The San Diego parent of Ascent Student Lending said Tuesday that it will buy Skills Fund, an Austin, Texas, startup that specializes in lending to students at computer-coding boot camps.

Subhankar Sinha, the bank’s new head of blockchain, says its partnership with Bakkt is part of a larger effort to figure out what it would look like to be a custodian for digital assets.

Open banking or connections to payment apps and fintechs helps financial institutions meet these customer needs in a number of ways that can help them build that customer relationship, writes Maria Allen, global head of financial services for Unisys.

The stocks of a wide swath of publicly traded payments companies are rising faster than the overall S&P 500 index, potentially fueled by several mega mergers in the first half of 2019.

Paysafe has recruited TSYS exec Philip McHugh as its new CEO, a few days after news broke of the TSYS-Global Payments merger.

Community and regional institutions' survival could hinge on their ability to access large troves of data.

Smaller banks are often not taking the extra step beyond traditional functions such as online bill pay, writes Alberto Hernandez, COO for the U.S. region at Valid.

Branches are closing at the fastest pace in years, and keeping them relevant to customers is a problem banks are being forced to solve in ever more creative ways.

While there’s been dramatic innovation in the banking sector in recent years, regulators and startups can better collaborate around these developments.

The data aggregator plans to help U.S. fintechs expand into the U.K. and vice versa.