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The Fed wants to make it easier for investors to own big stakes in banks without triggering oversight; Shelley O’Connor has been named head of the firm's two regulated bank entities.

The Decatur, Tenn.-based institution earned just $60,000 last year as its net worth ratio declined.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon partners with French supermarket chain; N26 is adding risk experts; Unisys makes an open banking play; Apple Pay is set to launch in Austria.

Between a decidedly younger user base and potential compliance risks, some financial institutions are wary of using the platform, but a handful say they have embraced it and found success.

By allowing instant issuance to be executed from the most secure infrastructure available, PCI-CP introduces greater flexibility and protection than older standards, according to Ranjeet Khanna, vice president of financial issuance at Entrust Datacard.

So far, 2019 has been characterized by a series of eye-catching strategic deals within the global payments ecosystem, with new players positioning themselves to rival Visa and Mastercard. The card networks giants have responded by pursuing a strategy to become less reliant on transactional fees.

Now that the Cincinnati company recently completed its first bank acquisition in over a decade, CEO Greg Carmichael is pushing ahead on tech hires and expansion outside its Midwestern core.

The British startup OakNorth sees U.S. community and regional banks as good prospects for its lending technology.

The Dallas company finally made the move that had long been expected: Curtis Farmer succeeds Ralph Babb as chief executive. However, Farmer will still report to Babb, who stays on as executive chairman.

In separate letters to President Trump and the head of the FDIC, the Senate Democrat said the merger cannot be approved until all five seats of the agency's board of directors are filled.