Bank technology giants FIS and Fiserv are spending nearly $66 billion between them in just the past few weeks to add a broad swath of payments technology — including a few key nuggets that will help them go toe to toe with fintechs.

JPMorgan Chase said it wants to improve training for technology-related jobs and help community college programs. The five-year initiative is one of several the company has announced in recent years in the name of community development.

The Federal Housing Administration is returning to manual reviews of higher-risk loans it insures because it's finding that a growing share have lower credit scores, higher debt-to-income ratios, or both.

The tech company has taken World Wire, its blockchain-based cross-border payments network, live in 72 countries.

The financial services technology company FIS has agreed to buy Worldpay. The deal is valued at $43 billion and will allow FIS to counter the transaction processing scale Fiserv received when it acquired First Data this year. The merger price is based on a $34 billion bid plus $9 billion of Worldpay's debt.

An overwhelming amount of transactions can cause noncompliant payments to fall through cracks. New technology such as AI can be helpful, says Josephine McCann, a senior marketing associate at AppZen.

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CULedger and the computing giant will work to develop blockchain technologies, create new products and improve existing ones.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors urged Sens. Mike Crapo and Sherrod Brown to establish a baseline for consumer protection in data privacy and security that would leave room for stricter state rules.

A proactive and preventive security strategy will go a long way to building consumer trust and ensuring continued loyalty, writes Maria Allen, global head of financial services for Unisys.

A partnership between TDECU and a Texas-based fintech will help provide payment plans for consumers struggling to pay legal fees.

Municipal IDs help marginalized groups, such as undocumented immigrants, open checking accounts and become credit union members but concerns over regulatory compliance linger.

Regulators have taken a critical look at AML controls and handed out significant fines to financial institutions found to be lacking, according to Chad Hetherington, global vice president of professional services for NICE Actimize.

Software startups say bringing borrowers, builders and lenders onto one digital platform can remove some of the risks lenders faced during the crisis.

Seven years after James Gutierrez left Oportun Financial and started a competitor, the acrimony sparked by the divorce is coming into public view.

Chime, Chart IQ, Starling Bank and several other startups have raised millions of dollars from venture capital and private-equity firms this year. Here's what they plan to do with their haul.

Fintech investors, including Goldman Sachs, see opportunity in Mexico; firm’s growth in lending could be a problem if economy goes south.

The days of odd emails are gone. Phishing has become a complex big business for crooks, according to Rafael Lourenco, an executive vice president at ClearSale.

Leading investors say too many traditional financial institutions, out of their depth in fintech investment, end up imposing controls that slow down otherwise nimble young companies.

Flourish, a fund backed by Pierre and Pam Omidyar, invests in startups that address social and financial inequities yet (key caveat) are still promising moneymakers, a top official of the fund explains.