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Companies that scored highest in this year’s Best Fintechs to Work For ranking go beyond the basics of strong pay packages, generous benefits and effective leadership to take a more holistic interest in their employees’ lives, according to the data.

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The companies on our third annual list of Best Fintechs to Work For (a ranking compiled by our parent company, Arizent) share an ability to create personal connections with employees, and offer top-tier benefits like generous sabbaticals, fully paid insurance, and parental leave on day one.

Stock markets have endured dramatic swings since the coronavirus erupted in China and talks of pandemics surfaced. But the notoriously volatile bitcoin market has been steadily climbing as investors see value in crypto's ability to thrive as traditional financial rails are under pressure.

Kaustav Das was part of Kabbage’s effort to transform small-business lending by using new data analytics, and the CEO of Petal wants him to help it do the same in consumer credit cards.

It’s not even a month into 2020 and some analysts are already predicting a record-setting year and mass adoption for bitcoin.

Higher rates are looming for transactions on e-commerce sites, while merchants in certain services categories, such as real estate and education, will see fees decline, according to a document Visa sent to banks.

The shift from person-to-person deposits to digital options – including mobile, ATMs and RDC – has created new challenges to fraud prevention efforts.

For the first-time, over half of all product and service purchase transactions in Russia were paid for using non-cash payment instruments.

Newcomers Nymbus, Neocova, Finxact and Technisys and older competitors like Temenos, Infosys and Oracle are winning over community and regional banks by offering what some bankers describe as more flexible technology at fairer prices.