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If nothing else, no one could ever accuse U.K. regulators of taking a hands-off approach to the country's payments operations.

The region is responsible for a third of all bank sellers — and more than half of the industry's overall deal volume.

Curve argues that as the number of cards in its app increases, the chances of choosing a wrong card for a payment become greater.

The North Carolina company's purchase of Chattahoochee Bank will add a branch and loan production office to its existing operations in northern Georgia.

The Georgia bank will pay $124 million for Four Oaks Fincorp, buying a bank with a large operation in Raleigh, N.C.

Pinnacle Financial Partners closed in on $20 billion in assets by buying BNC. It now has to integrate the North Carolina bank, while finding ways to boost profit and adapt to increased regulatory burden.

AloStar was formed in 2011 by an investor group that bought the failed Nexity Bank in Birmingham, Ala.

This morning it was announced that Fiserv is to acquire UK mobile payments veteran Monitise for 70 million pounds ($88.72 million). This is quite a bargain considering that at its peak, Monitise was valued at around 2 billion pounds. But beyond the firesale price tag, what exactly does Fiserv get out of this?

Inflation’s hold on the U.K. consumer is tightening and the economy is suffering as a result.

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to go it alone. Lyf Pay is one such case of working to create something greater than the sum of its parts.