The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today announced three steps to advance its strategy on one of its key priorities: preventing consumer harm.

Marqeta announced today that it has been selected to partner with Afterpay, the leader in “Buy Now, Pay Later” payments, to help accelerate its growth in the U.S. market and support new innovative product offerings for its customers.

Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s most impactful business lenders, has surpassed the £1bn mark for lending to SMEs and housebuilders across the UK, just seven years from being set up in 2013.

Empower, a mobile banking app in the US challenger bank category, has raised $20 million in Series A funding, with participation from Icon Ventures, Defy Ventures, and David Velez, founder and CEO of Brazil's Nubank.

New technologies are upending banking and finance, often in unforeseeable ways. Financial institutions now must find better ways to deliver the services their customers expect, whether it’s money management, investing, trading, or making payments.

Data is behind all the technologies that are revolutionising finance. Whether it be blockchain, machine learning, or high-speed trading, fintech requires rapid access to huge – and ever-growing - volumes of data.

Full-service card acquirer and payment service provider, Truevo, has announced the launch of their point of sale solution into the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta today. Previously, Truevo has specialised in online, mobile and push payment solutions, so this offering marks the broadening of their product range into the card-present industry.

Mambu’s cloud-native platform will allow Nimble to develop innovative lending products in-house, at a rapid pace, while the company begins to explore potential options and experiments with core digital banking product capability.

 With just over a month to go until the SFTR go-live date for some market participants, most notably banks and many investment firms, regulatory reporting, best execution analysis and business intelligence market leader, Cappitech, has put together some tips and tricks for firms getting ready to report now or later in the year. Below is a brief summary.