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American Express Co. is looking to weed out customers who jump from credit card to credit card just for the sign-on bonus.

The cross-border payments startup will use proceeds from its Series D round to fuel growth.

Instant card issuance is an older technology, but it's tailor made for the digital and mobile world, where instant gratification is key.

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.