JPMorgan Chase is considering buying a stake in Yapily, a financial technology startup that's seeking to raise fresh funds, people familiar with the matter said.

Singapore country head Shee Tse Koon describes the bank's push to create a massive marketplace that offers everything from hotel reservations to health care.

Smarter tech solutions can help banks worried about fines from regulators keep their employees on authorized apps and devices.

The bank received 341 technology patents in the first half of the year and says it has more patents than any other financial services company. However, executives have acknowledged that they aren't all usable.

After the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cracked down on a $2.8 billion-asset bank, industry observers expect more scrutiny of the ties between banks and financial technology startups.

Technology designed to direct more consumers online can create difficulties for groups that rely on branches and other in-person services, according to Janis Bowdler, a racial equity counselor with the Treasury Department.

Fintech and cryptocurrency firms competing with banks but subject to fewer regulations are "getting away with murder," said Eugene Ludwig, a former comptroller under the Bill Clinton administration. 

The Los Angeles fintech, which hosts a marketplace where people lend to one another, is moving forward and working to set up a "lending DAO" as it deals with questions about its tipping model.

Officials say the decision to call off the acquisition, first announced in January, was mutual.

Banks make up just 10% of the client base for Eltropy, which hopes to increase that number through two tech acquisitions that add video banking and artificial intelligence capabilities.

The company told consumers they were pre-approved for credit cards. For some such offers, a third of applicants were denied, according to the FTC.

The bank is looking to educate — and potentially hire — a new generation of tech experts by working with New Jersey's Liberty Science Center and two local high schools in areas where students are at higher risk of not graduating.

Participants include Digital Asset and Ripple alongside others involved with foreign central bank digital currencies. The program is set to begin next month.

Marcus and Upstart are two companies that got high marks for customer satisfaction from J.D. Power but rely on digital methods to reach and underwrite borrowers.

Zepz Group, the U.K. financial technology startup and parent of the payments company WorldRemit, has named Mark Lenhard as its new chief executive, replacing Breon Corcoran.

Customers can use the company's application programming interfaces to set up automatic bill payments and donations, block transactions that would break their budget, and more.

Flow Traders and Hudson River Trading have backed Sei Labs, a crypto startup founded by Goldman Sachs and Robinhood Markets veterans that is developing a blockchain aimed at speeding up decentralized finance transactions.

The banking and payment services company hopes to attract young talent.

After a decade of multibillion-dollar tech investments by banks, efficiency ratios have begun to improve and headcounts drop, some industry watchers say. Skeptics counter that other reasons are at play and that it's all hard to measure.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.'s new consumer-focused digital bank will be born out of its Manufacturers Bank subsidiary — a relatively small commercial bank with nine branches and no consumer business to speak of.