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Any entity questioning Libra runs up against the longstanding legal precedent set by private label gift and GPR, and myriad other prepaid account offerings, says payments consultant and researcher Richard Crone.

Small merchants often have to squeeze a hodgepodge of hardware onto their counters to manage government electronic benefit transfers, a distinct niche Novo Dia Group is working to solve with an investment from Square.

Even with the FDIC actively encouraging groups to start banks, challenges like raising capital and low interest rates make it tough.

The EU wants to protect the euro and ensure Facebook’s digital currency isn’t used for money laundering; the brokerage is partnering with six banks to offer 2% on account balances.

Companies like Stripe provide a needed source of capital, but should expand lending beyond their existing base, says Become's Eden Amirav.

The reforms will result in significant changes to the proprietary trading ban first proposed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and mandated in the Dodd-Frank Act.

The two Democrats waded into a court battle over the president's ability to fire a director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Europe's PSD2 doesn't directly impact Hong Kong, but its monetary decision makers support open banking frameworks, sparking a network of banks to support that effort through the help of HSBC and Swift.

Delinquencies on indirect auto and home equity loans are trending up, while past-due rates on credit cards are declining, according to a recent report by the American Bankers Association.

A thorough process for approving experiments with artificial intelligence, clear philosophical principles and diverse human involvement are some of the ways BofA says it's working to ensure AI does no harm.

Rather than homing in on specific methods to accommodate real-time payment processing, Wells Fargo realized a mix is the best bet to avoid inadvertently leaving parts of its client base in the dark.

The Federal Housing Administration chief has already been serving as the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The banking trade group is asking for an en banc rehearing of its field-of-membership challenge before all 17 judges of the D.C. Court of Appeals.

Investors expect banks to be honest and transparent about employee wages.

Balances for accounts suspected of synthetic fraud inched up about 1% in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to TransUnion.

The German bank is trying to reverse its reputation for “lousy systems;” the Bakkt platform has failed to attract much trading in its first two weeks.

The industry had welcomed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plan allowing debt collectors to use electronic communication, but some worry about the effect of a court decision concerning email correspondence.

The firm’s financial woes are mostly a result of overspending, but they have raised questions about how banks’ commercial real estate portfolios might fare if the coworking sector implodes.

Credit unions now have until Nov. 30 to apply for Community Development Financial Institution certification.

Sunil Chandra's job will be to guide the fintech's international expansion. It says 12 banks are using its small-business lending platform, including three in the United States.