Four of the startups are focused on business and consumer bill payments, and a fifth offers student loan repayment assistance as an employee perk.

Triumph Bancorp has developed technology to help freight brokers make faster payments to truckers, charging a fee for the service.

The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking input on whether it should expand its fintech testing ground to include startups and regulators from around the world.

While small and regional banks are pushing for a rollback of the Dodd-Frank Act, big banks are largely supportive of the 2010 financial reform law, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said Thursday.

U.S. fintechs attracted $5.8 billion in the fourth quarter as institutions sought an AI edge.

R&D capabilities at Interac got a boost last month when Interac Corp. was created by merging Interac Association and Acxys Corp. It brought together a payments network handling nearly 5.7 billion debit transactions annually with a company specializing in payments development, management and consultation.

The investment continues a trend of banks focusing on commercial payments technology.

The online small-business lender is enjoying a payoff from its year-old push to cut costs and tighten underwriting standards. It is also set to announce another lending agreement with a major bank this year, its CEO said Tuesday.

Neptune Financial plans to use technology to improve the efficiency in making loans to companies with $10 million to $100 million in annual revenue.

In what could be seen as a mea culpa for CEO Jamie Dimon's disparagement of bitcoin five months ago, the Wall Street megabank has released a big and relatively bullish report on cryptocurrencies.