The top three fintech investors in the ranking have 76 combined VC investments as of June 2023.

The top three fintech SPAC mergers have a combined announced deal value of more than $2.6 billion as of the end of June 2023.

SoFi Technologies' effort to transition from upstart fintech firm to the big leagues of financial institutions will face an important step possibly as soon as next week when the company helps take Instacart public.

Executives at the Columbus, Ohio-based regional bank were convinced by a presentation Veuu, the solution's developer, made earlier this year.

If capital requirements are increased, they must be constructed in a way that doesn't unduly burden smaller banks and their fintech partners.

Zolve, a fintech that serves folks moving to the U.S., partnered with Gigs, a German startup, to roll out its mobile plan product.

The top three industries have $19.8 billion in combined fintech financings through June 2023.

The need to create a pipeline of female leaders in the male-dominated fintech space is urgent and deserves the industry's attention.

The small community bank was bought up by crypto-focused investors and quickly repositioned to cater to tech innovators. Is this problematic or perfectly legitimate?

The top three countries have 861 combined fintech financings through June 2023.

A co-founder of Totem, a neobank for Native Americans, initiated legal action against his counterpart. Disputes are not uncommon in the startup world.

Despite ESG headwinds in Florida, Climate First Bank in St. Petersburg continues to make "green" loans and plans to show consumers how their purchases affect the environment.

Banks are holding their fintech partners to a higher compliance standard as regulatory scrutiny of banking-as-a-service increases.

Figure, Oportun and Brex are among the fintechs that have dropped their applications for a banking charter.

"Their criminal case is likely to move faster than this civil suit, and vindication there may also neutralize some of the negative publicity about which they complain," the judge in the case wrote.

There is an urgent need for a new class of security solutions that will allow people to retain control of their decentralized financial lives with confidence and safety.

Banks need to rethink their relationships with customers for an era in which transitioning to a new financial services provider carries far fewer costs.

White Clay and Quantalytix are two financial technology providers whose founders spent more than a decade in banking and are intimately familiar with the issues they try to solve.

The firms are increasingly seeking to integrate generative artificial intelligence into their products, and banks are potentially interested customers. But such efforts are costly, the risks are high and "they want to make sure that they get it right," experts say.

Artificial intelligence can and should be integrated into the business of banking, but with adequate safeguards in place to mitigate the technology's potential vulnerabilities.