Investments

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.

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.

The agencies completed steps to ease a community bank capital measure temporarily and to delay a new credit-loss accounting standard.

Billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Group filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai to bankroll its expansion in financial services and bolster its lead as China’s largest online payments platform.

The Nashville-based institution is still awaiting regulatory approval on a proposal to operate as a subsidiary of Fortera Credit Union.

Executives and boards are bracing for elevated loan losses and stagnant revenue, which will mean more conversations about belt tightening as opposed to added investment.

With big banks largely shunning the program, small banks see an opening to grab more market share in commercial lending.

Stripe is expanding its digital payment technology into new industries, and is also welcoming a series of notable executives with backgrounds that are mostly outside merchant technology. But they also have experience with much larger companies, a necessary skill as Stripe tries to grow out of its status as fintech upstart.

Banks and other financial firms say the proposal to reverse restrictions on investment advisers does not go far enough. Meanwhile, investor advocates say it would loosen necessary protections.

As lenders redouble their efforts to measure the carbon impact of their loans, they’re finding that residential mortgages are often one of the biggest line items on their books.