Fintech

This year’s payments industry mergers have exposed numerous corporate, geographic, product and talent gaps, yet perhaps few payment types are more challenging and stuck in the past than health care.

The deal with Frandsen Financial is the 12th bank M&A transaction this year involving a seller in Wisconsin.

The wife of a jailed Azeri banker, the target of the U.K.’s first unexplained wealth order, spent almost 16 million pounds ($20.4 million) across Europe, including at Harrods and luxury boutiques, on 10 credit cards issued illegally by her husband’s bank.

Shore Community Bank, which has five branches in Ocean County, will sell for $53 million.

Merchant holdouts are finally warming to the likes of Apple Pay, years after the mobile wallet's launch. Competitive offerings have also flourished from mobile operating systems and phone providers.

Compliance can be complex and expensive, but failure puts merchants at risk, says FIME's Christian Damour.

A customer who sued Chase over credit card interest charges is now asking a judge to order the bank to stop notifying cardholders about its plan to reinstate arbitration.

Nearly 100 institutions now take part in the initiative to bring affordable financial services to Spanish-speaking and immigrant consumers.

The Michigan-based CUSO has acquired a stake in NestReady, giving it exclusive industry rights on the mortgage technology firm's products.

The Orange County-based CU had served a few cities around Los Angeles but state officials have now approved its application to serve all of Los Angeles County.