Fintech

Fraudsters continue to impersonate owners of small and midsize businesses at a rate comparable to the early days of the pandemic. Many lenders can take simple steps to mitigate it.

Discover, Capital One and other issuers began effortlessly reaping strong deposit inflows months before the banking crisis. The trend may not last much longer.

The credit card firm attracted new business in part from the consumers who were moving their funds over from traditional banks.

Amazon Pay — which provides one-click checkout on thousands of e-commerce sites — has added support for Citi Flex Pay, Citigroup's point-of-sale credit card loans, as competition for buy now/pay later customers expands to digital wallets.

Visa halts single-click payments in India, ING uses recycled beach plastic for payment cards and more.

U.S. consumers may earn 3.92% interest on their account balances, with the choice to add pass-through Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage through JPMorgan Chase for up to $250,000 of funds.

The card network has a new policy to determine who pays when consumers dispute certain e-commerce transactions, but many smaller sellers are unaware of new requirements and may run afoul of them.

The regional firm, whose parent is the 10th largest bank in the world by market capitalization, is eager to pitch top advisors seeking stability. At the same time, it's ramping up a major branding campaign with Major League Soccer and Apple to woo next-generation clients.

The regional bank started making moves to protect deposits last year, which prevented steeper declines during a volatile first quarter, CEO Tim Spence says.

Despite slower new-account growth, the card network had healthy overall sales, loan growth and deposit inflows in the first quarter. The performance gave credence to its ambitions to become a digital banking giant.