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Bank of the West waited until the fall of 2016—many months longer than most banks—to offer its customers any mobile wallet. And when it did finally join the mobile wallet craze, it went all in.

Investar will pay $46 million in cash for Citizens, which has three branches and $246 million in assets.

Joseph Greco previously served as CEO of Southern Connecticut Bancorp, which sold itself to Liberty Bank in 2013.

If the megabanks' Zelle person-to-person payment service takes off, it will serve as much as a blueprint for collaboration as it does for digital payments.

Just as Intuit has to find a way to meld consumer and business technology for accounting in the 1990s, financial institutions have the same challenge, and opportunity, today with small business payments technology.

First Data Corp. and Fleetcor are bringing their various gift card operations together in a joint venture designed to streamline distribution and share digital gift card technology.

Premier Asset Management will add $550 million of assets under management to a platform that First Midwest has historically built with organic growth.

Oro Inc., a rising force in the emerging $7 trillion business-to-business e-commerce market, is teaming with PayPal to streamline transactions as more global suppliers move their sales online.

The agreement comes three months after Astoria and New York Community Bancorp called off plans to merge.

The Most Influential Women in Payments are the ones taking risks with new ideas and investments, and developing the technology that will forever change the way people handle money. Not only do they set an example for their peers, they are unafraid to learn from newcomers and are diligent about encouraging a freshness and diversity of ideas.