Companies on the Best Places to Work in Fintech list offer sabbaticals or generous vacation time, which helps attract young talent and lets veteran employees re-energize.

Breaking barriers to education unites the team at Mpower Financing, an international student loan company with employees from more than a dozen countries that is ranked No. 1 on this year's Best Places to Work in Fintech.

The 50 companies that made American Banker’s annual list are being recognized for establishing strong workplace cultures, offering robust benefits packages and giving employees the room to do their jobs well.

Get your notepad ready: these are the speakers whose insights you’ll want to remember at this year’s event in Austin.

The payments startup Bolt Financial is cutting staff, its CEO said in a message to employees on Wednesday. 

Under the deal, participating members of the BancAlliance network will be able to buy interests in loans originated on the digital lender’s platform.

The state of Connecticut recently handed the small-dollar marketplace loan provider a cease-and-desist order, but Rodney Williams says his company is getting much-needed emergency funds into marginalized communities at a low total cost, and that the rules need to be rewritten.

The startup, whose name suggests its purpose of helping companies attract and retain employees, lets companies offer cash incentives to talented recruits that are vested over several years, motivating them to stay in their jobs for a while.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., says she and Sen. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., plan to release draft legislation next week that would establish a supervisory entity for emerging financial technologies and new rules for stablecoin issuers.

Q2 Holdings, a banking-software provider, is weighing options including a sale after receiving takeover interest, according to people familiar with the matter.