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Fiserv is joining the increasingly crowded market for earned wage access in partnership with Instant Financial.

The company’s retail banking and auto-lending businesses in the U.S. generated a larger share of overall profits in the first quarter, and Executive Chairman Ana Botín and other executives unveiled expansion plans for both units.

The bank's blockchain venture with Temasek and DBS, called Partior, creates a wholesale blockchain network.

The Arkansas bank is turning to asset-based lending and loans to venture capital and other investment groups to help fill a void created by a shortage of new, big-ticket commercial real estate deals.

With greater connectivity and more information being shared about customers and transactions, there will be more potential to generate valuable business intelligence, says Citizens' Matt Richardson.

Mike Daniels has been president and CEO of Nicolet's bank since 2015.

The Dallas company will pay nearly $54 million for a 49% stake in a lender that operates in 10 states.

The $56 million acquisition will extend Southern California Bancorp's footprint north of Los Angeles.

Barclays US, which offers a range of cobranded credit cards targeting middle-income consumers, is adding a buy now/pay later option for its merchant partners.

The cryptocurrency exchange plans to roll out a rewards Mastercard this summer, targeting cryptocurrency neophytes.