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Women Leaders in Action, a leadership development group within U.S. Bancorp's payment services business, shares photos from Kenya, where the group is helping to support students at two schools.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

Executives clashed over whether to add or kill branches, parried M&A rumors, defended big banks and braced for economic slowdown at the Barclays financial services conference in New York.

The Fed may be considering more quantitative easing or keeping interest rates artificially low. That's not what leaders of small banks want to hear.

While the Republicans hardly mentioned Wall Street reform at their convention, it was practically center stage for the Democrats. Everyone from President Obama to President Clinton remarked on it, while Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Barney Frank discussed it in more detail during their addresses to the entire convention. Here are the highlights:

Wall Street hopes M&T's $3.7 billion deal for Hudson City will spark a rush of mergers and acquisitions. These five banks are prime takeover targets.

Discover is pushing aggressively to be at the heart of many mobile-payments initiatives. It's doing a lot that its rivals are not — but there are a few ways it might lose ground.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

Bank gaffes drew heat this summer, and the fall could be just as haunting for them. Get a recap of how the Big Four spent the last few months and a preview of their upcoming challenges in this American Banker slideshow.

While Ann Romney (and Clint Eastwood) received most of the press from last week's Republican convention in Tampa, American Banker's Kevin Wack hit the convention floor to talk to lawmakers, delegates and others about what a Mitt Romney victory would mean for financial institutions, among other topics.

Square has stolen the spotlight — after convincing Starbucks to switch to Square for processing, the mobile-payments vendor gave other merchants the option to accept cards for a flat $275 monthly fee. How can a rival mobile-pay provider compete?

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

The presidential election is beginning to overshadow most issues. Want proof? Three of the top five stories from last week were directly related to the campaign, including the banking SuperPAC's move to target races and a preview of the political conventions.

Eight of KBW's top 10 banks for 2Q loan growth boosted their results with acquisitions. Learn who the leaders were, how much they expanded lending and who they bought in this American Banker slideshow.

The rumor mill is catching fire as Apple nears its next product launch. Changes to the iPhone, iPad and other systems could affect initiatives at many payments companies.

Payments-industry rivals sometimes put their differences aside to achieve a common goal.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

The banking SuperPAC is eyeing seven candidates — four Republicans and three Democrats — as it decides what two races to support in late September or early October. Following is the short list of who is under consideration.

PayPal's point of sale mobile payment system combines over half a decade of initiatives — and a few notable setbacks along the way.

Megabanks provide useful, all-in-one services to their big business customers, but corporate America has some reservations about them. Here's what bankers and corporate treasurers had to say about their complex relationships and whether big banks are necessary.