Technology

The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs.

Crooks are using techniques that move quickly, making AI a good bet when searching through many layers of transaction data, according to Jie Wu, a director at GoodData.

The venture capital arms of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Salesforce.com Inc. are investing in U.K. payments startup GoCardless, which has has raised an additional $75 million to fund expansion.

The cross-border B2B payments startup is introducing a rewards program to help drive repeat usage and expand its network.

CEO Corbat says “thousands” of call center jobs may be lost; Barclays shareholder sells all stock in the bank and Deutsche’s biggest slashes its stake.

With real-time payments advancing, processors need to shore up security, according to David Worthington, vice president of payments at Rambus.

With retailers seeking to discourage cash use and billers increasingly going digital, PayNearMe stands in the middle seeking to further enable the very people who depend on being able to use cash: the underbanked and unbanked.

The company's expansion into new business lines could help offset recent declines in loan volume.

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The enforcement action from the OCC comes on the heels of a CFPB consent order that said USAA reopened customers' accounts without consent and neglected stop-payment requests.