Stripe has hired David Singleton away from Android Wear to lead engineering for Stripe.
Patrick Collison, Stripe's cofounder,
Stripe's recent initiatives include Elements, a service that works like building blocks to make it easier for merchants to add or update new features without requiring substantial programming skills. The payment company is also expanding internationally and diversifying its range of merchant services.
Singleton had not confirmed the move as of Friday afternoon, though
PayPal and Circle are among the companies pushing the rapidly growing payment-friendly cryptocurrency as a catalyst to use other services.
As the banking-as-a-service model has evolved over the last decade amid widespread consent orders and BaaS partnership failures, the number of sponsor banks has dwindled, leaving fintechs to compete for the business of those that remain.
First Savings Financial Group could have bailed out of SBA lending after the departures of key executives and loan officers. Instead it retooled the unit, and it's now reaping the benefits.
Safely disposing of cocaine, sending dogs chasing laser pointers and other unorthodox lessons in maintaining levity in a high-stress job.
Citizens Financial Group's promotion of Brendan Coughlin to company president comes at the same time as CFO John Woods prepares to leave for State Street. Both executives have been viewed as potential successors to CEO Bruce Van Saun.
The card network took a 3% stake in Corpay to improve international payment processing for corporate clients, while also pushing technology that aims to drastically reduce the need for human supervision of artificial intelligence.
