, raising questions about why Americans appear reluctant to dive in.

Successful digital transformations these days are done not as make-or-break moon-shots but as a continuing series of smaller projects, says Tata Consultancy Services' David Jordan.