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Chinese banks and insurance companies represent a new and potentially large source of capital that could crowd out U.S. banks as investors in collateralized loan obligations.

Prepaid payroll companies are delivering new functionality and processes that enhance cardholder experience, writes Tal Clark, senior vice president and head of Money Network at First Data.

Though recreational pot is legal in a number of U.S. states, big banks don’t want to work with cannabis sellers. And that is unlikely to change anytime soon.

Much like the consumer retail acquisition market, business payment companies are expanding the appeal of transaction automation by tying it to international growth and value-added merchant services.

President Trump will nominate Randal Quarles as the Federal Reserve's vice chairman of supervision, the top bank regulatory post at the central bank, according to an announcement by the White House late Monday.

Using technology from the blockchain startup Ripple, the U.K.'s central bank completed a successful proof of concept—and reaffirmed its goal of integrating with distributed ledgers.

CIT will provide revolving and term loan commitments of up to $100 million through a partnership with the Northbrook, Ill., insurance company.

The procedures manual follows other steps the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has taken to try to clarify its process for evaluating charter bids.

With the ink barely dry on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final arbitration rule, defenders and critics of the rule were already girding for a congressional fight over its ultimate fate.