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The challenger bank now offers small businesses checking, lending and payments services on one platform and can link them through Plaid to external bank accounts.

Alliance Data plans to make Bread’s buy now, pay later options available to credit card-issuing merchant clients.

A Small Business Administration program meant to help struggling entrepreneurs amid the coronavirus pandemic may have sent billions of dollars to scammers or ineligible applicants, the agency’s inspector general said.

Renaud Laplanche's fintech will give borrowers cash back when they lower their loan balances.

Small businesses need a new round of loans and aid from the government to keep employees working as the pandemic continues to spread, SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza said.

Expect to see other credit card companies join the race to customize rewards to customers to maximize appeal and customer lifetime value, says RevTrax's Jonathan Treiber.

The bank is scaling back how it distributes research to clients, part of a push to simplify operations and lower headcount, according to people familiar with the matter.

Even as consumers shift more spending away from cash and the market for personal travel picks up, the coronavirus pandemic is still exerting a heavy toll on Mastercard's consumer and corporate spending.

A 2019 decision by Amy Coney Barrett, then a 7th Circuit judge, cited an earlier Supreme Court ruling suggesting a high bar for plaintiffs to claim harm. But other jurists have favored a less onerous standard.

The global bank, which has already closed more than 30% of its U.S. branches this year, indicated that the pandemic is prompting it to adjust its plans on the fly.