Fintech

Midterm fallout, Synchrony's Walmart fight, Waters' banking agenda: Top stories of the week

11/09/18

What the Democrats' House takeover means for banks; Synchrony has a lot to lose in fight with Walmart; should industry fear Waters-led banking panel?; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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Fintechs to law enforcement: Let’s be partners, not adversaries

11/09/18

A new group aims to foster collaboration between fintechs and state and federal officials in the fight against crime — without hindering legitimate business innovation.

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'Not a good omen for the industry': Comments of the week

11/08/18

Readers sound off on the 2018 midterm election results, OCC's Otting defending his agency's right to charter fintechs, and predictions the plastic credit card is nearly dead.

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Sizing up the real fintech threat to banks

11/07/18

Will it be a bigfoot from Amazon, Google and Apple, or death by a thousand bites from niche rivals? Or can banks rally and fend off the insurgents?

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Fintechs interested in OCC charter despite lawsuits: Otting

11/07/18

The head of the agency developing the special-purpose federal license said the process is moving forward “independent” of legal challenges mounted by state regulators.

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JPMorgan backs fintech seeking to disrupt trillion-dollar market

11/07/18

One of the world's biggest banks wants to boost profits by cutting out voice brokers acting as middlemen in the largest derivatives market.

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Small banks join forces to address fintech challenges

11/07/18

The consortium is starting out with a dozen banks and could have 50 within a year.

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Politics vs. innovation: How the midterms changed fintech

11/07/18

The payments and financial services industry has enjoyed an unprecedented wave of invention, but the fruits of that labor are threatened by an ideologically driven political climate that complicates the evolution of global interoperable mobile-driven commerce.

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Build better tools to build better customer relationships

11/07/18

Tech innovation isn't just about creating more bells and whistles. It can also help deepen client bonds.

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Credit Karma to gain a footing in the U.K.

11/06/18

Credit Karma has agreed to buy a credit reporting company that TransUnion initially sought to develop as the fintech's British equivalent.

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