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Mobile commerce provider Bango has added Softbank Corp. customers to its list of Japanese mobile phone carriers whose customers can now make purchases in their Amazon accounts and charge the cost to their phone bill.

Given American Express was reporting a 95% hit to one of its core businesses less than two months ago, announcing access to the world’s largest digital payments market has to be a major sigh of relief — even if there’s still entrenched competitors, an international virus and a cold war to navigate.

First-quarter income for credit unions chartered in the Badger State increased by about 6% from the same period one year earlier.

Members at Malheur Federal Credit Union will vote later this year on whether to join Medford, Ore.-based Rogue.

The Oregon company tapped Tory Nixon to serve as president of its bank.

The credit union will pay an undisclosed amount for Community State Bank of Southwestern Indiana.

The Odon, Ind.-based credit union would gain six branches by acquiring Community State Bank of Southwestern Indiana.

The regulator cited "unsafe and unsound practices" at the Georgia-based institution, which is the first credit union to be conserved this year.

The push for a public option to digitize government payments has gotten stronger, and the discussion has moved on from whether it should happen to how it should happen.

A budget item establishing a new agency to protect consumers from predatory lenders has been put on hold as state officials deal with the coronavirus response and other priorities. But it could be revived in legislative talks later this summer.

Organizers of Coastal Community Bank withdrew their application after the pandemic disrupted efforts to raise capital.

Johnson is exiting the state with the sale of the four locations.

Financial institutions in Oklahoma are collaborating to make mail-in voting easier.

Michele Dean takes the helm from Ralph Spencer, Jr., who will retire later this month.

Stephen Gordon would become chairman and CEO of Genesis Bank, which is looking to raise $53 million in initial capital.

President and CEO Vickie van der Have will retire on July 1, capping a 43-year career in credit unions.

Anita Gail Moody, who was president of Enloe State Bank, admitted to creating phony loan documents — and setting a fire to destroy them — before the bank was shuttered in May 2019.

The Department of Financial Services is going live with DFS FastForward, which aims to help innovators in finance, healthcare and insurance consult directly with regulators on specific compliance issues.

SolarisBank and Visa have provided the technology to enable Vivid Money to launch its mobile banking app in Germany with virtual cards and cash-back rewards.

Coronavirus has made traveling a dicey proposition to begin with, but when U.K. consumers do venture beyond their homes during the pandemic, far fewer plan on using cash for payments.