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EBay Inc. has reached an agreement with Elliott Management Corp. and Starboard Value, appointing two new directors to the board and paving the way to potentially carving off some of its businesses.

The bank gained $45 million in PACE financings, which let homeowners pay back the costs of efficiency projects over time.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Air Canada adds Amex to marketing deal; Facebook's work on crypto makes progress; Standard Bank pursues blockchain; One97 expands API access.

A data-driven approach, regardless of human or machine involvement, is a state that organizations need to move to in order to maximize detection in the present and to ease the transition to a more primarily machine-driven future, writes Oliver Tearle, head of research at The ai Corporation.

With Brexit on the horizon, the U.K.’s new agriculture bill is expected to drastically change the payments landscape for U.K. farmers — most notably through a new payments scheme known as the Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS).

Readers weigh in on Democrats' call for more scrutiny of the BB&T-SunTrust merger, changes to the CFPB's payday lending rule, criticism of Square's ILC application and more.

Community banks and credit unions fear a Senate plan and other legislative ideas will nullify steps taken by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that have made it easier for smaller institutions to compete.

Aspiration, Wealthfront and SoFi have all begun offering high-yield savings accounts during the past few weeks.

The National Credit Union Administration issued a prohibition order against Deborah Peters, who worked at Wilkes-Barre City Employees Federal Credit Union.

The effort comes more than a year after Republicans successfully blocked a CFPB rule that would have banned mandatory arbitration clauses in financial contracts.