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Chinese travelers to Germany will soon be able to make their airport purchases will Alipay.

Mobile commerce company Spindle has hired a Fiserv executive to be its interim chief executive.

Wells Fargo has accepted two Singapore-based payments companies for its spring 2016 startup accelerator class.

Fintech Charters; De-Risking Remittances

Bank of America's Cathy Bessant talks about the marriage of banking and technology and former Countrywide executive Rebecca Mairone reflects on being one the few people in the industry to face criminal charges in the wake of the financial crisis. Also, could there be an all-female presidential ticket? Now that Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, some wonder if Elizabeth Warren would consider being her running mate.

CFPB Dodging FOIA; Living Will Deadline Extended

Lending Club Twist; Post-Crisis Blame Game

Western Union has opened U.S.-to-Cuba digital money transfer through its mobile app and website.

Undoing Dodd Frank; Wells Fargo Makes Plans

U.S. card issuers lose $10.9 billion each year to card fraud, according to research released Tuesday by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Junior Banker Focus; Fintech Regulation Vacuum

The engineers on Arjun Sirrah's team are on a first-name basis with customer service staff. Those relationships help Darien Rowayton Bank's student lending arm competes with fintech companies.

Verifone and its beacon technology provider Footmarks are partnering with Allrecipes.com and grocery retailer Marc’s in Ohio to deliver meal recommendations to shoppers.

Mandatory arbitration policies are gaining attention as one of the hurdles to gender parity in the financial services industry. Catherine Flax of BNP Paribas is part of a vanguard of female foreign currency traders on Wall Street, though they still stand out in the "bros' club." Is the CFO role the new 'women's' job? Also, Ally's Carrie Sumlin and Wells Fargo's Secil Watson are recognized as Digital Bankers of the Year.

Novantas has acquired Chicago-based consulting firm Treasury Strategies.

Payments Without Borders; Cyber Hack Attacks

Sexism is less blatant than in the "Boom-Boom Room" era, but women aren't yet treated like equals at the male-dominated Wall Street firms. A community bank CEO takes a contrarian approach to underperforming branches, staffing up instead of closing them down, and Bank of the West embeds star employees at nonprofits as leadership training. Also, FinCEN's Jennifer Shasky Calvery in her final congressional hearing, a swipe at Brexit sexism, and is the fact that uniforms are going out of fashion a good thing for gender equality?

Citi Fined $425M; Rare Financial Crime Charges

Valley National Bank in Wayne, N.J., has appointed former PNC executive Robert Bardusch to be its chief information officer.

FleetCor has partnered with IBM Cloud services to help manage increasing customer demand and data as it grows its business into new markets.