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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.

Google explored the OCC's fintech charter, then walked away; the biggest changes in digital banking could be just ahead; 'Truist' rebrand prompts lawsuit by N.C. credit union; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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

Readers weigh in on big tech companies walking away from OCC's fintech charter, House committee wanting Facebook to halt Libra, calls to stop Congress from delaying CECL, and more.

Many might think that the technological disruption of the industry is already underway, but it’s likely that the most significant restructuring is still yet to come.

Dozens of companies, including Google and PayPal, met with OCC officials last year in part to discuss obtaining a new fintech charter, but many ultimately decided not to pursue it, according to sources. Here's why.