Investments

Fannie Mae's serious delinquency rate climbed to a high not seen since March 2017, but remained lower than it was 12 months prior.

While interest from the West has so far been tepid in the region, this is an opportune time for fintech investors to look at participation in the Southeast Asian market, writes Alexander Koles, CEO and founder of Evolve Capital Partners.

Banks plan to spend more on blockchain and AI in the coming year, and appear willing to explore new technology partnerships.

Banks plan to spend more on blockchain and AI in the coming year, and appear willing to explore new technology partnerships.

Banking regulatory agencies Thursday announced that they would raise the aggregate loan commitment threshold for syndicated loans to be included in the Shared National Credit program from $20 million to $100 million.

Banks' online advice platforms are just the face of a deeper effort to restructure client data and adapt to a digital era.

Bitcoin, the “gateway currency,” is but one application in an enormous pool of possibilities that blockchain technology presents, writes Alexander Koles, CEO and founder of Evolve Capital Partners.

Jon Stein plans to make Betterment's robo-adviser as personalized and intelligent as the online retailer's recommendation engine.

The cloud, open development and onboarding tools should get a boost from PSD2, with mandates that banks make it easier to share payment data with fintechs in Europe.

Loot has been in development since 2014 and has raised a total of more than $7 million thus far.

Coinbase wants loans, venture capital, payments, accounts receivable and stock trading done with electronic currency, using Coinbase instead of banks.

Rather than charge set fees, Aspiration offers customers name-your-fee accounts and donates to charities based on the amount of money it makes.

While much has been said about the "total supply" of bitcoin as a fixed amount, the reality is that "hard forks" in the Bitcoin blockchain have eliminated this limit, writes Mariam Nishanian, a spokesperson for Dentacoin.

Farmer Mac has terminated President and CEO Timothy Buzby for violating company policies not related to its financial and business performance.

Empow's security platform, integrated into a company's network through APIs or by routing data to empow, breaks down the individual components of a security tool to create an "abstracted new layer" that talks to a set of artificial intelligence algorithms.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have grown rapidly in the past year, prompting more mainstream acceptance.

Dizzying trading in bitcoin fed the bubble argument, but now that Nasdaq is the third Wall Street player to say it is designing a financial instrument around it, banks may be forced to reassess cryptocurrencies.

Guidance focuses on five key traits, including overseeing risk profiles; a former Congressional aide says agency must be accountable.

Banks would be big winners if Congress slashes corporate tax rates and they will have no shortage of options for deploying all that extra cash.

Investors should ask questions about the market necessity of the coin, which economic model underpins it, and how transparent the company is being about its progress to date, writes Shidan Gouran, president and COO of Global Blockchain Technologies Corp.