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Facebook and Twitter are ubiquitous, but what are the trends of tomorrow – and how can credit unions get a jump on those trends today?

With an estimated 90 percent of credit unions on Facebook or Twitter, experts offer tips on how credit unions can best manage the two dominant platforms in a constantly evolving social media landscape.

The rapid advancement of social media platforms into the payments and finance markets, as well as millennials' devotion to apps like Venmo, were major factors driving a 47% increase in the U.S. digital person-to-person payments market last year.

So-called performance-share units are pushing aside stock options as the preferred long-term incentive pay for bank executives. Many investors and regulators fear that options can encourage reckless conduct and have other shortcomings, though options still have supporters.

In his new role at the nation's largest bank, Andrew Kresse will manage the business that serves companies with up to $20 million in annual revenue.

Though it's too early to have a concrete plan regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the administration is creating a set of principles that it hopes to release in a few months.

Retail-focused Provident Bank has added an on/off switch that allows customers to suspend their debit cards. A few big banks rolled out similar features last year.

Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of France's Ingenico, has signed an agreement with Air China to accept Discover Card payments in North America, a key market for the Beijing-based airline, with plans to expand to other regions later this year.

Shopify is making Klarna’s instant-financing offering available to merchants using Shopify’s e-commerce platform in nine international markets.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the Deposit Insurance Fund is projected to reach 1.35% of insured deposits next year, well ahead of a 2020 deadline.