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In her first four and a half months, Kathy Kraninger met with lawmakers more than twice as often as her predecessor, but her schedule demonstrates willingness to meet with industry and policy stakeholders from various camps.

MoneyGram International will use Ripple's blockchain to boost foreign exchange settlement for international payments.

Truliant Federal Credit Union claims that the BB&T-SunTrust post-merger brand represents trademark infringement and unfair competition.

Wirecard will supply all digital payment POS services for KaDeWe, a dominant department store operator in Wirecard’s home market of Germany, as part of an expanded relationship.

The National Credit Union Administration's controversial risk-based capital proposal could see further delays or changes as thousands of industry professionals head to CU conferences across the country.

The new regulation mandated by Congress expands eligibility for a simplified reporting form to financial institutions with $5 billion of assets.

The German banking giant is also looking to create a "bad bank" to wind down as much as $56 billion in unwanted assets, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Mastercard is working with its banking partners to introduce True Name cards that will let customers use the name they want on their cards without requiring a legal name change.

HSBC is opening 50 new retail branches in the U.S. and hiring more than 300 staff as part of the British lender's plan to expand services to regions where it has previously been absent.

Spanish bank BBVA and duty-free travel retailer Dufry are partnering to accept mobile payments from China's WeChat Pay at the Madrid airport.

The move figures to generate more low-cost funding for the firm’s consumer lending businesses without sacrificing substantial revenue.

Public-sector development of a speedier settlement service, to operate alongside the one being developed by The Clearing House, is crucial for seeing that institutions of all sizes are able to take advantage of this technology.

Credit unions and the rest of the financial services sector, in the spirit of recent criminal justice reform, should be more open to hiring workers with low-level criminal convictions.

The bank is looking to combine several units that invest in income-producing assets; increased scrutiny has led banks to address the risks of climate change.

The fraud challenge faced by issuers and merchants alike has become increasingly complex over the last few years with the prevalence of e-commerce and cross-border payments. Visa's response to these trends has benefited heavily from the global scale it got by reabsorbing Visa Europe in 2016.

Conference overload and sexual harassment response strategies are top of mind as CUNA and NAFCU prepare to simultaneously host their annual summer meetings.

"Truist" was roundly mocked when it was unveiled as the name of the merging BB&T and SunTrust, but it’s hardly the first bank moniker to elicit a "huh?" from critics.

Dozens of companies, including Google and PayPal, met with OCC officials last year in part to discuss obtaining a new fintech charter, but many ultimately decided not to pursue it, according to sources. Here's why.

Student CU Connect CUSO, which had made high-risk loans to students of the now-bankrupt ITT Technical Institute, agreed to a settlement resulting in an estimated $168 million of loan forgiveness.

Hard sell ahead for BB&T-SunTrust as ‘Truist’ lands with a thud; Citizens looks to poach BB&T-SunTrust talent; what the Senate AML bill means for banks; and more from this week’s most-read stories.