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Mastercard has become the latest major card network to suffer a high profile crash. With its Thursday incident coming hard on the heels of Visa’s crash last month many experts wonder if blockchain technology could prevent future card network outages.

The Pittsburgh regional detailed plans to enter a number of new markets with its digital bank and carefully chosen branch openings.

The industry is slated for another busy week, with more bank results on the horizon, plus a nomination hearing for Trump’s pick to head the CFPB.

The department of Transport for the West Midlands is looking at how to provide a smart ticketing system to ensure that contactless card users get the best rate on a journey.

People's United in Connecticut pored over all the customer data it could find to persuade customers to give the midsize bank — instead of advisory firms and investment houses — a shot at managing their money.

LAFCU will now serve more than 63,000 members with $670 million in assets.

When current CEO Jerry Ragan retires next month, Brian Albrecht will take over at the helm, having started with the credit union 10 years ago as a member service representative.

Attempts to legislate or regulate innovative payments treat consumers, who have affirmatively selected to use prepaid accounts or some other emerging access device to access their money, much differently than consumers who have decided to open a traditional bank account with an associated debit card, writes Brian Tate, president and CEO of the NBPCA.

The Prime Day event is also a chance for Amazon to showcase a new range of devices and payment options — and to sell those devices at a discount to get them into more people's homes.

Strong demand for business and multifamily loans, combined with double-digit growth in wealth management revenues, more than offset rising expenses.