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Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan called for another round of federal stimulus to help the U.S. reach a full economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Implementing real-time documentation and reporting workflows enabled by AI-powered speech recognition cuts time, says Nuance Communications' Ed McGuiggan.

After two years of helping banks connect globally to domestic faster payments rails, Swift is planning to expand on that concept.

The Trump administration has barred the use of TikTok and WeChat inside the U.S., including a direct ban on WeChat Pay, setting up potential retaliation against U.S. companies that could interrupt international payment flows.

The results of the latest exams will be released for each of 33 big banks; the Fed will announce by the end of this month if it will cap fourth quarter dividends and prohibit buybacks.

As more consumers look for alternatives to credit cards, investors are flocking to point of sale credit firms, with Affirm raising a fresh $500 million.

The humble QR code — invented for automobile manufacturing in 1994 — had been on the rise as a payment method for many years, but the pandemic expanded its use in the U.S. in some unforeseen ways.

In countries where the use of cards is less prevalent, other digital payment methods, particularly mobile wallets, are proliferating, changing the payments landscape rapidly and radically, says Standard Chartered's Tarek Elyafi.

The future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Fed’s supervisory regime for the biggest financial institutions, reform of the Community Reinvestment Act and a host of other industry-related issues are on the ballot this November.

The agency has scheduled an extra assessment of institutions' strength to incorporate more recent economic data during the pandemic.