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The $11.6 billion deal is one of the biggest bank deals since the 2008 crisis; card lender profits at risk as people cut spending and repay balances, which is boosting returns on card-backed bonds.

With time running out, industry actors are looking for ways to maintain the integrity of the infrastructure while recognizing a new banking framework following a no-deal Brexit, says GlobalSign's Arvid Vermote.

Consumer savings are up, yet so are evictions. Banks need to reach out more to those who are struggling financially, and they could use data as a guide.

Replacing the traditional POS model will be a cloud-focused and software-defined model that gives shoppers their choice of checkout and reimagines the store experience, says Zynstra's Brian Buggy.

A procedural move by Mitch McConnell sets up a full Senate vote as early as next week; the class is the smallest in two decades, and white men make up the smallest percentage ever.

Our collective work on the real-time payments front is not for naught. That is because the consumer and business needs are evolving, says Bottomline's Jessica Cheney.

Concerns over cash and checks are permanent and will make contactless mainstream, says Global Market Insights' Vinisha Joshi.

The growing number of defaults is raising concerns that banks will tighten credit, making a bad situation worse; most of the 500 members are academics and Obama White House staffers.

Inflationary and macroeconomic pressures will position bitcoin as a new asset that acts as a recognized store of value against inflation, says FiCAS' Ali Mizani Oskui.

Unlike a traditional supply chain, where value and risk travels up and down a set of organizations in a linear fashion, the extended enterprise is a complex network of relationships, says PXP Financial's Koen Vanpraet.