The Virginia bank, which engages in banking-as-a-service partnerships with fintech companies, has run into trouble with the OCC in 2021 and 2022.

A new app for people with a criminal past and a challenger bank "of immigrants for immigrants" are among the neobanks forging their own path in the banking world.

Charles Vice, former commissioner of the Kentucky Public Protection Cabinet's Department of Financial Institutions, will advise the National Credit Union Administration's board on policy and tech-related initiatives.

The rate of venture funding to startups run by women continues to decline.

Lenders must not use new technology and increased access to credit products as a way to exploit borrowers into overextension.

Truist CIO Ken Meyer and other bank leaders are seeing the chance to hire engineers, developers and data scientists.

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Digital banking apps such as Daylight, Greenlight and Re:start are helping their customers do more than stash paychecks and save for the future.

Telhio Credit Union in Ohio hopes to help contractors verify their earnings when applying for loans and other financial services.

Even as DeFi remains mostly unregulated, it offers no shield against the legal consequences of alleged fraud.

Federal agencies' complaints against FTX's leaders have led to scrutiny of the banks it worked with. While it's unlikely the bankers will be held accountable for the cryptocurrency exchange's wrongdoing, the case could make it more difficult any bank that wants to work with crypto-related businesses.

American Express, LendingClub and Webster Bank are among the financial firms that named new chief information officers and chief technology officers.

The $23 million deal, announced more than a year ago, was terminated following regulatory delays.

The National Credit Union Administration will soon name a director for its Office of Financial Technology and Access, which Hood — a board member and former chairman of the agency — created. He explains in an interview why the office's work is a priority.

Banco Bradesco, Brazil's second-biggest bank by market value, plans to buy more minority stakes in tech companies to accelerate its expansion in the United States.

Investors are learning the hard way, again, that highflying new financial products, with little or no regulatory oversight, tend to crash.

The former chief innovation officer at Quontic Bank and American Banker's 2020 Digital Banker of the Year is offering seminars, a bank-fintech matchmaking platform and a fintech investment fund.

The Small Business Administration must be prepared to effectively oversee any new lenders it allows in its flagship 7(a) loan guarantee program to guard against fraud and other risks, Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Small Business Committee warned.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is in talks to invest about $200 million in Akulaku, an Indonesian online lender backed by Jack Ma's Ant Group, according to people familiar with the matter.

The deal is the banking titan's latest investment in fintech.