Top Fintech News Stories for August 30, 2021

Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:

  • Affirm shares soar on news of Amazon partnership for buy now, pay later – CNBC
  • Crypto Firms Want Fed Payment Systems Access—and Banks Are Resisting – The Wall Street Journal
  • Podcast 312: Dan Snyder of Lower – LendIt Fintech
  • Canadian Fintech Flinks Acquires $103M Investment from National Bank of Canada – CrowdFund Insider
  • Banco Inter Acquires FinTech Startup USEND – PYMNTS.com
  • Regulators urge banks to assess risk in teaming with fintechs – American Banker
  • Data hoards are bad for competition and for the economy. – Forbes
  • Credit unions enlist fintechs to vie with commercial, challenger banks – American Banker
  • How The Pandemic Changed Mobile Payments – Forbes
  • Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure – TechCrunch