Consumers and their credit scores could be put at considerable risk unless regulators establish meaningful safeguards.

A new service speeds payments by using artificial intelligence to predict which buyers are most likely to pay.

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center has created a forum to let technology vendors provide security updates to their bank clients. Whether more steps need to be taken is a matter of debate.

In this fireside chat, Ida Liu, the global head of Citi Private Bank, covers a range of topics, including how digital client engagement is evolving.

The nonprofit received a $1.5 million grant to monitor, evaluate and strengthen consumer protections in the digital financial marketplace. Here's what it's doing with the funds.

Home valuation professionals have had mixed feelings about automation out of concern that some forms could result in less accurate assessments.

The U.K. neobank has expanded its U.S. customer base to 300,000 mobile users and diversified its product line to include basic banking, crypto trading and investing.

The new offering’s loan structure is designed to hedge against digital currency's price volatility.

Valuations for payment technology companies skyrocketed over the past year, pushed by a wave of public listings and record venture capital investments. Some potential acquirers are waiting for prices to cool.

SoFi Bank, which is expected to open next month, emerges from the company’s purchase of a small community bank in California. It will not be allowed to engage in crypto-asset activities without its primary regulator’s approval.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors abandoned a lawsuit against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that had challenged the San Francisco fintech's effort to become a national bank without deposit insurance. The company recently amended its application to drop that controversial element.

Challenger banks like Chime and Dave have been helping customers avoid overdraft fees for years. As traditional banks start to do the same, the fintechs say they still offer consumers a better deal.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is more than a year away from issuing a proposal on consumers’ right to control the flow of their data between banks and third parties such as fintechs, according to people familiar with the bureau’s thinking. Many previously expected a plan to arrive this spring.

The startup PointCard's new charge card ignores applicants' credit scores, instead weighing their cryptocurrency holdings and other investments to determine ability to repay.

The companies will use funding obtained from private investors to develop or expand products that help business owners send and receive money more quickly and manage their operations.

Chief Audit Officer Denise DeMaio will join Truist from MUFG, while Chief Information Security Officer Howard Whyte has experience at Boeing, Goldman Sachs and the FDIC.

The Change Company, a lender to Black, Hispanic and low-income borrowers, was set to merge with the former quarterback’s blank-check company. Steven Sugarman, a onetime Banc of California chief, says his company is now in talks with other investors and inviting banks to use a new digital marketplace for its loans.

Faster payments would help the economy in general and individuals and small businesses in particular. It's time for banks to step up.

The Los Angeles company, set Thursday to complete a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company and raise more than $3 billion in a stock offering, plans to develop new banking and cryptocurrency-related services this year, CEO Jason Wilk says.

Two co-founders of the company are expected to give depositions this month in a suit brought by an entrepreneur who says one of them stole her idea of providing credit to immigrants and turned it into a multimillion-dollar venture. Petal denies the allegations.