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Online sales and software development are two of the most dynamic categories in the payments processing market, and First Data's acquisition of BluePay will give it inroads into both.

Equifax continues work to add new security features and restore full access to The Work Number following a report highlighting potential security vulnerabilities in a browser-based portal of its employment verification service.

Flush with capital and facing stiff competition for customers, many regional banks appear to be mulling acquisitions to accelerate growth.

Some credit unions are beginning to offer payment services via wearable technologies, but many say it will take further declines in the pricing of those items before they are widely accepted by consumers or financial institutions.

Some housing groups are warming to an idea that they say could help more Americans benefit from housing-related subsidies than the mortgage interest deduction.

Facebook Messenger now supports person-to-person payments and customer service for PayPal, expanding the funding choices for repaying friends and family and the channels available to PayPal users sending P-to-P payments.

The store-branded credit card issuer reported that more borrowers fell behind on their payments in the third quarter. Still, net earnings were stronger than expected.

The Providence, R.I., company surpassed its goal for return on tangible common equity that it had set for itself after its initial public offering.

SunTrust’s yields have improved as it has increased its credit-card and student lending and made more online personal loans through its LightStream subsidiary.

The move creates more room for developers to work on new payment types and build additional use cases.

Payments company reports double-digit increases in both profit and revenue; card company faces intense competition.

To become a major payments option, the technology has to improve its voice accuracy and handling of voice in different environments.

Dramatic changes in the way banking services are delivered combined with slow economic growth has resulted in too many banks chasing too little business, said BB&T's CEO.

PayPal's latest move has been expanding its Venmo service beyond peer-to-peer payments to a method for paying merchants directly.

The regulator is moving forward with a plan aimed at making it easier for credit unions to challenge supervisory decisions.

With online retailers beginning to challenge the dominance of brick-and-mortar grocery stores, CRE loans to strip mails anchored by them look riskier.

The heat will now be on card networks to reassure consumers of card security through other methods, during the ongoing barrage of data breaches that could undermine consumers’ confidence in cards.

Federal regulators’ 2013 guidance on leveraged lending should have been treated as a rule under the Congressional Review Act – and is now eligible for Congress to repeal, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday.

The Federal Reserve Board governor sketched out a future in which U.S. banks remain at the center of commercial transactions.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika pushed back against concerns that his agency's proposed fintech charter will unduly benefit nonfinancial firms.