Atlanta is flush with payment processors that handle more than 70% of the nation's transactions. These players now plan to expand their reach even further, hoping to make the southern city a fintech hub to rival Silicon Valley and New York.

Despite billions in revenue annually, legal marijuana businesses have yet to find a solution to the industry’s lack of reliable payments, banking and other financial services.

Regulators are quick to laud "core" deposits and so-called stickiness, but the reality is that brokered deposits — especially CDs — have become some of the most stable and cost-effective funding available.

The British challenger bank Mondo raised $1.4 million in 96 seconds, it announced Thursday.

A new survey from seven regional Federal Reserve banks found that many small businesses are going online to access credit. But even when they are approved, applicants often end up dissatisfied because the loans carry high interest rates or have unfavorable repayment terms.

BankMobile has launched a podcast series focused on financial literacy and self-help tips.

Wells Fargo and Tangerine Bank are among those trying new communications tools that bring human conversations back into the channels where people bank by swiping and tapping.

A consumer group argues in a new report that banks are being too aggressive as they try to persuade their customers to switch to the electronic delivery of monthly statements. Now it's calling for the CFPB to step in.

More than 200 small banks across the country will be able to offer online loans to their small-business customers as part of a new partnership announced Tuesday.

The blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings has added Sallie Krawcheck to its board.

Pairing up with corner stores, street teams and college students: all the ways fintech startups and tech savvy banks are trying to use the physical world to attract people to their digital products.

The nation's largest marketplace lender announced changes Friday to its partnership with Utah-based WebBank. The revisions are designed to preserve Lending Club's ability to ignore state interest rate caps.

Capital One Financial in McLean, Va., has added Amazon's former chief information security officer to its board of directors.

Regulators’ focus on having banks and credit unions offer payday loan alternatives to underserved consumers overlooks the success of Web-based companies in filling credit gaps.

Delinquencies are rising among the sector's less creditworthy borrowers, which is contributing to smaller returns for investors. This sets up the first major test for an industry that blossomed during a period of unusually low defaults.

Moven, one of the most talked-about startups of the fintech boom, is looking to spread financial education to the self-employed.

Commercial bank clients are increasingly looking to replace physical corporate cards with virtual ones to streamline bookkeeping and limit risk. The adoption of such solutions is a good sign for mobile payments overall.

The precedent set in the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI over custom access to a device in question opens up unsettling risks on privacy and security.

The online brokerage Robinhood Financial has eliminated its three-day waiting period for the use of funds deposited into an account.

Chase Pay is tied to the issuer's 94 million credit, debit and prepaid card accounts, representing half of U.S. households. Depending on the perspective, this means Chase's wallet either starts with — or excludes — half of the market.