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Jon Zanoff, managing director of Barclays New York Accelerator, has been coaching fintech startups for decades. He offers tips on how to make it as a fintech startup and run an effective accelerator.

Recent growth has come through acquisitions, including the 2015 purchase of a transportation finance business from General Electric and the 2011 takeover of Milwaukee-based Marshall & Ilsley.

Testing of the common securitization platform is taking longer than expected, but the Federal Housing Finance Agency said it won't delay the 2019 launch of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's new single "uniform mortgage-backed security."

One of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, bitFlyer, has landed in the U.S. with a focus on institutional investors — a move that suggests bitcoin's days as a payments instrument are still a long way off.

The digitally driven retail environment has caused lots of adapt-or-die challenges for payment processors and merchant acquirers, including spotting fraud as it moves from one device and channel to another.

Tech startups differ from a bank’s typical commercial clients; many want a trusted financial adviser.

PayStand, a blockchain business-to-business payments platform, has completed a $6 million funding round through BlueRun Ventures.

Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have held talks before, and now they have a common shareholder — the U.S. PE firm Cerberus — in a position to broker a deal.

The private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management has taken a 3% stake in Deutsche Bank four months after buying a 5% stake in another German lender, Commerzbank.

The authority of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to label a firm a “systemically important financial institution” triggers duplicative regulation even if banklike rules are not appropriate to the company.