A week after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency created a new federal charter for fintech firms, California's financial regulator is calling on other states to work together in making their licensing system more palatable to companies.

Detroit-based fintech company Bankjoy on Friday announced new partnerships with two credit unions for digital access technology.

Crooks are getting more clever when hacking e-commerce sites to hide illegal activity, requiring banks and processors to developer a broader picture of merchants and payment activity.

Mobile payment initiatives have largely failed because they focus on changing transactions instead of changing the way consumers and merchants engage with each other, according to Carta Worldwide, which touts new tokens as a way to reverse that.

The credit union also implemented Fiserv’s “Mobiliti” for mobile banking and PopMoney for P2P payments.

A flood of fintech companies are promising to create a better experience for mortgage borrowers, forcing lenders to contemplate buying a vendor's software, building applications in-house — or even outright acquiring a company with digital expertise.

Looking to make that special IT person in your life happy this holiday season? Anything related to cybersecurity is probably a good bet.For the 15th consecutive year, Credit Union Journal asked IT execs from credit unions and credit union service organizations (CUSO) around the nation to share what technologies would make their respective 2017 more joyful and productive. Assuming they were all on the "nice list," here are their wishes.

Amazon.com has set the standard for e-commerce with fast delivery, invisible payments and many other perks that keep consumers coming back to its site. Increasingly, the e-tailer has been experimenting with ways to streamline the payment process outside of the trappings of its website.

Mobile app photo IDs have had mixed success, but Credntia's betting an overall spike in mobile technology will lead to robust use of its app.

SAN FRANCISCO — Want to improve the customer experience? Start by making the employees' tools better.

Maikki Frisk will become the Mobey Forum's executive director early next year, replacing Sirpa Nordlund, who is moving to a payments startup.

When BankMobile, the brainchild of Jay Sidhu and his daughter Luvleen, relaunches on a new platform in January, security — especially for the onboarding process — will be completely redesigned.

Deloitte is looking to diversify beyond its "bread and butter" of professional service firms.

To launch its payments platform, Digitzs used crowdfunding as an alternative to the traditional venture capital. Its founder explains how it made that happen.

Biometric authentication company Veridium has named a former fintech executive from HSBC as its new CEO.

One of the earliest bitcoin companies, Circle has attracted several rounds of investments and is beginning to diversify its strategic focus.

Community banks are increasingly looking to fintech firms as a way to offer customers the tech they want in order to be competitive.

The Secure Keys dongle has worked well to vet internal staff at Google, and the search giant sees a number of other uses for the hardware.

The company hopes to build off of its successful mobile app by adding new ordering technology. A massive international expansion of its store footprint is also in the works.

Cross River Bank, which processes payments and funds loans for fintech startups, says that if such firms got a federal charter, it could help them another way: teaching them compliance.