The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new regulation governing prepaid cards will disrupt consumer practices, drive up costs and wreak havoc on a fast-growing sector within the payments industry.

Two community banks have put forward plans for a speedier U.S. payment system. They're up against the industry's giants.

Cross-border payments are a complex and global system, so it's no surprise that modernizing this process would require a partnership that spans multiple continents and a relatively new and experimental technology.

It's time not only to hold banks accountable for their security, but also to provide meaningful regulatory guidance on how to achieve security.

The once-icy relationship between banks and fintechs thawed quite a bit in the last year. The next step might be for banks to start buying startups.

Our FinTech Forward Companies to Watch are helping banks step up their game by offering virtual assistance, better money management tools and other solutions.

A new app aims to modernize the automobile financing process by allowing car shoppers to get credit approval on their phones.

Royal Bank of Scotland will soon launch a customer pilot of Luvo, a chat bot taught to answer customers' questions in near-real time and route more complex requests to advisers using IBM Watson Conversation.

B of A's Merrill Lynch unit by early next year plans to join Charles Schwab, Fidelity Investments, BBVA Compass, U.S. Bancorp and others in offering clients a low-cost investing app and online service.

Prosper Marketplace is closing the secondary market for its loans, citing a lack of demand among investors.