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Wintrust Financial in Rosemont, Ill., has named Kathleen Boege general counsel.

WeChat, a smartphone instant-messenger, digital wallet and car-booking service rolled up into one, is probably worth $83.6 billion. As people spend more and more time sending short messages to each other, such services have become some of the hottest technology businesses around.

Homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans. The next president could change that with a few simple policies aimed at encouraging private capital to invest in residential mortgages.

Citi Holdings Is No Longer Breaking Bad; SunGard Sale Dissected

Burniske wins statewide award and other credit union people in the news.

PSCU on Wednesday announced a partnership with Member Driven Technologies to provide call center support to MDT's roster of credit union clients.

While the average consumer’s banking and payment account information may not be considered as highly-sensitive as the "non official cover" list from Mission Impossible, multi-layer authentication is still the best way to fend off fraudsters.

Visa's newly established Bangalore-based technology development center is rebuilding Visa's presence in India, bringing fresh ideas to some older projects.

Travis Patron of the research firm Diginomics discusses financial institutions' interest in Bitcoin and blockchain technology as platforms to facilitate payments of fiat currency and trading of real-world assets.

A tip from a whistle-blower led regulators to crack down on Citizens Financial Group for ignoring discrepancies between customer deposit slips and the amount actually placed into the bank — and similar actions against other banks could be on their way.