FinTech

Financial technology, often shortened to fintech, is the technology and innovation that aims to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services. It is an emerging industry that uses technology to improve activities in finance.

Banks Find Item-Level Receipt Data Key to Fighting Friendly Fraud
Banks Find Item-Level Receipt Data Key to Fighting Friendly Fraud
March 20, 2023  |  Data

With privacy top of mind for most consumers, opting into using receipt data may require collection transparency. Item-level receipt data integration has gained increasing attention....

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Fiserv and Central Payments Team to Help Businesses Launch Financial Products
Fiserv and Central Payments Team to Help Businesses Launch Financial Products
March 20, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Fiserv and Central Payments have teamed up to help companies launch new financial products. The new collaboration brings together Fiserv’s payments and financial services technology...

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EU FinTechs Give EMI ‘Safeguarding’ Policy a Fresh Look Post SVB Collapse
EU FinTechs Give EMI ‘Safeguarding’ Policy a Fresh Look Post SVB Collapse
March 20, 2023  |  Banking

If there’s a lesson that FinTechs must learn from Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse, it’s the need to diversify their banking partners to include electronic...

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ForwardAI Debuts Update to Small Business Lending Solution
ForwardAI Debuts Update to Small Business Lending Solution
March 19, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Business data FinTech ForwardAI has unveiled an update to its Precise API tool to help streamline financial decisions.  First launched in 2021, Precise is an application programming interface (API)...

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Biden Wants Tougher Penalties for Bank Executives; HFSC Announces Hearing
Biden Wants Tougher Penalties for Bank Executives; HFSC Announces Hearing
March 17, 2023  |  Regulation

The investigations into recent bank failures are just beginning. President Joe Biden released a statement Friday (March 17) calling on Congress to impose tougher penalties on senior...

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SVB Parent Files for Bankruptcy as Global Banking Market Wobbles
SVB Parent Files for Bankruptcy as Global Banking Market Wobbles
March 17, 2023  |  Legal

This tumultuous week began and ended the same: with Silicon Valley Bank still for sale.  Only now, the lender’s former parent company, SVB Financial Group, has officially filed...

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SVB Collapse Has Companies Reviewing Financing, Cash Management Strategies
SVB Collapse Has Companies Reviewing Financing, Cash Management Strategies
March 17, 2023  |  CFO

Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) failure killed the argument that midsize banks pose no systemic risk.  Chief Financial Officers and corporate treasurers have gotten the message, and company...

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Tiger, SoftBank Writedowns of Private Tech Holdings Signal Chilling Effect for FinTechs
Tiger, SoftBank Writedowns of Private Tech Holdings Signal Chilling Effect for FinTechs
March 17, 2023  |  Startups

Valuation of investments and companies remains an exercise in paper gains and paper losses. Nothing’s final until the investor, the VC fund or the mutual...

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Treasury Prime Launches Multibank Network to Diversify FinTech Banking Risk
Treasury Prime Launches Multibank Network to Diversify FinTech Banking Risk
March 15, 2023  |  Digital-First Banking

If the past week has taught us anything, it’s not to put all your eggs in one banking basket. That’s especially true for FinTechs and...

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