Technology

American Banker research finds that while more than 30% agree buy now/pay later is good for banks and consumers, the majority of respondents are unconvinced.

The case exposes a systemic risk for banks: incident-response and ransomware-negotiation firms receive sensitive breach details that a corrupted insider can sell back to the attackers.

Hokodo, a British business-to-business buy now/pay later fintech, has shut down after eight years. Its closure offers important lessons about the future of the concept.

Three of the biggest names in private credit moved to reassure investors this week about the AI risks facing their software borrowers.

The president's son has seemingly cut ties with the digital asset fintech ALT5 Sigma, whose shares lost 90% of their value after purchasing the tokens.

New York extracted $5 million and a broker registration from Uphold over its promotion of CredEarn, a yield product whose issuer collapsed in 2020.

President and CEO Enrique Lores, who took the payment company's top job in March, is looking to turn the company around with fresh talent and a renewed focus on what he says are the company's fundamentals.

Banks have publicly said they're on top of the risk presented by Anthropic's Claude Mythos, which can find and exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed. Experts aren't as sure.

Jerome Powell isn't Fed chair anymore, but he's staying on the board, which might be uncomfortable for his successor.

Schwab services 16,000 RIAs with 2,000 different fee structures. According to the industry's largest custodian, the exact costs come down to "a very personalized negotiation" with the firms.