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U.S. banks are coming under pressure in pre-market trading as the Mediterranean nation prepares for a fresh election that may become a de facto referendum on its membership in the euro currency union.

A new round of consolidation may be about to begin, starting in Europe; looser corporate underwriting standards and lower rates draw OCC attention.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web Today: IBM Watson expands payments in France; Bug bounty discovers weakness at T-Mobile; Chinese city turns to blockchain for municipal payments; U.K. student builds payment device for street performers.

Caroline Redmann was once flummoxed to hear herself called an "IT nerd," but today she wears it as a badge of honor.

Several U.K. businesses have shifted their stance on credit card acceptance in the wake of a new EU law that became effective Jan. 13 — with some providers putting an end to their credit card acceptance altogether.

Mobile technology can infer a user’s identity and make device-based decisions on the validity of a transaction, writes Kayne McGladrey, an IEEE member and director of information security services for Integral Partners.

The London interbank offered rate will likely be replaced by a new reference rate that critics say is better suited for the derivatives market than it is for commercial lending.

Bankers to British royalty are not so decorous. Aussies play the (gender) blame game, after AMP fiasco. NYSE's Stacey Cunningham could be standing on a cliff. And, what’s with the men of "Arrested Development"?

The New York company on Friday promoted Wahida Plummer, who was previously in charge of regulatory matters, to chief risk officer and expanded the role of its chief credit officer.

Comprehensive analysis of the banking industry's first big legislative victory since the crisis; lawsuits target banks with websites in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act; what a homegrown app for millennials has to teach Wells Fargo; and more from this week's most-read stories.