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By focusing on "available near me" functions, retailers can combine digital with the need to boost small businesses, says Qualpay's Penny Townsend.

The company said it would have eventually prevailed against the DOJ’s antitrust suit; the Ohio senator says the panel will focus on climate change and housing issues.

U.S. financial institutions should prepare for potential new regulations around data privacy and protection, digital identity verification and the use of biometrics, says OneSpan's Michael Magrath.

Michael Moeser, senior analyst at PaymentsSource, talks to Matt Oppenheimer, co-founder and CEO of Remitly, about how the remittance market has handled the coronavirus pandemic, and what will happen going forward.

Congress acted first when it freed financial firms from having to disclose the beneficial owners of commercial clients. Now it's time for regulators to further ease anti-money-laundering reporting requirements by freeing them from filing duplicative or unnecessary suspicious activity reports.

Some categories of businesses, such as restaurants, have different needs the program doesn't adequately address, says LendingFront's Jorge Sun.

The giant retailer is looking to expand its menu of financial services products; in the face of competition, the banks are trying to simplify the product to get more people to use it.

The fees banks charge to merchants have skyrocketed because people are making more purchases using their credit cards during the pandemic. Lawmakers can cap these fees before they further eat into retailers' profits.

Careful due diligence is required when picking technology to expedite accounts payable automation, says Kofax's Michelle Trapani.

The biggest banks are likely to repurchase $10 billion of stock, including $3.2 billion by JPMorgan Chase; the moves follow last week’s storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters.