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In a move to boost recruitment and retention while keeping up with the corporate Joneses, American Express said it will offer 20 weeks of paid leave to any U.S. employee of either gender who has a child through any means, including adoption and surrogacy. Birth mothers will get an additional six to eight weeks of paid medical leave on top of that.

In a move to boost recruitment and retention while keeping up with the corporate Joneses, American Express Co. said it will offer 20 weeks of paid leave to any U.S. employee of either gender who has a child through any means, including adoption and surrogacy. Birth mothers will get an additional six to eight weeks of paid medical leave on top of that.

The collaboration will help consumers use WorldRemit funds to accounts in six new markets in Africa.

In addition to individual credit unions, the Maine CU League will also be honored.

LevelUp has worked mostly with smaller merchants. It's relationship with the merchant-focused Chase Pay will give it access to a much larger group of retailers.

NCUA data analyzed by NASCUS shows state-chartered CUs now hold nearly 50% of all industry assets and are growing at a faster pace than FCUs, but there is little difference between the two charters when it comes to many key performance metrics.

Large banks will soon launch Zelle, their person-to-person payments app. Will it succeed or will it be another name on a growing list of such platforms that never panned out?

The potential user base is huge. Tencent Holdings has 846 million global monthly active-user WeChat accounts, and more than 300 million have linked bank cards.

San Diego County Credit Union is reporting “positive” financial results for the third quarter of 2016.

The combined credit union will serve approximately 50,000 members with $335 million in assets.