SoFi Technologies and MoneyLion offer a slew of banking services. Will this enable them to grab significant market share from traditional institutions?

Though it's one of the largest U.S. credit unions at $15 billion of assets, the organization still works with a number of fintechs to live up to its name.

Ramp, a startup that offers corporate cards and other finance tools to businesses, raised $750 million in a funding round that valued the fintech at $8.1 billion.

A growing chorus of voices seems to share the view of former New York banking regulator Maria Vullo, who once said, “Toddlers play in sandboxes. Adults play by the rules.” But any movement away from the collaborative development of regulations for new financial services products would be a setback for consumer choice.

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.