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Steve Robert, CEO of Autobooks

The fintech firm will use the $5.5 million in funding to expand its operations and improve its products.

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Bankers need to set aside their post-crisis aversion to risk, recapture some of the magic they once practiced as innovators, fear fintechs less, and worry about the Googles and Amazons more, says Peter Memon, a bank IT veteran turned global consultant.

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Curtis C. Farmer Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Comerica Incorporated and Comerica Bank

The Dallas bank turned down another offer because it thought it could get a higher price from Fifth Third, and also could ink an agreement faster, according to Comerica's latest regulatory filing.

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The payment fintech is marketing technology that lets merchants sell through AI agents; Google adds a credit card for India's national real-time payment rail. That and more in American Banker's global payments and fintech roundup.