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With a heavy focus on the granular details of compliance, bankers and regulators might miss the big picture — not unlike New York City’s approach to fighting crime in the 1990s.

The company will gain more than $500 million in assets after buying Eastman National and Cache Holdings.

Plenty of CUs make mistakes in their strategic planning sessions, but -- even more alarming -- there are a number of credit unions that don't do any strategic planning at all.

Investors blame Washington gridlock, lowered expectations for price drop; Wells Fargo looks to narrow its focus as it jettisons some units.

Experts identify the top 10 mistakes -- and how to avoid them or fix them if you've already made them.

From overconfidence to loss aversion, anchoring and the sunk-cost effect, here are some of the biggest pitfalls for CUs to avoid in strategic planning, according to the Filene Research Institute.

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: UnionPay gains ground; real-time payments in Europe; Amazon's payments exec gets a new role; and more.

Seeing a need for virtual and legacy payments worlds to better connect, Push Payments and partner linked2pay developed a real-time payments system that can function as that connective tissue.

Open APIs can bring speed and flexibility to P-to-P payments, e-commerce and financial services. But there's also identity and performance risks that banks need to address, writes Rahul Singh, president of financial services at HCL Technologies.

The system can run more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day and can automatically keep applications, cloud services and databases hashed.