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In venture capitalist Scott Tobin's chats with fintech startups, one name kept coming up: Cross River Bank in Teaneck, N.J.

A community bank in New Jersey has raised millions in funding from Silicon Valley's star fintech venture capitalists.

A small New Jersey bank that is a so-called rent-a-charter partner of more than a dozen marketplace lenders has raised millions of dollars from some household names in the venture capital world.

Samsung sees banking as a long game, and Samsung Pay is its first move. As mobile banking grows, the Korean electronics company believes financial services is ripe with opportunity.

A report on women in the financial services industry illuminates some of the ways gender is still a factor holding them back. One problem is unstated ideas about qualities for success, which have been decided over decades by men. It seems that gender diversity initiatives aren't helping, but a couple of headhunters have some suggestions for how banks can do better and so does Debbie Matz. "Equity" screenwriter Amy Fox talks about what she learned from women on Wall Street, and the film is set to become the basis of a new ABC television series.

Samsung Pay, just over a year old and set to enter its 10th global market by the end of the year, is bringing more features to the U.S. that it first introduced in its home country — a place that is far different from the other markets the company targets.

IBM took the banking world by storm last month when it revealed its planned acquisition of Promontory Financial Group. Now, it has unveiled IBM Pay, a perhaps unexpected and yet unsurprising addition to the technology giant's Watson Commerce unit.

Karhoo, a U.K. price comparison and hailing app for licensed taxis and minicabs, is preparing to launch in the U.S. with the help of Bank of America Merchant Services eCommerce and cybersecurity solutions.

The additions are part of Samsung's strategy to turn Samsung Pay into a broader commerce platform.

The experience Thomas Ko gained at Citigroup and Haley Kim's time at Wells Fargo were vital in building Samsung's mobile pay app.

Coins uses blockchain and mobile technology to encourage financial inclusion in Asian economies.

The card network will test a new business-to-business payment service powered by the tech beyind bitcoin.

Mary Mack is beginning damage control as she overhauls Wells' sales culture; Dorothy Savarese talks diversity of bank sizes as she becomes chairman of the ABA; and Elizabeth Warren implores the president to demote Mary Jo White. Also, industry manbassadors talk work-life balance and the importance of flexibility for women as Visa's CEO resigns to devote more time to family. And a couple of small activist firms are taking on gender bias at the world's largest companies.

Biometric security company Hypr Corp. has closed a $3 million funding round to accelerate the development and adoption of its encryption product.

Businesses may need to rethink their approaches to identity verification for millennial consumers.

U.S. Bank is using geolocation to make sure customers' card transactions are approved when they are traveling. It is just one example of how more companies are asking customers to let them track their phones.

SVB Financial and Mastercard have accepted six startups for the fifth installment of their accelerator, Commerce.Innovated.

As consumers get more comfortable opting into location-based mobile services, U.S. Bank has begun asking them to let it see where they're going so the bank can fine-tune its fraud management.

Geena Davis made a rousing speech on unconscious bias at the annual gala for our "Most Powerful" honorees. Sheila Bair writes about the importance of hiring and promoting women, while Ghela Boskovich warns that doesn't necessarily give women a voice in their organizations. Also, Avid Motjtabai, Jamie Dimon, Julie Stackhouse and a real-life Peggy Olsen.

SVB Financial and Mastercard have accepted six startups for the fifth installment of their accelerator, Commerce.Innovated.