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Sunil Chandra's job will be to guide the fintech's international expansion. It says 12 banks are using its small-business lending platform, including three in the United States.

Payoneer found its niche providing technology for Amazon, Google and Facebook to deliver mass payouts to independent contractors, but the company has added options for small U.S. businesses to send payments to vendors and suppliers globally.

With financial institutions relying more and more on cloud computing services, Washington is increasingly focused on the concentration of industry data in the big three technology giants.

A federal judge blocked state regulators from suing the agency over its new charter, but it’s still unclear whether fintechs would even apply.

A new registry aims to make it easier for credit unions to set up voice banking capabilities, but it remains to be see if consumer demand is there for this service.

A federal judge blocked state regulators from suing the agency over its new charter, but it’s still unclear whether fintechs would even apply.

High-tech heavyweights like Google, Amazon and Apple have tied payments to broader financial services, added to the view that banks are less relevant, writes Polyient Labs' Brad Robertson.

Banks have to be more resourceful with technology and less dependent on high interest rates.

It took a few years for mobile wallets to get past the aura of just a "cool technology" looking for a problem to solve, but Google Pay and its peers are clearly finding their niche as a way to embed payments with customer engagement tools.

The bank is moving a large analytics program and a massive amount of data into Google's public cloud, which its tech chief says is more efficient, secure and better able to handle spikes in demand.

Virtual assistants are being brought forward into a variety of other internet-of-things devices such as automobiles and appliances, with the goal of finding new moments where consumers are willing to spend money — sometimes guided by machine learning.

Banks need to mitigate potential bias in algorithmic predictive models using artificial intelligence, as regulators are weighing how to oversee the emerging technology.

Banks are right to fear the big tech companies that are eyeing financial services, according to Monish Kumar at Boston Consulting Group, who offers suggestions on how traditional lenders can protect their turf.

Banks and fintechs such as payment apps depend on one another a lot more than their marketing messaging would lead you believe. The question is no longer whether they can partner, but how they can work together to optimize those synergies for one another, writes Flywire's Mike Massaro.

What Facebook really needs is another heavyweight like Amazon or Google to help spur cryptocurrency competition.

Fraud targeting accounts payable departments had been on the rise to begin with, but a new sense of urgency has taken hold in the wake of a recent incident that cost Facebook and Google $100 million.

What Facebook really needs is another heavyweight like Amazon or Google to help spur cryptocurrency competition.

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Facebook’s Libra shows technology companies are a far greater threat to a bank than other banks, argues Token.io’s Marten Nelson.

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