Community development financial institutions, which tend to be less digitally savvy than traditional banks and credit unions, are developing online-lending platforms and automating backroom processes with investments and technical assistance from big banks, high-tech firms and other sources.

The complaint charges the fintech startup with misleading customers about the interest they'd receive on deposits and the level of access to their money. It seeks an unspecified amount of consumer relief in addition to other remedies.

The startup, created in partnership with conversational AI platform LivePerson, will encourage users to send sums of money to strangers.

The two companies have worked together to provide a banking app that community banks can implement and deploy in 30 days.

A recent survey by the American Bankers Association found that mobile apps surpassed online banking as the go-to platform for consumers earlier this year, and its popularity has continued to rise since the onset of the pandemic.

The challenger bank will start by recommending how much users should allocate toward savings and spending, and will later transfer those amounts automatically.

Financial institutions like Ally Financial, Clinton Savings Bank and First National Bank of Omaha are recruiting personal finance experts, college students and local personalities to promote their products and services.

The fintech startup, which originally helped users cancel duplicate subscriptions, now wants to encourage healthier financial practices.

Scammers may have had more success at duping fintechs than banks in obtaining Paycheck Protection Program loans. But there are reasons for this apparent disparity.

Dean, who joined Capital One in 2014, succeeds Kleber Santos, who left the bank earlier this month to lead diversity initiatives at Wells Fargo.

Though most bank customers expect to return to calling or meeting in person with their bankers when the pandemic is over, Citigroup is gauging how much business it can keep in the videoconferencing channel.

Founder and CEO Neel Ganu has crafted a mobile app through which millennials can invest and spend using the same account.

Most fintechs entertain the idea of getting a commercial banking license from time to time, but Current is content partnering with banks, says founder and CEO Stuart Sopp.

Some customer fraud and a lack of cooperation from partners Huntington Bank and Dwolla prevented Beam Financial from returning funds to savers, says Aaron Du, the fintech's CEO. He says he’s trying to make things right, but Huntington and Dwolla are taking the dispute to court.

The two banks are among those deploying advanced analytics to give customers advice before they may even know they need it.

Customers say the Beam savings app is down and the company isn't returning their money. The situation is putting third parties like Huntington and Dwolla in the firing line, though they say they're not at fault.

The digital bank is on a larger mission to attract younger customers. It's inserting itself into the popular video game in the hope that game players will learn about its products and have fun at the same time.

The challenger bank now offers small businesses checking, lending and payments services on one platform and can link them through Plaid to external bank accounts.

Renaud Laplanche's fintech will give borrowers cash back when they lower their loan balances.

Both developments are part of the company’s strategy of becoming a full-service bank for its young, affluent customer base.