Fintech

FinTech company Avant filed an application to establish an insured national bank called Avant Bank, N.A., the company said in a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. Avant filed the application for ...

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Revolut’s co-founder and CEO says the FinTech is considering a dual London and New York stock market listing. In an interview Thursday (Sept. 17) with French newspaper Les Echos, Nik Storonsky said the company wanted ...

Last week, Revolut revealed that customer data had been exposed in an email scam. Now, the U.K. FinTech is dealing with extortion threats from a hacker claiming to have perpetrated the ...

Saudi Arabia-based buy now, pay later FinTech Tabby has raised $230 million in new funding. The financing, announced Monday (Sept. 14), values Tabby at $6.5 billion and will be used to expand the company’s buy ...

Online financial services company Enova has withdrawn its bank regulatory applications related to the proposed acquisition of Grasshopper Bancorp, saying in a Monday (Sept. 14) press release that the process ...

Bank sponsorship has been a staple of merchant acquiring in the United States. A payments company can provide the technology, process the transaction and manage the merchant relationship, while relying on ...

Fiserv aims to tap several growth opportunities by bringing together the capabilities of its Financial Solutions (FS) and Merchant Solutions (MS) segments, which have operated separately, and operating as one ...

Digital assets may reach the checkout faster by asking consumers to change less about how they pay. The July 2026 Payments Innovation Tracker, “From Asset to Everyday Money: Making Digital Currencies ...

An email-based scam has reportedly led to the leak of Revolut customer data. The British FinTech says sensitive information from a “limited number” of customers was exposed in a scam in ...

FinTechs are finding more growth in large corporate relationships, whether by winning larger customers or handling more of the financial activity of companies they already serve. Revolut, for example, is targeting ...

MoonPay has acquired Rhythm, an on-chain trading signals platform, to promote the adoption of online trading, MoonPay said in a press release emailed to PYMNTS. Rhythm’s technology and its three co-founders, ...

FinTechs once saw credit unions as a hard market to crack. Now the door is crowded, and many providers want a way inside. “FinTechs Want In: How Credit Unions Can Turn ...

The latest wave of bank charter activity is producing institutions that may share a federal regulator while bearing little resemblance to one another. Revolut wants a national bank that could take ...

Latin American eCommerce and FinTech firm MercadoLibre is tapping global debt markets for only the third time, seeking proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Sept. ...

Visa has launched a program designed to help stablecoin-linked card programs and FinTechs access working capital through on-chain lending, the company said in a Monday (Sept. 8) press release. By combining ...

Amusement resort operator Six Flags is pushing into the buy now, pay later space, according to a Monday (Sept. 7) press release. The company teamed with FinTech Upgrade to introduce Flex ...

Embedded finance can bring banks deposits, fee income and assets generated through somebody else’s distribution. Earnings results showed banks don’t all want the same mix. Fifth Third is growing deposits and ...

Diameter Pay has reportedly raised $10 million in a Series A funding round as the stablecoin payments infrastructure provider looks to expand its banking, payments and digital asset capabilities. The round ...

U.K.-based FinTech Revolut is one step closer to launching its American banking business. The company announced Thursday (Sept. 3) that it had received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ...

Financial services technology company FIS has launched its embedded banking platform. The platform is the company’s first embedded finance offering created especially for banks, letting lenders offer banking services directly within the business software ...

Payment infrastructure platform TabaPay says it plans to acquire Colorado’s Transact Bank. The company announced that deal Wednesday (Sept. 2) along with the news that it had secured a $155 million strategic growth financing led by ...

FIS has launched a collaboration with tech company Ericsson centered around “wallet-led” financial services. The partnership will see FIS payments and issuing capabilities integrated with the Ericsson Fintech Platform, helping clients ...

FinTech buyers looking for growth in a tough funding and software market are finding something valuable inside real estate closings, municipal bills, healthcare practices and commercial banking. The payment is already ...

California is positioning itself to fill the regulatory space left by Washington’s retreat from consumer financial oversight, with former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra bringing his enforcement philosophy ...

Earnings season is showing that bank modernization demand is landing in faster payments, cloud and digital banking, and artificial intelligence tools aimed at credit, fraud and other defined operating workflows. The ...

A primary financial relationship loses some of its value when the provider can see only a fraction of the customer’s money. Consumers now routinely distribute checking, savings, credit and investments among ...

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s charter-granting activity doesn’t just show that a new rash of financial services firms are successfully becoming banks or bank-like institutions. The applications, ...

Venture capital firm Fiat Ventures is rebranding after closing its oversubscribed $35 million fund. The fund invests in early-state startups at the intersections of FinTech, financial access and artificial intelligence (AI), ...

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U.K. FinTech investments have reached a 10-year low amid an overall jump in funding. British financial technology firms took in around $2.5 billion during the first six months of 2026, a ...

The card-issuing platforms that grew up alongside, and serving, FinTechs are following their customers into businesses that have little to do with issuing another card. There is a common commercial calculation ...

The next frontier in working capital management isn’t squeezing another day out of receivables or stretching another day of payables. It’s deciding whether those dollars should be financed the same ...

Banks repeatedly perform similar due diligence on technology providers, and an industry-standards effort involving the federal regulators would make portions of that work reusable across institutions. A July 21 draft term ...

A Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)-observed pilot is testing whether completed customer verification work can be documented in standardized records and evaluated by other financial institutions. The pilot is being coordinated ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is considering an industry-led standards organization that could certify FinTech companies and other bank service providers against common risk-management benchmarks, potentially reshaping how banks vet ...

FinTech PointsKash has secured a strategic capital commitment of up to $100 million from Hawk Capital Advisors to support the national rollout of its FinTech, payments, loyalty rewards and digital commerce offerings, PointsKash ...

The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia Bank’s long-running fight for access to the Federal Reserve’s payment system, warning that a lower-court ruling could give ...

Monzo’s chairman is  departing the British neobank months after shareholders lobbied for his removal. Gary Hoffman, who joined Monzo in 2019, will leave his post next month, the company said in ...

A federal review that could influence how FinTech firms partner with banks, pursue charters and reach the payment system comes due Monday (Aug. 17), although the public may not get ...

Mastercard is proposing to pay half the amount demanded by Brazilian merchant acquirers that were impacted by the collapse of Will Financeira, also known as Will Bank, a FinTech tied ...

Chime Financial is considering adding stablecoins as a feature in its consumer banking app, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. The FinTech asked blockchain technology companies to submit proposals ...

Trade finance is stuck in a paradox. The world has plenty of goods to trade, but financing them safely keeps getting harder. That gap is now FinTechs’ opening to challenge ...