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Football season may be over, but the game is just getting started for the payment companies that saw the Super Bowl as their own proving ground.

The world of global payments is evolving rapidly – driven by an increasingly global economy, expanding consumer buying power in Asia and South America, rising adoption of digital payment methods, and increasing concerns over security and transparency.

The speed required by omnichannel commerce extends not only to payments and processing, but increasingly, also to vetting, registering and onboarding new users.

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice on Tuesday released guidelines for the implementation of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, prompting some industry skepticism as well as renewed privacy concerns.

Glen Burnie Bancorp in Maryland has appointed a successor to its outgoing president and chief executive.

Comerica in Dallas retroactively cut its fourth-quarter profit by $14 million after discovering that a single borrower — an Arizona company the bank did not identify — was unlikely to repay its loan.

The chief financial officer at Synovus Financial in Columbus, Ga., plans to retire later this year.

The burgeoning industry has been hoping the Supreme Court would overturn a problematic lower-court ruling, but the unexpected passing of a conservative stalwart makes that outcome less likely.

The $325 million-asset State Bank said in a press release Tuesday that it will pay $29.6 million in cash and stock for the $206 million-asset Country Bank.

Home equity portfolios have shrunk at banks, but credit unions and nonbank lenders like loanDepot helped fuel the surge in home equity lines last year.