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Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt said the agency is poised to examine alternatives to how a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac assess creditworthiness of home buyers, including seeking public comment on the issue later this fall.

Ben Carson doesn't want big banks to worry so much about being penalized from mortgage lending errors.

British regulators are touting the success of their so-called regulatory sandbox. Their American counterparts have been unable to agree on a comprehensive scheme to foster innovation.

Palm scanners for employee log-ins has not only increased data security, but it's also cut down the time employees were spending on authentication procedures.

Though they won’t name names, fintech leaders claim tier-one U.S. banks string them along, fail to communicate, don’t pay anything and, worst of all, out-and-out steal intellectual property.

Increased investor appetite and the emergence of specialized debt ratings are expected to spur demand, and community banks are looking for ways to fund expansion and hedge against future economic downturns.

India’s push to build a broad biometrics-based consumer identity database—now 1 billion strong—has been a boon to Paytm and other mobile payments providers leveraging Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the open-architecture structure supported by India’s government.

On Jun. 30, 2017. Dollars in thousands.

On Jun. 30, 2017. Dollars in thousands.

The company, which will officially report results later this week, took hits tied to its planned spinoff of BankMobile and losses tied to an overseas investment.