Data sharing

The data aggregator plans to help U.S. fintechs expand into the U.K. and vice versa.

In the past few years, APIs have become a surprisingly hot topic, considered by many as a golden key to open banking and innovation.

The company offers an operating system for financial applications akin to Apple's iOS, and more than 1,000 applications run on it.

A Brooklyn startup predicts a mix of blockchain and AI can give retailers a referral and conversion model like Amazon and eBay, but the merchants will have to cede some data control.

At a fintech event hosted by the FDIC, the agency’s chief and the head of the OCC offered their views on a wide range of matters.

Long-simmering tensions between the financial industry and Silicon Valley startups are erupting behind-the-scenes into a battle over the reams of valuable data held inside Americans' bank accounts.

California and others have passed consumer privacy laws, and lawmakers in Congress are beginning to address the issue. Here's an overview of the players and the proposals.

The all-in-one card market has been a dead end for many years, with products like Coin, Swyp, Stratos and Plastc doomed to be mere footnotes in the history of fintech. Curve is determined to avoid the same fate, and it says PSD2 is its ticket to success.

Through a partnership with Adyen, Dutch airline KLM is one of the first large merchants to adopt an online payments approach that bypasses payment cards, powered by PSD2's open banking framework.

Steve Boms, executive director of the Financial Data and Technology Association, says open banking standards are needed for U.S. banks and fintechs to follow.