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Lakeland will expand its operations in three counties in its home state of New Jersey with the $57 million acquisition.

The CFPB nominee wins approval from the Senate Banking Committee by a 13-12 vote; the country is looking to borrow $11 billion after Aramco IPO is delayed.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen suffers a breach; Swift's faster pay makes progress; Apple pushes charitable giving to boost mobile pay; Ripple seeks more e-money licenses.

It’s been a rough year of politically charged headlines and financial woes for Facebook, pressuring the social network to do more with its Messenger app's huge and largely unmonetized user base.

After researchers exposed how hackable mobile point of sale systems are, vendors quickly shored up their defenses — while also blaming some vulnerabilities on payment methods they characterize as outdated.

Due to all the data breaches and privacy mishaps, there is now a strong demand for a better, more secure solution for digital transactions, writes Mick Hagen, CEO of Mainframe.

After the 2008 banking crisis, centralized payment systems and financial services don’t have as much appeal to the younger set as a more transparent decentralized system, argues Csaba Csabai, founder and CEO of Inlock.

Readers react to an argument that credit unions are being unfairly attacked, weigh in on trends in enforcement, reflect on the need for worker diversity programs and more.

A huge chunk of the profit increase in the second quarter was due to a lower tax rate, but rising net interest margins and loan growth signal that institutions continue to derive revenue from their loan book.

Dozens of top U.S. business leaders including JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, Apple's Tim Cook and Pepsico's Indra Nooyi signed a letter expressing "serious concerns" about the Trump administration's immigration policy changes and their potential to undermine economic growth.