Fintech

Featurespace has formed a partnership with Emailage to combat online application fraud, where criminals use stolen consumer credentials to apply for credit cards or bank accounts in victims’ names.

Though the use of alternative data in lending is seen by some as untested, several fintechs say they couldn't function without it.

Community banks shouldn’t wait for the Fed to create a new real-time payments rail when consumers are already flocking to other options.

The new products, along a 2% cash-back credit card, are aimed at helping customers build savings and reduce debt.

These banks posted strong quarterly results at a time when many others struggled with thinner margins and rising expenses.

Walmart has filed a patent application for a digital currency that, like Facebook's Libra, would be a stablecoin backed by traditional currencies. And it envisions a very specific use case where its coin could stand in for cash — or even for a bank account.

Millyard Bank is on a course to open by the end of this year.

Square has worked hard in the past several years to offer more than just mobile card acceptance, but not all of its efforts have paid off.

Apple Inc. and Barclays Plc have dropped the rewards program from their longtime credit-card partnership in advance of the debut this month of a new Apple Card with Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Under the Illicit Cash Act, anti-money-laundering rules would be clearer — so banks would have no excuses for noncompliance.