Citibanamex is developing data-sharing tools to enable fintechs to become its partners — before they can become competitors.

Individual stock trading may seem far removed from these companies' core payments business, but the service could fatten account balances and increase customer engagement.

It’s been going on in Europe for some time, but more U.S. banks are working with retailers, health care providers and other companies behind the scenes to offer loans, cards and other financial services.

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The Fed, FDIC and OCC have issued guidance that says community banks should consider risk factors such as financial strength and business experience when evaluating potential fintech partners.

Some credit unions are leaning heavily on tech partners to speed payments and loan decisions, offer online financial planning sessions and deploy virtual assistant technology developed at MIT.

Mary Daly called for new partnerships among fintechs, banks and community groups aimed at improving long-standing inequities in the financial system.

In combining with the special-purpose acquisition company InterPrivate III Financial Partners, the fintech says it will have more than $400 million to pour into marketing campaigns and invest in new technology.

CEO Thomas Cangemi is pushing to modernize a bank that for decades was focused largely on multifamily lending. The company has already agreed to buy the mortgage lender Flagstar Bancorp and its partnership with Figure Technologies, a blockchain-focused fintech, has the potential to make that acquisition more productive.

Credijusto, the first fintech in Mexico to buy a bank, plans to cater to a market that traditional banks often overlook: smaller businesses engaged in commerce between the two countries.

The size of the financial commitments was not disclosed, but they add to a $425 million fundraising round that the data aggregator announced earlier this year.

The Los Angeles company is bundling a wide range of services like Digit, Dave, Chime, Wealthfront and Moneylion to compete with traditional banks on more fronts.

Fintechs were almost five times more likely than traditional lenders to be involved with suspicious loans issued through the U.S. government’s Paycheck Protection Program, according to a new study.

New York Community Bancorp says it will invest in Figure Technologies, which has developed an open source distributed ledger. The bank plans to use the technology to cut costs in mortgages and payments and promote financial inclusion.

Nu Pagamentos, the Brazilian fintech backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is planning an initial public offering of more than $2 billion on the Nasdaq for the end of this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

The fintech startup Aspiration is in talks to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm in a transaction that’s slated to value the combined entity at more than $2 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The bank’s decision to offer home improvement loans directly will not have a material impact on profits at the Atlanta-based fintech, according to GreenSky.

It may seem odd that Citigroup has created an online lending platform that matches small businesses with minority-run and other banks for no financial benefit. Yet company executives and observers say it makes sense.

Upgrade, a lending startup that counts former LendingClub executive Renaud Laplanche as a co-founder, raised $105 million in a funding round that values the company at more than $3.3 billion.

The $119 million-asset Ergo Bank in Wisconsin, which is working with the fintech Neocova, says artificial intelligence and modern data management are attainable for even the smallest financial institutions — and essential to competing with larger banks for consumers.