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Interactive Brokers says it will allow customers to bet against the cybercurrency; aides to Alabama senator drafted for key regulatory positions to ease banking rules.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: UnionPay builds a bank network for mobile; Lavazza jumps into AI; Breach data winds up in a huge repository; Mastercard's innovation center for younger users.

The long-running slide in mortgage payments 60 or more days past due will continue next year, and perhaps even longer as borrowers benefit from favorable economic conditions.

As the reigning technology giants demand consumers do everything through voice-controlled smart speakers, they may inadvertently succeed where smartphone-based wallets stalled.

Financial services organizations increasingly need an unwavering commitment to customer experience in order to compete, or the competitor down the street will do it first, writes Chris Millner, a principal of financial technology and a payments consultant at North Highland.

Rather than forming a consortium of peers to investigate blockchain technology, as many banks have done, one of the world's largest asset managers is acting on its own.

The House Financial Services Committee passed 13 bills (and scrapped a vote on one) Wednesday, including one that would stop Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from being released by the government and another hailed as helping the underbanked in rural areas.

Assemble allows Mastercard partners or issuers to provide checking, budgeting and payment features, as well as additional money management.

The Illinois-based CU has given back $10 million to members in the past 10 years.

Educational Systems FCU gains a trio of interns, plus more new hires, promotions and awards.