Ensuring a good experience for buyers not only gives companies an edge over their competition, but it has practically become a requirement for company growth. With the increasing popularity of information-sharing websites and apps like Facebook or Yelp, reputations can expand or shatter within moments, writes Nvoicepay’s Alyssa Callahan.

Installment payments are catching on quickly with merchants and their customers, creating a fierce competition among rivals who are building competing technology and business models to approach the new market.

The bank will reduce its footprint to its German roots; U.S. banks are offering cash bonuses to keep customers from fleeing to higher-yielding accounts.

Much as the fintech wave has sparked investments and deal-making among legacy bank technology vendors and payment processors, Experian, TransUnion and Equifax are entering partnerships and making investments.

The president says he’ll nominate Judy Shelton, Christopher Waller for Fed; the bank reportedly in talks to sell parts of its “once prized” equities business.

Alexander Lopatine, who founded Nymbus and has joined Mbanq, says alternative providers are gaining the confidence of more banks. However, questions remain about their staying power in the fight with traditional vendors.

Breaking from its playbook as a conservative lender, Provident Financial in New Jersey is working with a fintech to offer unsecured loans online.

Facebook’s plan to launch a cryptocurrency has raised concerns that state banking regulators may not be equipped to oversee large, international companies.

The Bank for International Settlements is setting up shop to help officials who may need to speed up developing their own digital currency.

CaixaBank, Global Payments and terminal maker Ingenico are investing 5 million euros to establish an international innovation program designed to identify and aid promising fintech startups.

The millions of people displaced by war, famine and other hardships face distinct challenges and dangers when accessing and using money, and these pain points are being addressed by a blockchain-powered payment app that is part of Western Union's accelerator program.

H&M will enable Klarna as a payment option in its 580 U.S. stores beginning this fall, building on a partnership the two Swedish companies established last year.

Visa’s chief economist recently warned that fintechs are disintermediating banks’ credit card businesses with instant access to installment loans. Now Visa is looking to disrupt the fintechs by giving issuers a way to do the same.

Lending to companies with heavy debt loads is a growing business — one that many fear could lead to the next financial crisis.

Banks claim that regulators have been avoiding using a transparent public process to implement new regulations, opting instead to use informal guidance that has the impact of policy.

Dallas Fed chief says lower interest rates may require stricter rules to ward off riskier lending; after financial crisis, debt backed by HELOCs disappeared.

The fast-growing data company, which says its mission is to help banks be better consumer advocates, will use its cash infusion for hiring, software development and new partnerships.

Aura is one of the few fintechs in the nation to have a community development financial institution designation from the Treasury Department.

The speed and the bipartisan nature of the demand for an investigation into Facebook's Libra are telling, giving ammunition to those who warned the cryptocurrency space is underregulated and unsafe

Seed, a San Francisco startup, has developed a platform that lets small businesses quickly open accounts online. That's an important feature for Cross River as it courts more fintech clients.