It can feel as though every week there’s a new stablecoin announcement from a traditional financial player. The one thing they all have in common? For the most part, they aren’t taking place in the U.S. But, as U.S. lawmakers circulate an updated draft agreement...
The business landscape moves fast, and that can leave reactive businesses a step behind their more proactive competitors. But today’s increasingly digital landscape is full of opportunity for firms looking to transition their legacy back-office processes, such as accounts payable (AP), from passive operations to...
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Many financial technology firms have historically sought to compete with credit unions by offering their own financial services and credit products to lure credit union members into their fold. That’s no longer a hard and fast approach. The...
In the FinTech space, 2025 is shaping up to feel a bit like 2019. This time around, all eyes are on embedded payments, in a nod to the new ways in which transactions are being woven into the fabric of eCommerce and enterprise business models....
August 31, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With SoFi’s Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore Former Visa executive Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore is three months into her new role as president of SoFi Technology Solutions. The premise guiding her strategy is that banks, credit unions and software platforms each know their customers in different ways, and SoFi can provide the financial technology to help […]
May 13, 2025
The business landscape moves fast, and that can leave reactive businesses a step behind their more proactive competitors. But today’s increasingly digital landscape is full of opportunity for firms looking...
November 05, 2024
Bigger doesn’t always mean better across financial services — especially when it comes to innovation. And as financial technology reshapes the payments industry, even smaller, regional credit unions are finding...
May 29, 2024
The technology for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) already exists. And as dozens of countries around the world have proven, in less time than it took to read this sentence,...
July 30, 2024
The Bank of England (BoE) is conducting a new series of experiments with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for retail use. Citing growing innovations and risks in the payments industry, BoE said in a Tuesday (July 30) discussion paper that “central banks must be quick to engage with them and prepare for their implications” in a […]
June 05, 2024
Brazilian online lender Inter&Co is expanding its efforts in the United States, with a focus on replicating its success in Brazil’s online banking sector. With a customer base of 32 million...
April 02, 2024
PSCU/Co-op Solutions has launched a program designed to facilitate collaboration between credit unions and FinTech companies. The new Fintech Engagement Program includes both vetted FinTech companies and credit unions that are looking to...
February 02, 2024
Three members of Congress have asked the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) for information about how it will provide regulatory guidance for FinTech firms and other financial innovators. This request was driven...
