EasyPay Finance, a fintech partner of TAB Bank, has been accused of providing high-rate loans through pet stores that source animals from abusive dog breeders. The bank's CEO says he didn’t know the dogs come from facilities with histories of abuse, and is talking to the Humane Society about the issue.

The data aggregator and challenger bank have formed a partnership to let customers of Green Dot’s mobile banking app use any of the 6,000 fintech apps in Plaid’s ecosystem.

The fintech will work with the bank’s largest clients to spread their cash among U.S. branches of non-U.S. institutions, helping them obtain higher yields while diversifying counterparty risk.

Russia's invasion has disrupted life at Lithuanian startup Paysera, which has a dozen employees in Ukraine, including Yevhen Matasar, who fled from Kyiv to a nearby town where he still does some programming when he can. "This is a very difficult situation … it's helpful to be able to continue to work," Matasar said.

CEO Nitin Mhatre, who joined the Massachusetts bank in 2021, said that any M&A deal is at least a year away. For now, the bank is working with fintechs as a way to bolster its balance sheet and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Best known as a maker of ATMs and point-of-sale devices, Diebold Nixdorf is launching a new cloud platform to support merchants and their customers as transactions become more hardware-agnostic.

Revolut’s Chief Revenue Officer Alan Chang is leaving the U.K. financial technology startup for a new cryptocurrency venture and is seeking to raise roughly $100 million in financing.

Companies with staff in the war-torn country are relocating some and supporting those who choose to stay.

Zeta Services, a banking and credit card technology unicorn, has raised $30 million from investors including Mastercard, and the two announced a five-year collaboration to help customers launch credit card services.  

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