In a relationship-based business, it’s not enough to sell your customers a sharp tool to pay for things. You also have to help them avoid cutting themselves with it.

The blockchain startup continues to pack its board with mainstream finance experts.

Key efforts for banks include developing AI applications, adding fintech allies and strengthening cyberdefenses.

Mary Mack adds mortgage and auto units to her already large portfolio; futures price dips but volume up compared to Cboe’s first day of trading.

Jon Stein plans to make Betterment's robo-adviser as personalized and intelligent as the online retailer's recommendation engine.

The Silicon Valley payment processor is firing back at critics who say its bid for a bank charter would open the door to similar gambits by tech giants. Community activists, meanwhile, seem to be coming around to the idea of Square opening a bank.

What's an industry challenger to do when it gets a lot of competitors of its own? Ally's Diane Morais has a plan. Heather Cox has inserted technologists into USAA's business lines, and outgoing Fed Chair Janet Yellen has achieved rock star status.

The dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the creation of a fintech charter gives the agency more time to refine its policy, but the court ruling may set up future legal challenges.

Covault has begun offering a digital identification and virtual safe deposit box service to banks and others. Similar efforts have failed before, but its backers say mobile apps and the cloud have made the service more practical.

Grupo Coppel and Insikt, an online lender, would appear to be cut from different cloth, but they share an expertise in providing credit to working-class, largely Hispanic consumers. The retail conglomerate also operates 1,000 bank branches in Mexico, mixing banking and commerce in a way that U.S. regulators have not allowed.