Bain Capital and Reverence Capital Partners have agreed a deal to take Envestnet Inc., a provider of wealth-management software, private.blo The buyout firms will pay $63.15 a share for Berwyn, Pennsylvania-based Envestnet, according to a statement on Thursday that confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report. The offer values Envestnet at $3.5 billion on an equity basis…

Citigroup Inc. will pay almost $136 million in fines to US bank regulators over issues related to data-quality management and risk controls. The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that its penalty was for Citi violating an enforcement action from 2020. The bank will pay $61 million to the Fed and about $75 million to the Office…

I just spotted a great article about JPMorgan’s CIO who manages a $17 billion budget (last time I looked, it was $11 billion). That sort of budget makes most fintechs look like small fry. Nevertheless, how much budget goes into innovation versus keeping the lights on? How much goes into development versus salaries? How much……

Adoption of the Federal Reserve’s instant payments platform FedNow is growing, however, of the more than 800 financial institutions using it, most are doing so in receive-only mode.  Eighty-six percent of banks and 73% of credit unions are signed up with FedNow as receive-only institutions, according to a report released this year by Cornerstone Advisors.…

NEW YORK — Rocket Mortgage is working with Amazon Web Services to deploy generative AI-driven tools to make its customer relations team and internal operations more efficient. The lender selected Amazon Bedrock’s gen AI solution to develop its Synopsis tool to:   Help its customer relations team summarize calls;  Provide self-service assistance to clients through an…

I remember ten years ago when fintech was emerging from under the hood and challenger banks become a new phrase. Most of the bankers I spoke to back then said they would never be really challenging. Ten years later, the situation is rather different. Revolut has over 40 million customers and is profitable; Monzo has……

I remember ten years ago when fintech was emerging from under the hood and challenger banks become a new phrase. Most of the bankers I spoke to back then said they would never be really challenging. Ten years later, the situation is rather different. Revolut has over 40 million customers and is profitable; Monzo has……

I remember ten years ago when fintech was emerging from under the hood and challenger banks become a new phrase. Most of the bankers I spoke to back then said they would never be really challenging. Ten years later, the situation is rather different. Revolut has over 40 million customers and is profitable; Monzo has……

I remember ten years ago when fintech was emerging from under the hood and challenger banks become a new phrase. Most of the bankers I spoke to back then said they would never be really challenging. Ten years later, the situation is rather different. Revolut has over 40 million customers and is profitable; Monzo has……

I remember ten years ago when fintech was emerging from under the hood and challenger banks become a new phrase. Most of the bankers I spoke to back then said they would never be really challenging. Ten years later, the situation is rather different. Revolut has over 40 million customers and is profitable; Monzo has……