In the tug-of-war between banks and third parties over who controls access to customer account data, payments are primed to play a key role as banks start to take action and regulators begin to weigh in.

Bankers cannot say that real-time doesn’t matter or that the status quo is fine, according to Neocova's Sultan Meghji and Kelsey Weaver.

As the fintech industry looks for ways to bring on more women, crossover hiring — recruiting from traditional financial services firms to fintechs — has emerged as an effective strategy, Donna Parisi of Shearman & Sterling and Michelle Tran of NYC Fintech Women write.

The Amazon effect in financial services will be much bigger than the one experienced by the retail industry—it will have a deeper impact due to the financial services industry being bigger and more vulnerable, and because consumers are now more comfortable with change, says TigerGraph's Todd Blaschka.

Firms such as Afterpay that offer financing to shoppers have been enjoying rapid growth. But their model is under scrutiny from regulators, being mimicked by credit card lenders and faces heightened risks in a downturn.

Financial institutions need to alert customers about emails or websites that pretend to offer important COVID-19 information but instead could end up stealing their account numbers or logins.

As the fintech industry looks for ways to boost the number of women, crossover hiring – recruiting from traditional financial service firms to fintechs – has emerged as an effective strategy, according to Shearman & Sterling's Donna Parisi and NYC Fintech Women's Michelle Tran.

Amazon's dominance of the smart speaker segment makes it well positioned to turn an increasingly work-from-home culture into a voice-shopping powerhouse.

The agency's recent update to its guidelines for banks on working with data aggregators and other third parties was not extreme, but some critics say its heavy emphasis on security could be a setback for open banking.

The annual CULytics conference on the Microsoft campus outside Seattle is the second industry event to be postponed in less than a week.

The credit education provider plans to use its deep knowledge of credit scoring to advise account holders on how to improve their scores and cash management simultaneously.

Artificial intelligence has given merchants and banks handling payment data a fighting chance against fraud because it essentially pits machine against machine in compiling data and establishing prevention algorithms.

The Treasury secretary’s recent Senate testimony coming down on cryptocurrencies is misguided. Regulations should require building better blockchain technology at the banks.

Mobile financial network provider Rapyd is embedding its open development tools with Brazilian processors to support payments in any local method.

Payment firms and fintechs can use open source and the cloud for a potent innovation combo, says Asset Control's Mark Hermeling.

The all-digital bank is hoping to win over consumers with above-average savings rates and more detailed analysis of their spending habits.

A handful of banks keep trying to make the customer-Alexa connection happen; banks are more worried about payments firms than other types of fintechs; how financial institutions are coping with COVID-19; and more from this week’s most-read stories.

The challenge has been aligning the data-sharing ecosystem in a way that simplifies access and enhances consumer control while ensuring a high level of security, says Finicity's Steve Smith.

The Reserve Bank of India has temporarily halted operations at the struggling Yes Bank, leaving fintechs without a place to process payments.

FirstBank, the initial customer of the startup Finxact, sought a modern core system that jibes with fast payments and other new technologies.