The small community bank was bought up by crypto-focused investors and quickly repositioned to cater to tech innovators. Is this problematic or perfectly legitimate?

The top three countries have 861 combined fintech financings through June 2023.

A co-founder of Totem, a neobank for Native Americans, initiated legal action against his counterpart. Disputes are not uncommon in the startup world.

Despite ESG headwinds in Florida, Climate First Bank in St. Petersburg continues to make "green" loans and plans to show consumers how their purchases affect the environment.

Banks are holding their fintech partners to a higher compliance standard as regulatory scrutiny of banking-as-a-service increases.

Figure, Oportun and Brex are among the fintechs that have dropped their applications for a banking charter.

"Their criminal case is likely to move faster than this civil suit, and vindication there may also neutralize some of the negative publicity about which they complain," the judge in the case wrote.

There is an urgent need for a new class of security solutions that will allow people to retain control of their decentralized financial lives with confidence and safety.

Banks need to rethink their relationships with customers for an era in which transitioning to a new financial services provider carries far fewer costs.

White Clay and Quantalytix are two financial technology providers whose founders spent more than a decade in banking and are intimately familiar with the issues they try to solve.