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Working primarily with community banks, Promontory Local Credit will provide second-lien loans to small firms, potentially increasing their available credit by 50%.

The Atlanta company's profits rose on stronger net interest income and investment banking income as well as a tax maneuver.

Stock plunges more than 50% after CFPB, states sue subprime loan servicer for allegedly abusing customers; regional bank looks to underprice Amex and JPMorgan's upscale credit cards.

Readers sound off an attempt to block prepaid regulations, threats to consumer privacy, FSOC’s political bent, the proper use for SARs, and more.

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A new payment company is addressing what it sees as a gap in young people's knowledge about how their purchases can impact their future financial health.

The U.S. trucking industry has benefited from key improvements in fuel-payments technology, with streamlined mobile apps from the likes of WEX and Comdata steadily replacing clunky, older paper-and-plastic fleet card programs for buying fuel, services and lodging on the road.

Issuers and other organizations accept a nominal level of money laundering. Machine learning and artificial intelligence can improve that.

The Wisconsin regional's profits rose 35% in the first quarter on healthy loan growth, wider margins and an improved efficiency ratio, and it said its "satisfactory" CRA rating had been restored.

Payments volume and cross-border business helped drive the strong performance.