Financial Services news and trends

Fiserv Acquires StoneCastle to Add Insured Deposit Funding Solutions

December 17, 2025
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EU Finance Ministers Set to Call for Simpler Financial Services Regulations
Regulation // December 10, 2025

European Union finance ministers will reportedly press for simplification of the bloc’s financial services laws when the ministers meet on Friday (Dec. 12). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

SoFi Debuts Debit Rewards With New Member Card 
Banking // December 10, 2025

Digital financial services firm SoFi has debuted its “all-in-one account” Smart Card. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...

Plaid Launches Predictive Transaction Categories to Support AI for Banks
artificial intelligence // December 03, 2025

Financial data network Plaid has launched transaction categories enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) that it said will provide the accuracy and insight needed for the next generation of financial services. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

No More Walled Gardens As Multicloud Agility Comes to Financial Services
Technology // December 01, 2025

For most of the past decade, the cloud landscape has resembled a giant, digital land grab. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...

Interviews & Exclusives
Big Firms Test AI Agents as Internal Teams Race to Build Guardrails

December 01, 2025
The last few Prompt Economy Weekly features have focused on trust and technical security for agentic AI. Seeing as how security is a prerequisite for its consistent usage, that focus was spot-on and will continue to be an issue. But this week was something of a litmus test for the Prompt Economy. It marked the […]

Real Time Was Yesterday. Right Time Is the New Race.

October 22, 2025
Embedded finance has become a survival requirement, Galileo Financial Technologies Chief Product Officer David Feuer writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Headlines That Will Shape the Close of 2025.” Get...

Stablecoins, Not FinTechs, Are Forcing Community Banks to Rethink the Future

September 11, 2025
FinTech challengers and challenger banks are called such because it encompasses what they represent: a challenge to the offerings of the traditional banking sector, particularly smaller and regional lenders and...

Bank Earnings Spotlight Transition to Back-Office Solutions

July 22, 2025
Perhaps one of the 21st century’s most defining business trends has been the trickledown effect of enterprise capabilities as technological innovations simplify back-office operations.  Get the Full Story Complete the...

Quick Reads
Fiserv Acquires StoneCastle to Add Insured Deposit Funding Solutions

December 17, 2025
Fiserv completed its acquisition of StoneCastle Cash Management and will integrate the company’s institutional deposit network with the Fiserv ecosystem. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you […]

EU Finance Ministers Set to Call for Simpler Financial Services Regulations

December 10, 2025
European Union finance ministers will reportedly press for simplification of the bloc’s financial services laws when the ministers meet on Friday (Dec. 12). Get the Full Story Complete the form...

SoFi Debuts Debit Rewards With New Member Card 

December 10, 2025
Digital financial services firm SoFi has debuted its “all-in-one account” Smart Card. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Plaid Launches Predictive Transaction Categories to Support AI for Banks

December 03, 2025
Financial data network Plaid has launched transaction categories enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) that it said will provide the accuracy and insight needed for the next generation of financial services....