News Topic: Fintech

Aspiration, Wealthfront and SoFi have all begun offering high-yield savings accounts during the past few weeks. ... Read full article

Bank of America, MX and Carolina Fintech Hub are training refugees and nontechies to become developers while at the same time showing corporate citizenship. ... Read full article

Mike Cagney, the former embattled chief executive of Social Finance, has a new startup that plans to announce a $65 million funding round on Wednesday, bolstering the lending company's expansion into other financial services, including wealth ... Read full article

The drudgery of filling out forms and changing bills prevents many customers from swapping banks. One fintech has simplified that exchange, and banks are willing to pay it to deliver them new customers. ... Read full article

The former deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shares his thoughts on the bureau's evolution, payday lending, and fintech regulation. ... Read full article

These fintechs know how to have a good time. Novel employee benefits from the companies that made SourceMedia's 2019 list include cooking classes, weekly dance parties and free trips. ... Read full article

A collaboration between SourceMedia and the Best Companies Group, the list is derived from reviews of employer benefits and policies and comprehensive surveys filled out by the companies' employees. ... Read full article

Every week starts and ends the same way — with meetings where departments can share successes and challenges. It’s one way the payments company ensures cross-collaboration. ... Read full article

Some companies on SourceMedia’s Best Fintechs to Work For list offer their employees extra time off to live boldly. ... Read full article

A look at the difference in responses between employees working for companies that made the list and those that did not. ... Read full article

Three years ago, the New York-based fintech started organizing a monthly gathering for its female employees. The meetings have helped participants find role models. ... Read full article

Nap pods and beanbag chairs are nice, but what employees really care about are personal respect and generous compensation. Oh, and it helps to be dog-friendly. ... Read full article

Personal loan balances hit an all-time high in 2018, while fintech lenders widened their market share lead over banks and credit unions, according to new data from TransUnion. ... Read full article

Critics of the merger need to recognize the competitive threat banks face from big tech and other innovators. ... Read full article

The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs. ... Read full article

CEO Corbat says “thousands” of call center jobs may be lost; Barclays shareholder sells all stock in the bank and Deutsche’s biggest slashes its stake. ... Read full article

Banks want to encourage innovation by extending access to outside developers, but customer data remains vulnerable while in use by an application. ... Read full article

The company's expansion into new business lines could help offset recent declines in loan volume. ... Read full article