Fintechs are facing unique challenges in the pandemic. There might be a resurgence in funding on the horizon, but startups are looking to see what they can do now to weather the storm.

The pandemic will have an impact on customer adoption of digital technologies. Financial institutions and fintechs can achieve growth by gaining consumers' trust and changing their mindset about new platforms.

There are millions of U.S. consumers who don't have access to traditional financial services. One challenger bank's mission is to help them overcome the barriers to financial inclusion.

For too long, nonbanks have been allowed to form industrial loan companies to operate as banks without Fed oversight. This regulatory pass should not be given during a crisis.

Cross-border payments do not and should not exist in a vacuum, says Veem's Marwan Forzley.

"We can control our destiny," says Colin Walsh, CEO of the challenger bank, which spent more than three years seeking to become a full-fledged bank.

The online installment lender could be worth as much as $10 billion; the GSEs' net income jumped sharply from the first quarter after the rebound in the housing market.

ZenBusiness, which provides services to small businesses, will now offer banking along with tax, accounting and insurance help.

Mastercard reported a sharp decline in payments in its most recent quarter, but some digital seeds it planted before the coronavirus pandemic are already bearing fruit.

Banks, data aggregators and fintechs have clashed for a decade over how consumers’ bank account data should be shared with third parties. The agency says it will offer a plan, and industry officials have plenty of suggestions already.

Many in the industry support the National Credit Union Administration’s attempts to streamline regulations governing corporate credit unions, but critics claimed some elements could make it tougher to compete with fintechs.

As more payment enterprises embrace the ecosystem model, we will continue to see a shift toward composable and dynamic operations flows supported by an engineering-first approach and a smart digital core, Andres Ricaurte of Mphasis says.

One way banks can prepare for a smooth cutover to new standards is by implementing a core banking / payment solution that uses ISO 20022, says Infosys Finacle's Peter Ryan.

The company has renamed itself Prove and says that the acquisition will allow it to help banks fine-tune their security procedures when serving customers.

The accounting and payroll software provider’s QuickBooks Cash account is fee-free and integrates with other products the company offers small businesses.

The pressure is on the fintech, which helps banks make digital loans, to stanch its losses and show its lofty market valuation was deserved.

The global card issuer will provide its tokenization technology for JPMorgan Chase's virtual card program in early 2021.

Digital wallets arguably reached a tipping point this spring when contactless payments jumped 40% in response to concerns that cash and payment terminals were helping to spread the coronavirus, Vidya Peters of Marqeta writes.

Bill Clerico created WePay during the last financial crisis, and sees a similar opportunity now. The coronavirus pandemic is affecting different markets in vastly different ways, and easing the flow of capital is just one way to provide help.

Over the weekend, hackers broke in through a third-party vendor to steal names, email addresses and other personally identifiable information.