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Despite the considerable momentum behind contactless technologies such as NFC, the unloved but effective QR code continues to live on. QR's success keeps outweighing its clunkiness, winning more support from companies that might otherwise prefer newer technology.

American Express is giving its card customers an easy way to transact in cryptocurrency.

Irish League of CUs President Brian McCrory formally succeeded Daniel Burns as chair of the World Council of Credit Unions board.

Social Finance’s application for an industrial loan charter has not only drawn opposition from a coalition of incumbent banks and community activists, it also serves as a microcosm of several perennial debates in financial services policy.

Just as pre-crisis success was illusory, so too might be expectations that banks could ever regain that type of profit growth again.

A series of balance sheet moves and a focus on deposit gathering and business lending led to a $157 million profit in the second quarter.

The Michigan company had fewer gains from loan sales. It also reported an increase in noninterest expenses.

Digital currency investors and miners will be able to hedge the volatile assets under U.S. regulatory oversight for the first time in just a couple of months.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its Indian associate Paytm E-commerce Pvt are in talks to invest about $200 million for a stake of roughly 20 percent in India’s leading online grocer, Bigbasket, according to a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

Policymakers should differentiate between housing finance-related issues of real importance to the greater public interest, and those that concern only special interests.