Fintech
Fintech
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House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters and Rep. Patrick McHenry, the top GOP panel member, said Facebook must testify about Project Libra.
June 18 -
Open-banking technology provider Token has secured $16.5 million in a strategic investment from investors that include Opera Tech Ventures, the venture arm of BNP Paribas.
June 18 -
There’s a long list of reasons traditional lenders haven't kept up with the needs of entrepreneurs, says Judith Erwin, the head of Grasshopper Bank in New York. One is not asking for enough feedback.
June 18 -
Investment in B2B fintech startups has been ramping up for the past couple of years, and in the next year we’ll start to see businesses reaping the benefits of the fintech wave, says Nvoicepay's Karla Friede.
June 18 -
The Dutch company is no longer a bank in some countries, but more of a digital matchmaker between consumers and financial products provided by third parties, explains innovation chief Benoit LeGrand.
June 17 -
The executives were hired for their focus on loan origination, portfolio management and securitization.
June 17 -
Dozens of companies, including Google and PayPal, met with OCC officials last year in part to discuss obtaining a new fintech charter, but many ultimately decided not to pursue it, according to sources. Here's why.
June 16 -
Both companies want money to be "programmable." But how to go about it is a matter of dispute.
June 14 -
Synapse is working to refine its application programming interfaces to meet know-your-customer and other complex requirements, but it's a tall order, the head of the back-office-services platform says.
June 14 -
The CEO of the digital-only bank Chime says it has quadrupled its membership in a year. So why doesn't his counterpart at Varo believe him?
June 13 -
Monzo has been adding roughly 200,000 users a month in the U.K., and is hoping to replicate that success as it launches in the U.S.
June 13 -
New project models and the cloud can serve as an alternative to payment and financial services technology strategies that benefit larger banks more than small institutions, argues Vinay Prabhakar, vice president of product at Volante.
June 13 -
Stress tests have come a long way since first unveiled to shore up confidence in banks. But some critics fear that proposals to make the system more efficient would compromise its safety.
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In a study of 27 global markets, the U.S. ranked near the bottom for consumer use of fintech, raising questions about why Americans appear reluctant to dive in.
June 12 -
Successful digital transformations these days are done not as make-or-break moon-shots but as a continuing series of smaller projects, says Tata Consultancy Services' David Jordan.
June 12 -
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Doug Jones, D-Ala., cited research that found algorithmic lending can lead to higher interest rates for minority borrowers.
June 12 -
The investment firm is launching a company called Akoya that it says will help ease the technical aspects of data sharing, as well as disputes and liability issues, for banks, fintechs and data aggregators.
June 11 -
The ride-sharing heavyweights Uber and Grab built their markets by making payments seamless, and their expansion plans are similarly hooked into improving payments and other financial services.
June 11 -
The number of mergers approved in the first quarter was down significantly but experts are unsure of how long that will last.
June 11 -
Alkami Technology said it would use its latest round of funding to expand its white-label services for small banks and credit unions.
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