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For years, business models based around micropayments have been touted as an alternative to advertising, offering a new form of revenue for all kinds of content creators, enabling users to pay for the exact quantity of services they consume. They have even been suggested as a way to create alternative insurance products, for example forms of car insurance where drivers pay per journey.

Coast 2 Coast Financial Credit Union has agreed to join the Florida-based Achieva, which previously acquired two community banks.

Viva Wallet is offering London’s 20,000 black taxis a Mastercard-branded business debit card whose cashback is meant to be offset against card acceptance fees at the acquirer’s in-taxi terminals.

JoomPay Europe S.A. is launching a person-to-person payment app throughout Europe that it says will give consumers an instant money transfer tool similar to what U.S. residents have in Venmo, Square Cash and Zelle.

Many countries are positioning themselves as a destination for fintechs seeking EU-wide licenses as the U.K. leaves the EU. Following Brexit, U.K. electronic money and payments institution licenses across the EU won’t be passportable across the EU.

The league has altered its formula for calculating member dues, a move expected to save credit unions nearly $800,000 next year.

Richard Yeager's promotion comes at a time of growth for the New York-based institution, including having recently been granted a field-of-membership expansion.

Cameron Minges will become president of the Indianapolis-based credit union effective Jan. 1.

The name change, which will take effect Jan. 1, comes following the merger of CP Financial and Washtenaw Federal Credit Union.

Dale Owen began his career at the Bettendorf, Iowa-based institution in 1999 and took over as chief executive in 2013.

Carla Rasetta is stepping down after a decade at the helm of the Massachusetts-based institution.

Italian technology firm Nexi has dedicated about $15 billion over the past two months to shore up its position in the European payment processing market, a local burst of consolidation that exists inside a larger wave of similar mergers globally.

With time running out, industry actors are looking for ways to maintain the integrity of the infrastructure while recognizing a new banking framework following a no-deal Brexit, says GlobalSign's Arvid Vermote.

Members of $5.3 million-asset WJC Federal Credit Union will vote to merge into $3.2 billion-asset Truliant FCU, based in North Carolina.

Kathie Kasper spent 24 years at the Livermore, Calif.-based institution, having started as a teller in 1976 and ultimately rising to the level of chief executive.

Real-time payments carry a trove of valuable data for supply chains, and a way for card networks to grow beyond card-dependent revenue. The collaboration between Payments Canada and Mastercard’s Vocalink will go a long way toward both ends.

In a bid to fuel online sales, Barclaycard is partnering with Amazon in Germany to offer installment lending to overcome the country’s low credit card ownership rates.

Gov. Laura Kelly has nominated Vickie Hurt to succeed Jerel Wright, who will step down Nov. 28.

John Lewis, who is currently general counsel for the New York-based credit union, will take over for CEO William Predmore, who is retiring at the end of the year.

Anchor Bank in Palm Beach Gardens was rescued by Bolivian investors after the financial crisis and began catering to South American clientele. Now it has agreed to buy a Broward County bank, setting the stage for its long-awaited, in-market expansion.