Acquiring the company, which has a namesake savings app, would allow the Silicon Valley lender to accelerate its plan to offer more consumer banking services. The deal comes less than six weeks after Oportun withdrew its application for a bank charter, which it plans to refile.

After more than a year of collaboration, the Minneapolis bank is buying the company to enhance its corporate expense and travel management offerings.

Patriot National Bancorp was exploring a digital pivot, and American Challenger Development Corp. had been seeking a bank charter in its quest to become open an all-digital bank. They decided it was quicker to join forces.

Mainstream lenders have long been reluctant to make short-term consumer loans because the costs involved make them expensive for borrowers. Upstart says its technology will enable partner banks to offer loans at annual percentage rates below 36%.

The data aggregator is recruiting partners such as Railsbank, Silicon Valley Bank and Marqeta for a project designed to make certain digital transactions easier to complete.

The bank is partnering with Anthemis to match investors with female entrepreneurs, who according to Findexable research attract just 1.5% of investment in the sector.

Northern Hills Federal Credit Union in South Dakota is one of several institutions testing tools that can deliver faster loan decisions, an edge they need against digital upstarts.

Hispanic adults are underbanked compared with their white counterparts, according to the Federal Reserve. Challenger banks such as Tend and Viva First are reaching out to this population with bilingual services and low-cost money transfers.

Digital upstarts like Square, Stripe and PayPal are invading community banks' turf by appealing to local merchants with a mix of electronic payments and lending. Small banks are fighting back by leaning into digital services while maintaining their personal touch.

With today’s generation of home buyers so rooted in a digital world, how will the financial services industry need to change to meet their needs? What new consumer technology will they need to adopt to meet consumers where they are? How will those approaches differ from how things have been done historically in the industry? Join us in a discussion with Blend’s Founder, Nima Ghamsari as we chat through how banks and financial institutions need to think through these questions.

Some big tech firms “have sought to gain greater control over the flow of money in our economy,” Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra told senators. His comments came after the agency demanded information from large tech companies about their payment offerings.

The California bank sued a former executive for allegedly taking trade secrets and using them to build a rival fintech. A recent interim ruling frees Aeldra Financial to move ahead with fundraising while the case continues.

Piermont Bank in New York expects to double its $347 million of assets in a year by extending working capital to financial technology companies. MainStreet Bancshares in Virginia is taking a different approach, hoping a new banking-as-a-service offering will help investors see it as more cutting-edge.

The state has a poor track record of managing customer-facing operations. It’s difficult to see an upside in the current push for a state-run bank — especially when neobanks are already offering the same services it would provide.

After Visa's deal to acquire Plaid fell through as a result of regulatory pressure, the data aggregator found new fintech partners including Square and Dwolla to support an account-to-account transfer service.

The 44 large bank and insurance company partners of the Fintech Innovation Lab are inviting startups whose technology can help them manage cybersecurity threats as well as handle climate change metrics and other growing needs to join the lab's next cohort.

Government must adapt supervision to account for fintechs, cryptocurrencies and other innovations. Otherwise it could contribute to a debacle like when it failed to grasp the impact that new financial instruments such as money market funds would have on traditional financial institutions.

The bank says it's an investor in and will refer clients to Trovata, which gathers transaction data directly from multiple banks to automate cash reporting, forecasting and analysis for midsize and large companies.

JAM Fintop's Banktech fund, which is backed by community banks, has invested in Monit, a small-business predictive analytics company. Two of the banks have expressed interest in using its product.