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Pretty much every merger of insurers and banks since the Citi-Travelers deal has come undone, but today's conditions support new-style marriages that make sense for shareholders and customers.

Big Cutbacks at Avant; CFPB Goes Undercover

Over the last few weeks, the expansion of digital person-to-person payment platforms and the resulting growth in consumer adoption has garnered a lot of attention.

Rather than as an application that solves immediate business needs, blockchain's success is more plausible as a protocol layer on which applications are built.

Citi, JPM Tap New Tech Execs; First Republic Goes for the Gold

Finding the right mPOS solution can be difficult. Demanding flexibility and device agnostic technology from partners can go a long way toward making a successful decision.

Possible bad outcomes from the slowdown in bank chartering include less financial access in rural areas and further concentration of industry assets in just a few large banks.

ValueAct Buys Stake in Morgan Stanley; AIG Selling Unit

Smart contracts, which automate parts of payment agreements, are the key to using blockchain technology in complex financial transactions. However, there are still open questions and concerns about how smart contracts operate in the real world and whether they can be trusted.

Bitcoin skeptics continue to misunderstand a technology that could forever change the way financial services operate. Here are four common — and incorrect — beliefs on why bitcoin will fail.