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Proponents of a plan to get the Postal Service more involved in banking say it would restore profitability. Actually it would lose more money.

The Louisiana company will enter two new markets after it buys the locations.

Proponents of a plan to get the Postal Service more involved in banking say it would restore profitability. Actually it would lose more money.

Community First will pay $40 million in cash for the parent of Affinity Bank.

Barclays has jumped on a huge range of technology that brings payments closer to myriad activities, but as competition looms, the bank is working to better organize its projects.

Competition for deposits is tight, the outlook for loan demand is uncertain, and regulatory relief is slow-moving. Yet community bankers are feeling better about the economy than they have in two years, a Promontory Interfinancial Network survey found.

JCB International has formed a partnership with EVO Payments to enable acceptance of JCB credit cards at across the U.K. and Ireland.

The last stage of moving goods from ships and trains to trucks and warehouses involves a stream of payments that is often clogged with complexity.

Professional Bank and Marquis Bank, both of Coral Gables, have been competing against each other for more than a decade. Now they are merging in hopes of landing larger clients and making better use of technology being developed in Professional's innovation lab.

ZSuite Technologies digitizes a number of services that banks provide to landlords.