Amilda Dymi

Graduate school financing with high balances are driving the overall growth of the nation's student-loan debt.

Corporate fleet card payments company WEX has renewed its card services partnership with the pest control company Rollins through December 2018.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is offering chip-and-PIN cards to middle-market U.S. clients and their staff who use credit cards globally.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is offering chip-and-PIN cards to middle-market U.S. clients and their staff who use credit cards globally.

Old Second Bancorp (OSBC) in Aurora, Ill., is tempering its expectations for its planned public offering.

The payments processor First Data has appointed former AOL executive Michael Manos as its chief technology officer.

Independence Bancshares, (IEBS) in Greenville, S.C., has filed multiple mobile payment patent technology applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

A Montana court has affirmed a jury verdict that had found Comerica Bank (CMA) responsible for putting one of its commercial clients out of business.

PayPal now offers the chip-and-PIN version of its PayPal Here mobile card reader to merchants in Australia.

Aquesta Bank (AQFH) in Cornelius, N.C., has formed a holding company.

Green Dot Corp. has introduced a new technology for reloading a prepaid card account without using a reload card.

The online money transfer provider Xoom Corp. is working with India's Housing Development Finance Corporation Bank Ltd. to allow customers to receive payments instantly into an HDFC Bank account.

McDonald's customers in Thailand now have the option to make credit card payments to a mobile device as part of the McDelivery 1711 service.

Los Angeles banker Maria Contreras-Sweet has been confirmed as the new head of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The payment processors Global Payments Inc. and Optimal Payments Plc have begun supporting MasterCard's MasterPass digital wallet.

The Overseas Private Investment Corp.'s board of directors has approved a $200 million financing guarantee that will support Wells Fargo's lending to U.S. small and midsize firms that have set up shop abroad.

Circle Internet Financial, a startup aiming to make the digital currency Bitcoin more user-friendly for merchants and consumers, has raised another $17 million, bringing its total funding to $26 million.

Circle Internet Financial, a startup aiming to make the digital currency Bitcoin more user-friendly for merchants and consumers, has raised another $17 million, bringing its total funding to $26 million.

Christopher Whalen, an outspoken analyst of the banking and mortgage industries, has joined the advisory board of Weiss Residential Research, a developer of home price indexes.

First Data Corp. has named Attra Infotech, a global banking and payments services provider, as the first participant in its developer license program for the VisionPlus and AccessPlus products.