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Biometric payment cards, contactless smart-rings and a virtual marketplace created by Meta are among the latest developments in payments technology.

The ruling means that a lower court's pro-consumer decision cannot be used as a precedent in other litigation. Consumer advocates had hoped the case would make it more difficult for debt buyers in North Carolina to file a large volume of lawsuits, which often lead to default judgments against borrowers.

The company is seeing growth in use of its ExtraCash short-term loans, which are an alternative to overdrafts.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called October's positive inflation report in the U.S. "a good reading," but cautioned against relying too much on one data point.

The crisis sparked by the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire ensnared BlockFi, a troubled digital-asset lender once worth $3 billion but which has now limited activity on its platform.

Spencer Savings in New Jersey is taking investor Larry Seidman to court, alleging he's conspiring with other customers to convert the bank to stock ownership. Seidman says it's a farce: "I'm in a conspiracy with people I don't know."

A new debit card for military veterans, Google expands a billing test and more in banking news this week.

Jeff von Gillern, who heads tech and ops at U.S. Bank, will retire in a year. Global CIO Dilip Venkatachari will join the executive committee and Souheil Badran has been hired to run operations.

Wall Street is walking into a new era of risk that has bankers, lawyers and climate campaigners reaching for a different playbook.

Sam Bankman-Fried's digital-asset empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, capping a rapid downfall for the 30-year-old entrepreneur and onetime crypto king.