Fintechs have shifted their work cultures as a result of the pandemic. Some companies are offering hybrid work models, while others are letting employees decide what format suits them best.

MoneyLion, a New York-based fintech that offers banking, investing, loans and other financial services, announced that it acquired MALKA Media, a content studio and platform that helps creators reach consumers.

Walmart is making progress on laying out the vision and focus for its new fintech venture, a new report suggests.

Starling Bank, a U.K.-based digital bank, says it will launch a technology offering called “Starling-as-a-Service” for European clients next year.

Last week, MoneyLion, a digital challenger bank, merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Revolut, a London-based digital banking fintech worth $33B, is facing blowback over a 2.75% surcharge levied on former employees who will participate in an upcoming secondary share sale.

Credit reporting company TransUnion announced plans to acquire Neustar, a Virginia-based company that offers real-time business information and analysis tools that help businesses find new customers and determine which ads should serve them.

If Walmart’s fintech offering will be called Hazel, then Walgreens is going Scarlet. The pharmacy chain this week launched a bank account, debit card and personal finance planning tools under the Scarlet brand name.

Popular investing, savings and personal finance app Acorns is partnering with Cricket Wireless in a bid to encourage customers to save while paying their phone bills.

Fintech MoneyLion, which began as a lending and personal-finance platform and more recently added banking and investing, is pursuing a financial “super app” strategy to grow its customer base.

A 2018 by Medici report provides anecdotal evidence of a 10% survival rate for bootstrapped fintech startups.

Five months after U.S. regulators scuttled Visa’s Plaid acquisition, the payments giant announced it’s planning to acquire open banking startup Tink, which was established in 2012.

Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank will acquire Provide, an 8-year-old startup that focuses on building financial products that make starting and running a healthcare practice easy, including practice lending, business bank accounts, and insurance. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.