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Apple's plans to display a bright blue bar on iPhone screens when an application is monitoring the user's location may feel like a threat to location-based marketing. More likely, it is an overdue wake-up call for retailers and banks to improve their communication about the benefits of location data.

The move to faster processing has a lot of names, but the most important advancement will be the certainty that the transaction was successfully completed, writes Gene Neyer, head of industry and regulation at Finastra.

Credit union in the Great Lakes State saw continued improvement in the first quarter of 2017 as the state added more than 10,000 jobs and unemployment continued to decline.

International cross-border transaction enabler TransferTo has partnered with the e-commerce platform MallforAfrica enabling nearly 300 million African consumers with mobile money accounts to shop abroad.

At CUNA's America's Credit Union Conference, a look at how credit unions can better capture the hearts and minds of consumers, while also beating back innacurate myths about the movement.

LendUp is seeking to differentiate itself from competitors by making fast loan decisions and designing its customer experience around the mobile phone.

At CUNA’s America’s Credit Union Conference, two experts shared strategies on how CUs can grow – including strategies to better connect with disengaged members.

Chinese tourists visiting Spain will be able to shop at Spanish stores using their Alipay mobile wallets through an agreement between BBVA Group and Ant Financial Services, the Alibaba affiliate that operates Alipay.

Synchrony Financial and Alliance Data Systems are particularly vulnerable to recent shifts in Americans’ shopping habits, according to new research from Moody’s Investors Service.

Another goal of the integration is to encourage more small businesses to convert from paper to electronic payments.