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With interest in these cross-industry deals growing, the CU credited with the first whole-bank acquisition is launching a CUSO to facilitate the process.

North America remains a favorite target for hackers, with incidents at the point of sale rising dramatically in 2016 and payment card data again proving to be the most at risk, according to new research from Trustwave.

In 1981, a Louisiana banker sarcastically offered advice to a money market fund chasing deposits in his market, presaging today’s battles over nonbanks encroaching on banks' turf.

India’s largest digital-payments company, Paytm, is seeking a license to set up a money market fund where users can store cash and earn interest, in competition with the country’s banks, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Hike Messenger has become the latest to join India’s already busy digital-payments segment.

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Bank, former executives said to have used Qatar money to avoid financial crisis bailout; Senator wants the Fed to use its power to oust board members over fake accounts scandal.

Next month, credit bureaus will have to drop information about tax liens and civil judgments from credit scores unless they can independently verify the data. Eva Wolkowitz of the Center for Financial Services Innovation and Sarah Davies of VantageScore discuss.

Mobile ATMs are generally more secure than card-based machines, but still require more security than more traditional digital transactions, writes Sam Shawki, founder and CEO of MagicCube.

When Wikimedia tries to collect payments in Latin America, it's a mixing two unusual activities. It's a San Francisco-based organization that doesn't have a large presence in the region, and even on its home turf Wikimedia generally doesn't collect frequent payments from consumers.