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South Korea’s government gave the strongest signal yet that it will allow cryptocurrency exchanges to keep operating in the country, a welcome development for traders who had feared an outright ban in one of the world’s biggest markets for digital assets.

Indian online shopping site Paytm Mall is opening a New Delhi store, taking a page out of backer Alibaba’s playbook in exploring ways to use physical retail to boost its online business.

There’s a widely held belief that clamping down on fraud in one area will lead to it popping up somewhere else. There is some truth to this — fraudsters favor the points of least resistance. But there are also major exceptions.

Fannie Mae will request an infusion of taxpayer money for the first time since 2012 because of an unintended but anticipated side effect of the corporate tax cut signed into law in December.

Lenders should be encouraged to hold more credit risk in the mortgage market, rather than having it foisted on Fannie and Freddie.

Pacing is one of the largely unchallenged themes of fintech—new ideas come up every few months that require an almost constant state of new tech deployment. But it doesn't really work that way, says Steve Sarracino, CEO and founder of Activant Capital.

Timothy Sloan says Federal Reserve sanctions won’t affect the bank’s stress test submission; not everyone believes the mobile-payment system is worth $100 billion.:

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CFOs can give their accounts receivable valuable time back during the workweek when switching to an automated B-to-B payments solution, writes Ed Jordan, CFO of Billtrust.

The company agreed to buy Bank of River Oaks for $85 million in cash.