Five years after going public, with growth slowing and the stock trounced, losing 57% in just the last three months, investors are demanding a clear blueprint for how Adyen can get its mojo back.

The Federal Trade Commission penalized the finance app Brigit after alleging it misled customers about being able to access "up to" $250 in cash advances in exchange for a monthly fee and made it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions.

This week the Small Business Administration followed through with a controversial policy change by granting access to its flagship 7(a) program to three additional nonbank lenders. These new participants vowed to ramp up their small-business lending efforts.

The 16-year-old site struggled to monetize, but experts said personal financial management products should focus on engagement.

Intuit is shutting down one of the most popular personal financial management sites of its time — which attracted millions of users despite its counterintuitive approach to accessing consumer data.

Charlie, a neobank marketed to people 62+, and Carefull, which partners with financial institutions, recently raised their Series A's. A third, called EverSafe, is embarking on its first fundraise.

The tech billionaire wants the former Twitter's users to manage all of their finances on the site — the sooner, the better.

The neobank is also benefiting from its product diversity.

In October's roundup of top banking news: Navy Federal's contract with the Department of Defense remains in limbo, check fraud takes a bite out of Regions Financial's third-quarter earnings, a Community Reinvestment Act rule gets finalized and more.

By purchasing the merchant acquirer Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems, the fintech Stax has rounded out its offerings in a way that echoes the structure of larger payment companies.