Fintech

Widespread card acceptance was key to keeping small businesses afloat during the pandemic and will be crucial to helping consumers and businesses get the economy booming again, says the National Taxpayers Union's Thomas Aiello.

The Alviere finance platform has entered a partnership with B2B fintech Currencycloud to offer its clients a multicurrency e-wallet for cross-border business payments.

The Los Angeles bank's service, offered in partnership with the fintech Extend, enables card controls and uses tokenized account numbers to improve security.

Social Finance is edging deeper into cryptocurrencies, allowing its customers to redeem rewards earned through the company’s app for bitcoin or Ethereum.

Shopkeepers and other establishments say banks' costs have fallen substantially in recent years but interchange prices have held steady since the Federal Reserve capped them in 2010.

Shop owners and other establishments say banks' costs have fallen substantially in recent years but interchange prices have held steady since the Federal Reserve capped them in 2010.

Fiserv is joining the increasingly crowded market for earned wage access in partnership with Instant Financial.

The company’s retail banking and auto-lending businesses in the U.S. generated a larger share of overall profits in the first quarter, and Executive Chairman Ana Botín and other executives unveiled expansion plans for both units.

The bank's blockchain venture with Temasek and DBS, called Partior, creates a wholesale blockchain network.

The Arkansas bank is turning to asset-based lending and loans to venture capital and other investment groups to help fill a void created by a shortage of new, big-ticket commercial real estate deals.