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Kabbage co-founder Kathryn Petralia, whose company is being sold to American Express, discusses government and financial-sector lifelines she says could help businesses that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.

The economist Marc Sumerlin was invited one June morning in 2019 to meet with President Trump, but with a condition: he had to be prepared to accept Trump's nomination to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. He declined.

The startup said its Marqeta Tokenization-as-a-Service enables banks or fintechs to instantly add credit, debit or prepaid cards to a digital wallet by directly managing tokens instead of going through a third party.

Financials led the way with a 2.3% gain as the overall stock market rose more than 1.5% Monday; the new service will help small businesses spot online scams.

It’s about time that we stopped ranking personal data theft on perceived severity. Any breach in which personal data is stolen needs to be treated as highly serious and punishable, says Juniper Networks’ Laurence Pitt.

Social media has spawned thousands of ways for individuals to get paid by touting products in videos, photos and blogs, but the payments flow between companies and these so-called influencers can be rocky.

Many of the women in this year's list are familiar to American Banker readers, including J.P. Morgan's Mary Callahan Erdoes, Fidelity Investmemts' Abigail Johnson and Synchrony Financial's Margaret Keane. Seven honorees are newcomers, including two, Maria Hackley and Ida Liu, from Citigroup.

The West Virginia company has an agreement to buy WinFirst Financial for $21.7 million in cash.

The pending sale of Umpqua Investments should free up funds for the company to invest in other businesses.

JPMorgan Chase told thousands of office workers across its consumer unit they can plan to continue working remotely until next year, breaking with the firm’s Wall Street operations.