Despite strong interest among consumers, and the desire among a number of banks and credit unions to up their digital banking games, Google announced that it is scuttling its plans to launch the Google Plex checking account.

The number of TikTok users (or Square CashApp users, for that matter) isn’t what’s important here. The Square-TikTok partnership is about merchants—or more specifically, the set of merchants or small businesses increasingly being called “creators.”

Last fall, Hippo CEO Assaf Wand spoke optimistically about going public through a SPAC. One year later, things haven’t turned out quite as planned.

Open banking is seeing growing interest in the payments industry, as shown by TrueLayer's $130m funding round that has seen it reach unicorn status for the first time.

The reality of 2021: It is—or at least it should be—just as easy to access a human representative from a bank via a digital channel (i.e., web or mobile app) as it is by walking into a bank branch or calling the contact center.

In the metaverse, where tokens of all kinds are bought and sold in transparent marketplaces, the laws of supply and demand can operate under the sunshine of privacy-enhancing digital identity services to deliver new ways of creating value.

CDP is the world's largest environmental disclosure platform. An interview with Ateli Iyalla, MD CDP North America about the formidable CDP microscope on E in ESG.

Flush with money from eager investors, a growing number of cryptocurrency platforms including Crypto.com and FTX are spending big to reach a mainstream audience through deals with teams and players such as the Philadelphia 76ers and Tom Brady.

In 2020, Remitly's revenue doubled, reaching $256 million. Most of its customers are immigrants living in the U.S. who send money to their families and friends in India, the Philippines and Mexico.

While financial losses represent a perpetual pain point, for the first time ‘customer experience impact’ has ranked at the number one fraud concern that merchants have.

The recent Mailchimp acquisition teaches us valuable startup lessons. Business cycles come and go. But to build a business that can survive over the long-term requires a strong foundation. What does this mean for fintechs (and all startups)?

The funding round was led by Lone Pine Capital and included previous backers 1835i Ventures, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner’s DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Sequoia Capital China.

Over the first four years of the Forbes Blockchain 50, the list of billion-dollar companies making meaningful use of the technology popularized by bitcoin, has become a bellwether of institutional adoption.

Earlier this week, a group of more than 150 people published a paper called “GAIN Digital Trust: how Financial Institutions are taking a leadership role in the Digital Economy by establishing a Global Assured Identity Network”. Maybe this International Identity Day, things are about to change.

Thanks to fintech innovation in mobile and digital technology, there has been a massive migration in payment products and services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that help ease the access and management of capital.

The ride-hailing and delivery giant said that its $40 billion deal with a U.S. special purpose acquisition company is likely to be completed in the fourth quarter.

A new crop of fintech startups like Chime, Aspiration, and Daylight is emerging to take on traditional banks—and de-emphasizing the importance of geography in banking. They're proving that affinity is the new community.