A survey conducted by Harris Poll and commissioned by Plaid found that 60% of U.S. adults are using more apps to manage money since the onset of the pandemic.

Credit and debit cards, merchant apps and loyalty programs are being linked through a platform from U.K-based Fidel to provide real-time rewards, business expense management, digital receipts, and charity donations.

Justice Department officials have embarked on a rewrite of antitrust policy that could waive certain requirements for community bank mergers and provide fewer advantages to large, out-of-town buyers and banks in urban areas.

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American Express is expanding into the fast-growing European market for open banking-based payment initiation services with its Pay with Bank transfer platform.

The bank's innovation group has developed a software tool for law firms. It hopes the project will help it speed products to market and attract top technology talent.

Many of the changes on the horizon were inevitable, but the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital payments and finance, forcing banks to reevaluate their models and pivot toward faster technology adoption.

Melio, which specializes in streamlining SMBs’ payments to suppliers, has raised an additional $80 million in venture capital funding to power its rapid growth during the pandemic.

The fintech and the Minnesota bank it acquired last week, renamed Mid-Central National Bank, intend to pioneer a new method of storing and moving money for consumers.

Fintech lenders that reported a surge in missed payments at the start of the pandemic have seen credit quality rebound substantially since. But credit performance could still deteriorate if high unemployment persists and Congress fails to enact more relief measures.