Fintech
Fintech
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American Express is expanding into the fast-growing European market for open banking-based payment initiation services with its Pay with Bank transfer platform.
September 11 -
The bank's innovation group has developed a software tool for law firms. It hopes the project will help it speed products to market and attract top technology talent.
September 9 -
Many of the changes on the horizon were inevitable, but the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital payments and finance, forcing banks to reevaluate their models and pivot toward faster technology adoption.
September 9 -
Melio, which specializes in streamlining SMBs’ payments to suppliers, has raised an additional $80 million in venture capital funding to power its rapid growth during the pandemic.
September 8 -
The fintech and the Minnesota bank it acquired last week, renamed Mid-Central National Bank, intend to pioneer a new method of storing and moving money for consumers.
September 8 -
Fintech lenders that reported a surge in missed payments at the start of the pandemic have seen credit quality rebound substantially since. But credit performance could still deteriorate if high unemployment persists and Congress fails to enact more relief measures.
September 8 -
The Ohio regional added a feature to its mobile app that analyzes a customer's spending habits before sweeping small amounts of cash into a savings account.
September 8 -
Investors have poured a fresh $106 million into Amsterdam payments service provider Mollie, boosting its valuation past $1 billion.
September 8 -
The pandemic-driven move to electronic payments isn't slowing down, and card issuers are finding an eager group of innovators promising a speedy migration to digital card production.
September 8 -
Institutions considering new technologies must ask themselves what they're looking for not just from a product but from a partner.
September 4 -
The bank's Pershing unit is using fingerprint and facial recognition technology on Apple devices to protect user access to its desktop software.
September 4 -
In the short term, there’s no doubt that acquiring is faster than building something yourself. But to maintain quality and value for your merchants, you have to go through the process of deeply understanding the problem to build a solution that truly solves it, says Adyen's Ingo Uytdehaage.
September 4 -
The California company has acquired Mid-Central Federal Savings Bank, which is converting to a national bank.
September 3 -
The agreement between Colorado authorities, marketplace lenders and banks offers a way to structure partnerships without triggering the wrath of state regulators.
September 3 -
The agency’s plan to extend the "qualified mortgage" stamp of approval to more loans could help lenders that rely on alternative data and cushion the blow of other QM changes for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
September 2 -
The fintech Wealthfront's latest wrinkle gives clients a high level of control over their money, including the ability to set automatic transfers to savings accounts or exchange-traded funds.
September 2 -
The OCC’s efforts to bring the technology into the financial mainstream could help people in underserved communities execute payments more securely.
September 2 -
FIS' purchase of Worldpay in 2019 required Ellyn Raftery, the company's chief marketing and communication's officer, to reshape its brand to showcase the strengths of both companies — all while a major global pandemic hastened her timeline.
September 2 -
The division asked for public feedback as it weighs changes "to reflect emerging trends in the banking and financial services sector."
September 1 -
Banks that work with the data aggregator will tell it when account updates are ready, so it can refresh fintech (or bank) apps immediately.
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