Payment processor TabaPay said it has agreed to acquire the operating assets of Synapse Financial Technologies, a troubled banking-as-service fintech. According to TabaPay, the sale follows Synapse’s ...

Banks involved in the mess caused by the collapse of fintech middleman Synapse have made progress piecing together account information for customers that could result in a release of funds in a matter ...

Jelena McWilliams, bankruptcy trustee for Synapse Financial and former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said the bankruptcy of the fintech middleware firm in April has been "devastating" ...

Last year, the fintech startup world — star of the 2021 venture capital heydays — began to unravel as VC funding grew tight. As we step into mid-2024, large chunks of the sector today are a downright ...

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How can we ensure Synapse is the last instance when a middleware banking-as-a-service (BaaS) partnership implodes? Millions of Americans use neobank accounts to hold their deposits and make payments, ...

Co-written with Jai Liester. Silent synapses represent one of neuroscience's most fascinating discoveries—connections between neurons that lie dormant until activated by specific triggers. These ...

Whether in the brain or in the muscles, wherever there are nerve cells, there are synapses. These contact points between neurons form the basis for the transmission of excitation, the communication ...

Whether picking up a small object like a pen or coordinating different body parts, the cerebellum in the brain performs essential functions for controlling our movement. Researchers investigated how a ...