Tanaya Macheel

National Australia Bank will soon introduce several upgrades to its mobile banking app, including a feature that lets customers pay with Visa cards through the NAB app.

Fresh off testing new payments technology at the Rio Olympics, Visa is heading to the Toronto International Film Festival to demonstrate transaction innovations for augmented reality and connected cars.

The U.K.’s redesigned five pound note will be released Tuesday, but research suggests the move by the British central bank is out of tune with the current landscape of consumer payments.

A likely sale of CIT Group's aircraft unit (and a whole lot of other stuff) is keeping Ellen Alemany busy, a former Wall Street banker talks about big data as a financial weapon of mass discrimination targeting women and the poor, and First Busey shows how investing in employees pays off. Also, TIAA's Kathie Andrade, Deloitte's Cathy Engelbert and (to spice things up) Victoria Beckham.

USAA has updated its digital platforms to give customers more control over unexpected declines on large transactions and access to service representatives on its website.

USAA has updated its digital platforms to give customers more control over unexpected declines on large transactions and access to service representatives on its website.

Ideal Payments, a provider of payment solutions based in Baghdad, has launched a mobile payments app in Iraq.

Wells Fargo has worked toward achieving gender diversity internally, now it's courting women-owned businesses. Sallie Krawcheck says if organizations wanted to fix the gender pay gap, they could — easily. Meanwhile in Silicon Valley, the majors are promising to pay their male and female employees equally, and Accenture finds women on boards are twice as likely to have the right technology experience for a company as their male counterparts.

U.K.-based startup called Moneybox has launched a microinvesting app to encourage the millennial generation to invest the change that results from payments.

Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Laura Izurieta as its chief risk officer. She will lead the company's risk management, corporate compliance and regulatory relations functions and serve on the executive management team.