Technology

FTX, the digital-asset exchange co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, is nearing an agreement to buy BlockFi after extending a credit line to the beleaguered crypto lending platform, according to people familiar with the matter.  

The buy now/pay later startup Zilch has raised a further $50 million, upping the total raise for its Series C fundraising to $160 million as it plans bolster U.S. expansion plans. 

Ashley D. Bell and Bernice A. King, respectively the CEO and advisory council chair of Ready Life, are teaming up to help folks with poor credit buy a home by using rent payment history for mortgage underwriting.

StellarFi, Lamine Zarrad’s new startup, covers consumers' utility and other bills when they hit a cash-flow crunch. It then reports their repayments to the credit bureaus.

Vast Bank, Silvergate Capital and Northern Trust are among the banks that continue to build out digital-asset services, undeterred by extreme volatility in digital coin prices.

A new and larger finance industry is emerging — one in which traditional institutions aren’t nearly as dominant as they used to be.

The fintech Wise said the Financial Conduct Authority has commenced an investigation into Chief Executive Officer Kristo Kaarmann almost a year after he was fined by HMRC for deliberately defaulting on his taxes.

CEO Mike Butler of Grasshopper Bank surveys the landscape of fintech and discusses how new developments will affect banks and their customers.

Fraudsters sometimes target customers of credit unions and smaller banks because the institutions lack the cybersecurity resources of larger players.

With global tensions rising over Ukraine, the cutthroat competitiveness of the U.S. financial sector is yielding to partnership over the conviction that a cyberattack against even a group of minor banks — or a third-party service provider — could imperil everyone in a highly connected system.