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Digital-first lenders more than doubled their market share in the last four years, according to a report by Experian.

The Miami unit of Chile’s Banco de Credito e Inversiones is acquiring Executive National Bank. It bought Miami's TotalBank last year.

The Herb Wegner Memorial Awards will be handed out in February to a trio of long-time industry leaders.

Members of the House Financial Services Committee cited leveraged lending, cybersecurity and the switch to a new interest rate benchmark among potential systemic risks that keep them up at night.

Visa has launched an online portal for fintechs to explore payments technology and find resources such as shortcuts to applying for fintech licenses.

One Republican lawmaker went so far as to suggest that Congress should try to block the central bank's effort, but Democrats said FedNow will promote competition in real-time payments.

Elder financial exploitation is a vast and growing problem in the U.S., and one that presents difficult policy challenges for law enforcement and banks.

Klar has completed two funding rounds — one for equity and one for debt — raising over $57 million in funding, including Santander’s InnoVentures as an equity investor.

Along with the largest number of credit unions and cooperatives to ever receive funding in a single grant round, several Puerto Rican cooperatives also received the maximum amount available to assist with hurricane recovery efforts.

Here are companies whose strong visions and timely ideas commanded attention at the technology conference in New York this week.