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The companies on our third annual list of Best Fintechs to Work For (a ranking compiled by our parent company, Arizent) share an ability to create personal connections with employees, and offer top-tier benefits like generous sabbaticals, fully paid insurance, and parental leave on day one.

Brian McKay will lead the Greensville, S.C.-based credit union beginning in April

The bank is offering big bonuses to hire new financial advisors; recent share repurchases have raised the cost of future rebuys.

The Toronto firm, Canada’s fifth-largest lender by assets, must keep “a careful eye on costs” and improve efficiency, its CEO said in a corporate memo.

The Financial Services Committee will also hold hearings next month on monetary policy, the CFPB and "astroturfing" worries, among other things.

JPMorgan Chase plans to dismiss several hundred workers from its consumer unit as the lender seeks to rein in costs, according to people briefed on the matter.

All three executives began as tellers and have been with the institution for a dozen years or more.

The regulators plan to drop the 3% limit on bank investments in venture capital funds; Visa invests in another fintech startup.

Until the gender gap of the technology, banking and payment industries change, innovation will continue to be impacted, says Itemize's Samantha Fisher.