Personal loan balances hit an all-time high in 2018, while fintech lenders widened their market share lead over banks and credit unions, according to new data from TransUnion.

Immigration restrictions are a threat to London’s status as a fintech hub, enough for Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky to demand the U.K.’s government take special steps to prevent the technology talent from going elsewhere.

As large banks put stronger fraud monitoring and authentication technology in place, fraudsters have been turning to small banks, like Kennebunk Bank on the coast of Maine. Here's how it fought back.

Critics of the merger need to recognize the competitive threat banks face from big tech and other innovators.

If verdict stands, it could raise ceiling on anti-laundering penalties; better-than-expected results buy Barclays chief more time on current strategy.

The all-in-one card market has been a dead end for many years, with products like Coin, Swyp, Stratos and Plastc doomed to be mere footnotes in the history of fintech. Curve is determined to avoid the same fate, and it says PSD2 is its ticket to success.

While most early GDPR fines have been relatively low, a larger more recent fine at Google is a sign of larger levies to come, according to Karen Neuman and Federica De Santis from the privacy and cyber security practice at Goodwin.

Page views and sales results don't explain which customers do what, and why they do things (or don't do them), in online and mobile banking.

Through a partnership with Adyen, Dutch airline KLM is one of the first large merchants to adopt an online payments approach that bypasses payment cards, powered by PSD2's open banking framework.

The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs.

Transaction Network Services has entered a partnership with cloud-based mobile commerce provider P97 to provide a managed tokenization service for mobile and in-vehicle payments.

The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs.

Crooks are using techniques that move quickly, making AI a good bet when searching through many layers of transaction data, according to Jie Wu, a director at GoodData.

CEO Corbat says “thousands” of call center jobs may be lost; Barclays shareholder sells all stock in the bank and Deutsche’s biggest slashes its stake.

With real-time payments advancing, processors need to shore up security, according to David Worthington, vice president of payments at Rambus.

The company's expansion into new business lines could help offset recent declines in loan volume.

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The enforcement action from the OCC comes on the heels of a CFPB consent order that said USAA reopened customers' accounts without consent and neglected stop-payment requests.

Banks want to encourage innovation by extending access to outside developers, but customer data remains vulnerable while in use by an application.

Unauthorized exposure of any type of customer data, for any period of time, is a serious issue, writes Carl Wright, chief commercial officer of AttackIQ.