Colin Wilhelm

IBM will assist Citi's Mobile Challenge competition, the two announced Tuesday.

Bluefin Payment Systems, a technology vendor based in Georgia, will provide mobile point-to-point encryption technology to Infinite Peripherals, a point of sale system provider.

Visa Europe will introduce tokenization part of a new mobile payment service it plans to launch in April.

OnDeck Capital, the online lender whose initial public offering raised eyebrows in December, posted a net loss of $4.3 million for the fourth quarter in its first report as a public company.

Taiwan Cooperative Bank has been cleared by the Federal Reserve Board to open a branch in New York.

The chief financial officer of WSFS Financial in Wilmington, Del., is leaving the bank holding company for Seacoast Banking in Stuart, Fla.

Anthony DeChellis, the former head of Credit Suisse's Private Banking Americas division, has been named president of Jerusalem-based crowdfunding startup OurCrowd.

Auction.com, an online real estate marketplace, has named Gordon Smith its general manager of commercial real estate.

Union Bankshares in Richmond, Va., and Entegra Financial in Franklin, N.C., are rebranding their banks.

Social Finance, an alternative lender that has made its name in student loans, has branched out into unsecured personal loans.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has introduced a bill that would impose new regulations on employers that pay workers through payroll cards.

ApplePie Capital, a new marketplace lender that specializes in lending to franchises, has officially opened for business.

United Community Banks in Blairsville, Ga., has solidified Lynn Harton's hold as the eventual successor to Chief Executive Jimmy Tallent.

Citizens & Northern Corporation in Wellsboro, Pa., has named J. Bradley Scovill its new president and chief executive officer.

The online loan marketplace Lending Club has formed a partnership with a nationwide network of community bankers.

Fee income and payment of a Home Loan bank advance helped Eagle Financial Services in Berryville, Va., boost its bottom line last quarter.

CashCall, an online loan servicer, reached a $1 million settlement with California's Department of Business Oversight on Thursday.

Online marketplace lender CommonBond has announced that Nelnet, an education planning and financing company, has agreed to finance at least $150 million of CommonBond's annual loan volume.

An SEC fine of a Pennsylvania bank over an accounting matter from more than five years ago raises questions about how long community banks should be on guard about challenges to their conduct during the financial crisis.

Scammers are posing as lawyers from the New York Attorney General's office investigating consumers for overdue debts, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman warned Wednesday.