Unicomer Group, Latin America’s equivalent of Best Buy, has teamed up with YellowPepper to develop a digital credit app that acts as a financial services center for underbanked and unbanked consumers.

Meredith Fuchs, formerly the top lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says data aggregators like Plaid "have matured." She will help the company prepare for new data-sharing rules and its pending sale to Visa.

Meredith Fuchs, formerly the top lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says data aggregators like Plaid "have matured." She will help the company prepare for new data-sharing rules and its pending sale to Visa.

New research finds that it's become harder than ever to acquire new customers — and equally challenging to engage newly acquired ones.

New research finds that it's become harder than ever to acquire new customers — and equally challenging to engage newly acquired ones.

New research finds that it's become harder than ever to acquire new customers — and equally challenging to engage newly acquired ones

Providing core payment capabilities, like debit and credit or P2P, are a business necessity. But you must also have a host of complementary services and capabilities that surround these services, says Fiserv's Himanshu Patel.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is overstepping its authority in granting charters to fintechs and other companies that don’t take deposits.

A pilot program that would let banks, credit unions and challenger banks bid to offer financial services within rural and inner-city post offices could be a first step in serving the underbanked while also helping to shore up the U.S. Postal Service's finances.

Under the agreement, fintechs and their bank partners will have a safe legal harbor to offer loans, as long as their interest rates do not exceed 36% and they meet various other standards.

JPMorgan Chase is funding a two-year initiative in which Commonwealth, a nonprofit, will study the impact of artificial intelligence and other technologies on the financially vulnerable.

For Marqeta, the advancement of 3D Secure 2.0 in Europe presented an opportunity to design its own version of the online security protocol in order to claim ownership of the standard and provide more flexibility for its use with customers.

Jo Jagadish, who joined TD Bank in April as head of commercial products and payments innovation, spent her childhood moving from country to country, so she's used to a world without borders — the kind of world emerging from the capabilities of fintech and demands of the pandemic.

A pilot program that would let banks, credit unions and challenger banks bid to offer financial services within rural and inner-city post offices could be a first step in serving the underbanked while also helping to shore up the U.S. Postal Service's finances.

An obscure government initiative tied to Obamacare’s troubled online rollout could position Sen. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's running mate, as a key figure in modernizing government stimulus and disbursement payments.

A public-private partnership that has fewer rules and restrictions than the Paycheck Protection Program would save more small businesses.

Stripe is expanding its digital payment technology into new industries, and is also welcoming a series of notable executives with backgrounds that are mostly outside merchant technology. But they also have experience with much larger companies, a necessary skill as Stripe tries to grow out of its status as fintech upstart.

Thanks to the growing implementation of open banking, the same type of collaboration can be reached between bigtechs and fintechs.

Theorem is marketing its first-ever securitization of unsecured loans. It uses machine-learning technology to gauge the risk of default, a growing concern during the pandemic recession.

The card giant could pay $850 million in cash for the online small-business lender, according to a person familiar with the talks.