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Australia plans to put Apple Pay and Google Pay under the same rules that apply to credit cards, NatWest is inviting customers into its branches for a tabletop game about the perils of financial scams and more.

Two years after acquiring the installment lender Afterpay, Block, which also owns Square, is seeing the payoff of a strategy that focuses on the sale of specialty items.

Small towns, in which community banks are disappearing, have increasingly little to offer nascent businesses in the way of reliable credit.

Goldman Sachs, which has been trying to jettison its struggling credit card business, now has a potential way out of its partnership with Apple.

The platform will allow banks to share the names and account information of suspected scammers almost in real time. The American Bankers Association is set to test the system with a group of 20 pilot banks early next year.

Synchrony Financial bought Pets Best ahead of a pandemic-driven surge in the pet insurance business. Now it's selling the subsidiary for a $750 million after-tax gain.

The 10 largest credit unions in the nation all saw surges in credit card charge-offs in the third quarter, as a growing number of consumers struggle to make ends meet.

The seller, Merchants and Manufacturers Bank in Illinois, has experienced rapid growth and zero lifetime losses in its niche portfolio. First Busey says that business line was a key reason it decided to buy its in-state peer.

The Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision said new definitions around community development activities and the ability for banks to invest outside their immediate assessment areas could be a boon to Native Americans and their communities.

The hike was driven by modest home price gains this year, following a larger conforming loan limit boost in 2022 in reaction to then-double-digit home price growth.