Disruptors

It sounds like something that should be simple — letting a customer pay off their credit cards with a new personal loan — but it's not, according to Dave Girouard, Upstart's CEO.

The international regulatory group said that despite some benefits from tech firms' incursion, the companies' efforts may present operational and disruption risks.

The largest U.S. bank will share data through application programming interfaces with a sometimes-controversial data aggregator.

Former T. Rowe Price portfolio manager Henry Ellenbogen is making Rapyd his first bet.

In some ways, the moves are natural for tech startups with financial ambitions. Despite the growing success of fintech upstarts hailing from San Francisco, Wall Street institutions remain on top of the financial world.

In marketing themselves to small companies, challenger banks are offering cool gadgets and a sympathetic ear about the hassles of being bank customers.

In marketing themselves to small companies, challenger banks are offering cool gadgets and a sympathetic ear about the hassles of being bank customers.

The startup — whose backers include CitiVentures, SVB Capital and Microsoft's venture fund — says it's building an end-to-end platform for small businesses that integrates loans, checking, payments and other services.

Google has partnered with Citigroup and a California credit union to offer consumer checking accounts, a person familiar with the matter said.

The tech company’s card seems to be raising consumers’ expectations that they should be able to get and use a card instantly and receive useful notifications.