Tanaya Macheel

How Key Private Bank's CEO is looking to transform the business (hint: it has a lot to do with women); algorithms in hiring promise a new way to bring diversity to Wall Street; the CFPB has some work to do in improving its treatment of women and minorities. Plus, Blythe Masters talks blockchain and Merrill Lynch's Racquel Oden talks confidence.

Circle Internet Financial, the Bitcoin services company and wallet provider, has raised $60 million in financing from Chinese investors as it continues expanding its operations in China.

Ripple's distributed ledger technology has been attracting users interested in an alternative method to execute international payments, and this week it added seven new banks to its network.

U.K. youth payments startup Loot hopes to widen its user base following a new $2.2 million funding round.

Santander InnoVentures has invested in a fintech startup that uses consumers' digital footprint data, including social media, to confirm identity.

PNC Bank will make instant card issuance available in 85% of its branches by the end of this year, advancing what's becoming a staple of EMV-era card strategy.

U.S. Bank in Minneapolis has hired retail veteran Beau Gray to head its omnichannel experience team.

Malaysian remittance company Metro Money Exchange has selected Dragonfly Fintech, a Singapore-based blockchain technology provider, to power its remittance business.

Four state-run banks in Thailand and 15 corporations will soon begin registering for PromptPay, formerly known as the AnyID scheme, a national payments platform that will allow users to send money with only their national ID or mobile phone number.

As sexy as decentralized systems and automation are these days, human involvement is still necessary in many areas.

Finland’s Bank of Aland is partnering with Gemalto to give customers bio-friendly payment cards that calculate their carbon footprints.

The fintech lab backed by JPMorgan Chase and the Center for Financial Services Innovation has revealed nine winners of a recent startup competition focused on helping consumers plan for financial shocks.

Payments company Ingenico and POS manufacturer Bleep are collaborating on payments services for pop-up stores this summer at the 2016 European Football Championship in France.

Study of financial services offers grim outlook for gender parity, as Patti Husic and Katia Bouazza talk about where change really begins; Maria Vullo vows to forge her own identity as New York's banking watchdog (sans boots); and male CEOs talk about how they maintain work-life balance. Plus, the significance of women wearing pants ( … if not boots).

Community banks and credit unions have banded together to use their combined bargaining power to wrest better terms from what they regard as an oligopoly of core processing vendors.

Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ has confirmed it is developing a digital currency backed by a blockchain, the same kind of technology that underpins bitcoin.

Samsung Pay has launched in Australia with support from American Express and Citigroup, though it said it is expanding its "partnership ecosystem."

Dickson Chu transitioned to the board after two years as the company's chief product officer, it said in a June 14 news release. In his new role he will continue serving as an advisor to the company's leadership regularly and formally.

Never mind gender parity – just having executive committees consisting 30% of women is still a long way off for the financial services industry, according to a new study.

TSYS Managed Services is now a wholly owned unit of Total System Services.