GrabrFi, a challenger bank for freelancers outside of the U.S., has found both hurdles and opportunities by working with banking-as-a-service middleware vendors.

The Federal Reserve's top regulator praised industry efforts to expand access to banking services, but warned about financial stability risks.

Reconciliation problems normally don't happen on the scale that is playing out with Synapse and its partner banks. But banks and their fintech partners can do a better job of communicating the realities of accessing financial services through nonbank entities.

With the line between banks and fintechs growing ever blurrier, financial services supervisors ought to consider adjusting regulation to fit the kinds of activity an institution is engaged in.

In this month's roundup of top banking news: a cease-and-desist issued by the Federal Reserve, high CFO turnover, the end of Chevron deference and more.

During a panel discussion at American Banker's Digital Banking conference last week, experts from American Commerce Bank discussed the launch of its virtual banking platform and theorized why other executives might be slow adopters.

The fintech has spent years trying to get a banking license from U.K. regulators that would allow it to expand its offerings in its home country.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told Synapse's partner banks, fintech companies and investors to pool together resources to immediately restore customer's access to deposits frozen in lengthy bankruptcy proceedings.

The Tennessee bank is the latest to be punished for lapses in oversight of fintech partners. Unlike most FDIC consent orders, the filing liberally uses the terms "fintech" and "BaaS."