The San Francisco fintech, which is buying Radius Bancorp, will discontinue peer-to-peer lending and instead offer new products, like high-yield savings accounts, to its retail investors.

What Jason Gardner, founder and CEO of Marqeta, has learned leading a 450-person fintech from home.

Control of the U.S. Senate hangs in the balance in the upcoming election, with the outcome determining the direction of laws and regulations that can have a profound impact on financial services, technology, fintech and payments innovation.

Harvest, a fintech founded by Nami Baral, has developed an alternative scoring method that amasses data on spending patterns, debt payments and even earnings potential to get a better sense of consumers' creditworthiness.

Following compliance policies and respecting the requirements of the regulator is a good foundation for effective marketing communication, says Aximetria's Dmitry Ryzhkov.

Embedded finance isn't new, but the influence of online payments and banking creates vast new scale, says Kunai's Sandeep Sood.

Origin Bank is rolling out software to let customers curb or shut down account-data sharing with third-party apps. In the process, it hopes to learn a lot about client behavior and preferences that it could use in its own products.

Kabbage co-founder Kathryn Petralia, whose company is being sold to American Express, discusses government and financial-sector lifelines she says could help businesses that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.

If the Senate confirms Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, it will cement a conservative majority that will likely decide a variety of fintech issues, including the rules digital payment companies have to follow when providing broader financial services.

The company's new agreement with Envestnet Yodlee to share customers' account data over secure pipes is its 17th pact with aggregators and other fintech firms.