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Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Politics may impact Ant/MoneyGram deal; First Data extends sports branding; Singapore forms payments committee; Ransomware's severe impact on small business.

The bank agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle charges it didn't tell consumers why their checking account applications were rejected; Winklevoss brothers to supply bitcoin data to Chicago exchange.

The online lending platform Kabbage announced Thursday it has raised $250 million from the Japanese telecom giant SoftBank, marking its largest equity fundraising round to date.

Shopping and paying for goods with a smartphone or tablet has been a staple of modern consumerism for years, but mobile wallet adoption is just at its early stages, writes Lisa Stanton, president of InAuth.

Enticements such as rewards, loyalty points and coupons seldom face pushback as a marketing concept, but there's been recent concern that these programs are devouring potential revenue from consumers who would be willing to pay full price.

Not long ago, self-checkout lanes were seen as an encroachment on traditional retail sales, depriving shoppers of the personal touch that comes with interacting with a cashier. Today, this model is under attack from mobile devices, which are both more high-tech and more personal.

Republican members of Congress are pressing the regulator for details on the high attorney's fees it has incurred in its quest to recover losses from the corporate credit union collapse.

PayPal now enables Skype users to send funds to one another while chatting on Skype’s mobile app, but the connection came too late for investors who hoped to see this happen when PayPal and Skype lived under the same roof as subsidiaries of eBay.

The auto-lending vendor’s growth comes as car loans continue to be a major growth area for credit unions, according to recent data.

So-called transitional lending has traditionally been kept on balance sheet; but it’s become attractive to bundle the loans for transactions called (take a deep breath) commercial real estate collateralized loan obligations. Can investors stomach the features these deals sported before the crisis?