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Stripe is expanding its digital payment technology into new industries, and is also welcoming a series of notable executives with backgrounds that are mostly outside merchant technology. But they also have experience with much larger companies, a necessary skill as Stripe tries to grow out of its status as fintech upstart.

Banks and other financial firms say the proposal to reverse restrictions on investment advisers does not go far enough. Meanwhile, investor advocates say it would loosen necessary protections.

ACH network steward Nacha says Visa has been added to its list of partners for a payment information exchange it is creating to help credentialed service providers share and manage electronic payments information for faster and more secure processing.

The rapid move online boosts false positives, false negatives and actual fraud, says Adara's Nguyen Nguyen.

A second-term Trump administration would likely continue its deregulatory efforts, focus on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's exit from conservatorship, and seek to facilitate fintech participation in the banking system.

Dhivya Suryadevara will help the online payments company as it expands globally; the CEO has kept the bank moving forward during the pandemic while competitors have faltered.

Chargeback requests have surged since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as airlines have canceled flights, performers have postponed concerts and supply chain disruptions have delayed the delivery of many goods.

From student-run branches to courses on credit, budgeting and more, one of the industry's longest-running partnerships is being upended as districts across the country move to virtual learning.

It was an attention-grabbing decision when Facebook hired PayPal's president, David Marcus, in 2014. At the time, Facebook didn't have much of a dedicated payments business to speak of; when people thought of spending money on Facebook, they typically thought of in-app purchases in Farmville.

Thanks to the growing implementation of open banking, the same type of collaboration can be reached between bigtechs and fintechs.