Fintech

First Commerce Credit Union's agreement to buy Citizens Bank brings to 14 the number of deals this year in which a credit union is buying a bank.

Giants like Facebook, JPMorgan Chase and Walmart are all pushing blockchain for myriad use cases, and now Wells Fargo has joined the fray with its own spin on the distributed ledger technology.

A proposal to define wages-on-demand would protect consumers and serve as an example for others.

Private Bancorp of America is the latest bank to report a borrower issue in connection with a high-profile fraud case tied to liquor licenses.

Credit unions are upping their involvement in all things related to payments in an attempt to bolster the bottom line and ensure they keep up with the competition.

The CFPB’s enforcement action against Maxi suggests that the CFPB may more aggressively enforce certain rules going forward, writes Jeffrey Alberts and Dustin Nofziger of Pryor Cashman.

Goldman Sachs, Elevar Equity and QED Investors are among institutions financing Mexican lenders that fund SMEs.

The company agreed to buy Tennessee Community Bank Holdings, which has operations just west of Nashville.

Mission Lane, which was spun off from LendUp in December, said Monday that Shane Holdaway took the helm in August after roughly a year serving as CEO of Barclays' U.S. consumer bank. The upstart lender also announced that it has raised $200 million in equity funding.

Plaid, the San Francisco-based financial technology infrastructure provider, has received strategic investments from Mastercard and Visa as part of a $250 million round of funding. Plaid did not disclose the two networks' specific investments.