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After a bogus-accounts scandal spooked new clients and crimped profitability, Wells Fargo may eliminate more branches and dismiss staff.

The consumer banking experience still needs work. But instead of investing money in consumer-facing products, we must invest in critical yet less sexy infrastructure improvements.

A tech JV between Live Oak and First Data aims to do for small-business deposits what the bank previously did for lending.

Appeals court throws out earlier ruling that federal bailout of giant insurer was illegal; Barclays chief likely to face angry shareholders at annual meeting.

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The CUSO has joined with the Center for Financial Services Innovation’s Financial Health Network to help credit unions and other institutions improve their small-dollar lending practices.

The D.C. company is starting with bars in its local area and plans to expand to other big cities in the near future.

As mobile devices get more complex, self-help will become vital to attract m-commerce and payments, writes James Ramey, CEO of DeviceBits.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to launch an inquiry into small-business lending, the first step toward crafting a rule for the collection and reporting of data.

Payments at connected devices are expected to grow quickly in the next decade. Gas stations are a key place to look in the short term.