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An increase in corporate loans, the highest lending margin in four and a half years and record profit in asset management helped the lender top analysts’ estimates and offset trading and other challenges.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon updates Echo; ZenCash expands to include billing; SecureKey adds a large bank to Canada's national ID project; Cash declines in Sweden.

Using an automated solution to process virtual card payments is the first step in overcoming the challenges of this payment technology, writes Ed Jordan, CFO of Billtrust.

As conditions worsened on Wednesday, bankers said that their employees’ safety is their top priority.

The Tennessee bank said it has bought Professional Mortgage in Greenville, S.C., which services about $1.1 billion of commercial mortgage loans for 23 correspondent life company lenders.

Amy Friend, who helped implement the Dodd-Frank Act while at the OCC, will retire from government service on Nov. 11, the OCC said Wednesday.

Efforts to make it easier for smaller businesses to apply for SBA loans, coupled by concerted expansion efforts among key regional and community banks, contributed to the third consecutive record for 7(a) lending.

The Independent Community Bankers of America is formally opposing a bank charter application by payments processor Square, accusing it of trying to “avoid” certain “legal prohibitions and restrictions.”

Less than a decade after the last major banking crisis, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are offering investors a new way to bet on the next one.

Lazaro de Mello Brandao, who at 91 is the world's oldest serving bank chairman, said he'll step down after more than 25 years in that role at Banco Bradesco SA, triggering a succession race at Brazil's second-largest bank by market value.