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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.

Michael Blume oversaw the controversial effort to crack down on consumer fraud by pressuring banks to cut off certain merchants’ access to the U.S. payment system.

Celebrating new facilities, making donations to life-saving causes, giving youngsters the keys to success and much more.

The CFPB and others believe alternative data could provide more credit to the unbanked. Small banks and credit unions, however, have lingering concerns about breaking from traditional underwriting.

The chatbot at DBS’s digital bank in India handles most customer service questions but can also sense when it is time to hand something off to a real person.

The Fed is preparing to release the results of its annual stress tests in what is likely to be the last iteration of the post-crisis supervisory program before sweeping changes are made.

Following are notable cases where banks were tripped up by the Fed's stress tests either by flunking the numbers (or quantitative) part of the test or raising red flags on a qualitative basis.

If credit unions want to keep the much-touted white hat the movement likes to wear, they may need to learn to live with yet another rule they're not fond of.

The CU regulator stopped short of banning financial incentives in the merger process, but a proposed rule could make it easier for members to know who gets what when the deal closes.

For digital-marketing agency Cooperatize.com, taking bitcoin for payment in 2014 was easy enough. All co-founder Roger Wu had to do was obtain a digital wallet. The number of transactions the New York-based firm has made since? Zero.