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Sen. Mike Crapo delivers a crushing blow to pot banking efforts; the CFPB draws notice for its lack of fair lending enforcement; Rep. Maxine Waters says she will call on Wells Fargo board to testify next year; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Tokyo-based credit card brand JCB faces a domestic battle to automate Japanese B2B payments that remain mired in old-school cash and paper, while it also tries to grow an international e-commerce network. It's a diverse set of challenges that have led the company to bring on a pair of technology partners.

Industrial Bank CEO Doyle Mitchell has spent countless hours in New York since his bank bought the failed City National in November, meeting with existing customers and plotting his growth plans.

The two agencies have delayed the deadline for the public to respond to a request for information on the rating system used to score banks' overall health.

Renee Ouellette has taken the helm as a permanent successor to UCU's previous CEO, who took a position with a bank earlier this year.

Fiserv has sold a lockbox processing unit to Deluxe, the second such acquisition for Deluxe in as many months.

The San Francisco-based Ripple, which launched in 2012, will use the funding to add personnel to its global organization and enrich its services that power payments using blockchain technology with its XRP platform.

Open banking transactions are not initiated by a consumer but are coming from another financial services company. This could make some fraud detection models in place today obsolete.

Following a merger earlier this fall, McCone County FCU has unveiled its new name.

The company plans to sell more mortgages in the first quarter, which would bring its loan-to-deposit ratio below 100%.