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"There is an added sense of urgency now," says Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America.

In his confirmation hearing, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin said he wanted to work with both parties to find a “bipartisan fix” for the housing finance system.

BBVA Compass has renewed its long-term payment services agreement with TSYS for processing consumer, commercial and small-business credit cards.

Labor Department sues JPM over discriminatory pay practices; Krawcheck: key to closing equality gap is financial equality; Rep. Maloney: administration should make gender pay gap a top priority.

As artificial intelligence makes analytics better, the question of who gets to benefit from the intel will come up more. Fintech startup wallet.ai believes customers should be told of propensities that might be hurting them.

Once a relationship built on deceit, U.S. marijuana businesses and banks have begun opening up to one another to smooth the compliance burden of processing payments for the legal cannabis industry.

Fourth-quarter profits at Wintrust Financial in Rosemont, Ill., climbed 54% to $54.6 million from a year earlier, helped largely by acquisitions and increases in mortgage banking and other fee income.

Mastercard has announced a partnership with billionaire investor George Soros to work on a for-profit humanitarian project called Humanity Ventures that could bring aid to migrants and refugees around the world.

The Western Union Company agreed to pay $586 million and admitted to a lapse in anti-money laundering controls in an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department and other U.S. authorities.

Tipalti is building a presence at the intersection of electronic media and advertising, where a different kind of 'faster payment' movement is taking hold.