Identity authentication company TrustStamp was named the “Audience Choice” winner at the fifth annual FIS Fintech Accelerator program’s Demo Day. Further, FIS and the State of Arkansas jointly announced the program’s extension into 2021.

Ensuring consumers have the tools necessary to understand how the ever-blurring line between technology companies and banks impacts their services was at core of a virtually hosted congressional hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 29.

As the world celebrated the godfather of banking, Cosimo Medici, on World Fintech Day, one can’t help but wonder what he would think about the institution he helped create now holding currency that, well, can’t really be held at all.

Add Florida and Israel to the list of places willing to let fintechs roam a little freer as both locations are opening up new sandboxes for companies to explore. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed into law new legislation, HB 1391, to create a financial technology sandbox through the state’s Office of Financial Regulation.