The company, which is dealing with a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission tied to certain fees, hired Ronnie Momen from GreenSky as its chief lending officer.

Beyond offering a buzzworthy new payments app or automating exhausting mortgage applications, for example, traditional payment providers and fintechs need to ensure that their business is resilient against increasingly sophisticated cybercrime and ready for a hyperconnected world, writes Malte Pollman, CEO of Utimaco.

Despite some criticisms of the strategy, community banks should continue to pair up with fintech companies that can help them expand their digital offerings.

If fintechs can prove effective at overcoming fraud challenges as they scale their customer base, they’ll be able to better capitalize on their unique position of operating independent of legacy platforms as they create a more financially connected consumer experience, writes Dave Excell, founder and CTO of Featurespace.

Executives at the recent In|Vest conference discussed ways to make banks more competitive in the world of financial advice.

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It will be the third collaboration together for the new CEO and CTO at Pivotus Ventures.

Bradley Leimer, Moderator, Managing Director and Head of Fintech Strategy Explorer Advisory & Capital, Dann Bibas, CEO, Fountain, Deborah Owens, CEO, WealthyU, Saad Zariff, Vice President of North America, Wahed Invest LLC.

Raj Date’s new firm, FS Vector, will help cryptocurrency firms and digital upstarts navigate Washington.

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