To increase its share of global card spending through gig-economy fintechs and startups, Amex is extending its rewards through a partnership with digital issuing vendor i2c.

Firms such as Visa, Mastercard, PNC and Fiserv say employers can address the labor crunch by making it easier for employees to access and move their money through services such as earned wage access, crypto bonuses and digitized expense management.

Consumer advocates and fintechs say the traditional credit score and lending systems that use it are murky and perpetuate bias. FICO’s leader points out that new FICO scores use expanded data sets, just as fintechs do.

The company provides incentives through the online statements of many large card issuers — but it faces more competition than ever from fintechs and "super apps." To stay in the game, Cardlytics is scooping up more data to sharpen its pitches.

It began as an app for teens, but Current had its eye on cryptocurrency-related services from the start. The goal is to improve on the products it offers customers, such as above-market interest rates.

The renewal of the e-commerce giant's cobranded card cements an alliance between two giants of their industries — just as both companies are pushing ahead with products such as buy now/pay later loans that put pressure on traditional credit cards.

SoFi Technologies and MoneyLion offer a slew of banking services. Will this enable them to grab significant market share from traditional institutions?

Though it's one of the largest U.S. credit unions at $15 billion of assets, the organization still works with a number of fintechs to live up to its name.

Ramp, a startup that offers corporate cards and other finance tools to businesses, raised $750 million in a funding round that valued the fintech at $8.1 billion.

A growing chorus of voices seems to share the view of former New York banking regulator Maria Vullo, who once said, “Toddlers play in sandboxes. Adults play by the rules.” But any movement away from the collaborative development of regulations for new financial services products would be a setback for consumer choice.

EasyPay Finance, a fintech partner of TAB Bank, has been accused of providing high-rate loans through pet stores that source animals from abusive dog breeders. The bank's CEO says he didn’t know the dogs come from facilities with histories of abuse, and is talking to the Humane Society about the issue.

The data aggregator and challenger bank have formed a partnership to let customers of Green Dot’s mobile banking app use any of the 6,000 fintech apps in Plaid’s ecosystem.

The fintech will work with the bank’s largest clients to spread their cash among U.S. branches of non-U.S. institutions, helping them obtain higher yields while diversifying counterparty risk.

Russia's invasion has disrupted life at Lithuanian startup Paysera, which has a dozen employees in Ukraine, including Yevhen Matasar, who fled from Kyiv to a nearby town where he still does some programming when he can. "This is a very difficult situation … it's helpful to be able to continue to work," Matasar said.

CEO Nitin Mhatre, who joined the Massachusetts bank in 2021, said that any M&A deal is at least a year away. For now, the bank is working with fintechs as a way to bolster its balance sheet and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Best known as a maker of ATMs and point-of-sale devices, Diebold Nixdorf is launching a new cloud platform to support merchants and their customers as transactions become more hardware-agnostic.

Revolut’s Chief Revenue Officer Alan Chang is leaving the U.K. financial technology startup for a new cryptocurrency venture and is seeking to raise roughly $100 million in financing.

Companies with staff in the war-torn country are relocating some and supporting those who choose to stay.

Zeta Services, a banking and credit card technology unicorn, has raised $30 million from investors including Mastercard, and the two announced a five-year collaboration to help customers launch credit card services.