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The enhanced fintech partnership would build merchant scale, and selling U.K. and U.S. portfolios would free up cash.

After shoring up infrastructure following the scuttled TD Bank acquisition, the Memphis, Tennessee-based institution plans to focus more on mobile banking and new product innovation.

The bank, which owns a minority stake in Viva Wallet, can take over the company in June if its valuation falls before a certain level — which has resulted in a legal dispute with Haris Karonis, the fintech's owner. That and more in American Banker's weekly global payments roundup.

Most Influential Women in Payments honorees say the dramatic expansion in technology presents new opportunities and challenges as employers evolve away from traditional business models.

Shift4, whose CEO Jared Isaacman has been nominated by President-elect Trump to head NASA, will pay $750,000 to resolve claims that the fintech didn't report payments to the relatives of its executives.

Honorees from American Banker's Most Influential Women in Payments discuss spotting tangible uses for innovation, rather than buying into hype.

A new EU law that requires interoperability and universal support for instant processing goes into effect this week, providing clarity that the U.S. lacks, while ABN Amro says restrooms generate transaction revenue. That and more news in this week's global payments roundup.

The payment company says machine learning is making progress in fighting card testing, which crooks use to determine how ripe a payment account is for theft.

Fast-growing innovation is sparking bullish sentiment following a boom-and-bust cycle of the past four years.

From embedded finance to artificial intelligence to real-time processing, there are plenty of sources of competition and opportunity in the new year.

Morgan Stanley and ABN Amro tapped fintechs to improve cross-border transactions. That and a U.K. card fee cap highlight this week's roundup of payments news.

Myriad payment innovations are cutting into old-school cash payments, changing how funds are accessed, spent and received for purposes ranging from in-store payments to accessing disaster recovery funds. Will these changes bring new communities into banking, or will it leave them behind?

Ripple, MoneyGram and FV Bank all bolstered their ability to distribute digital assets, with cross-border transactions emerging as a primary use case.

Execs from U.S. Bancorp and Keybank discuss how emerging technology makes it easier to replicate the near invisible checkout that car-sharing riders enjoy.

Norwegian fintech Vipps' consumers can use iPhones to make digital payments following Apple's settlement with regulators. Klarna gets hit with a money-laundering fine and more in our weekly global payments roundup.

The long-time bank and financial services technology executive has a record for cutting costs and supporting rapid automation, skills that could be put to work at the 90-year-old agency.

A collaboration with Booking.com is designed to encourage consumers to use the bank to manage airline tickets and hotels, a lucrative market that's drawing attention across the financial services industry.

The Clearing House increased its transaction limit from $1 million to $10 million; Mastercard settled a card fee lawsuit; and other news from the world of payments.

The bank and payment company are using the technology that underpins digital assets to improve interoperability for international transactions, a major point of friction in trade finance.

The payment company is using its Xoom transfer app to bring PYUSD to a broader market; while Barclays is reportedly in talks with Brookfield Asset Management to sell a portion of its payments business. That and more in our global payments news roundup.