GradFin offers advisory services to Americans who want assistance with their student loans. The acquisition is part of the Cleveland bank’s strategy of adding niche digital businesses.

Increasing numbers of banks are now letting business customers do their banking within their existing accounting and workplace software.

The technology giant is partnering with a fintech firm to deploy $25 million of deposits at minority-owned banks, community development financial institutions and other mission-focused lenders. It’s part of a broader effort by the iPhone maker to combat systemic racism.

Shortly after the reveal of Stripe Financial Connections, the CEO of its longtime partner Plaid took to Twitter to accuse the company of exploiting their relationship to build the new service. At stake is the growing market for digital transactions.

Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures Management is leading a $185 million funding round for Canada’s Neo Financial Technologies, propelling it to a valuation of more than $1 billion as it plans expansion into mortgages.

A new product called Financial Connections links businesses directly to customers' banks, giving the payment technology vendor a feature that makes it a direct competitor to data-fueled fintechs.

Long Game, which Truist acquired for an undisclosed sum, allows consumers to set savings goals and earn extra cash by playing casino-style lottery games.

Genesis Financial will use Nova Credit’s bank account data analysis to approve credit to applicants with little or no credit bureau files.

The U.K. seized 2 million pounds ($2.61 million) from a London-based fintech firm, saying that the funds were linked to a $150 million U.S. wire fraud conspiracy.

To appeal to a younger audience, credit unions are teaming up with third parties that can help them offer Bitcoin accounts, real-time payments and other cutting-edge services.

Britain’s prior approach to regulating financial technology has been held up as the de facto bar, industry executives say — but on crypto, its more risk-averse outlook has stymied the sector’s growth. 

Observers say that while Michael Barr may not be progressives' first choice to be the Fed's top regulator, he has gained their support given the importance of the post and the pressure of looming midterm elections. What his exact policy prescriptions and priorities in the post-Dodd-Frank world will be, however, is unclear.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently decided to put an official in charge of the rising number of small and midsize national banks that partner with fintechs or have nontraditional business plans. The agency’s goal is to establish a team that understands cutting-edge technologies and establishes consistent oversight policies in response.

To ensure authenticity, Community First Credit Union had its AI-powered voice system learn by communicating with Spanish-speaking employees who could teach it local terms and mannerisms.

Walmart named PayPal Chief Financial Officer John Rainey as its new finance chief, turning to a company outsider as it seeks to build a financial technology venture and a membership program.

"With ACH payments there's a latency in how they are processed; it can take two to five days. Things can happen," warns Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard.

Job stress is multiplied by artillery strikes, evacuations, air raids and atrocities.

April and Column Tax are among the startups capitalizing on the idea that taxes are part of a person’s financial life and banks are most suited to help with tax preparation and filing.

Two U.K. fintech companies are exploring sale options after sanctions on their Russian billionaire backers have left them struggling to find funding.