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A group of U.K. merchants has joined a lawsuit against Visa and Mastercard seeking damages over interchange fees the card networks levied on credit and debit transactions.

More than half of the company's loans and deposits would be in the Atlanta area after it buys Resurgens Bancorp.

Apple Pay's recent move to waive the £30 contactless transaction limit in the U.K. removes one of the key restraints it faced when competing with credit and debit cards at the checkout. But at this point in the mobile wallet adoption cycle, does this change really matter to consumers and merchants?

The U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator is escalating its inquiry into the role banks play in preventing money-transfer scams where consumers are tricked into sending funds to fraudsters.

Samsung Electronics Co. has made its Android and Apple Pay competitor available in the U.K. Tuesday, as it attempts to play catch-up in one of the major markets for contactless payments.

Kreditech will deliver its artificial intelligence and machine-learning credit underwriting and loan management technology to PayU’s network of 300,000 merchants

Irish fintech execs discuss the sector's growth in their country and the opportunities from Brexit.

Andreas Dombret, the head of banking supervision for the German central bank, talks with American Banker's John Heltman about the need for international cooperation, how blockchain changes regulation, and the difference between the German and U.S. banking systems.

Toreson Lloyd was a vice president of relationship management at WorldPay and a business development manager at American Express before joining London-based APEXX.

Regulators are calling for the boards of the three separate faster-payments initiatives to review and endorse the consolidation plan and complete most of the consolidation before the end of 2017.