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All states report positive loan growth in regulator's latest Quarterly U.S. Map Review, though membership in more than 20 states is on the decline.

The Utah company has similar arrangements with Staples, GoDaddy and LegalZoom.

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Customers were previously required to provide access to their accounting software, but now they can connect a business bank account instead.

Dan O'Malley, who until very recently ran the fintech incubator at Eastern Bank (and before that was at Capital One), now has a startup called Numerated Growth Technologies and software that he says can process loans in five minutes.

So far, the use cases for digital payments from connected cars seem too specific to spark a widespread shift in consumer habits. But connected cars may yet prove to be drivers of change.

Currency fluctuations and government policies in countries such as Venezuela are boosting the virtual currency market and putting traditional players on notice, writes Sergey Ponomarev, CEO of SONM.

Due in part to the U.S.'s lackluster adoption of contactless cards, mobile wallets had a slow and difficult time gaining hold among consumers and merchants that were unfamiliar with the tap-and-pay process or didn't have the right technology. The opposite problem plagues Canada, where contactless cards are so widely used that mobile adds little value.

The world needs faster and cheaper international payments, but more than that it needs censorship-resistant ways to transact.

The Treasury Department published its first report on regulatory reform, offering some familiar industry asks alongside some surprising positions.