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State regulators have given Ent Credit Union in Colorado Springs the green light to expand to additional counties in-state, the company reported Monday.

Those suffering from a specific disease or just willing to participate in a clinical trial generally do so to advance research, but they also expect to get paid. Yet, delivering funds to trial patients is a chronic pain point with few remedies.

A taxpayer's annual refund is a big prize that fraudsters are eager to steal. Many new risks are being introduced by new technology, but there are cross-industry efforts to combat these new schemes and make sure each refund gets to the proper household.

Technology has led to heightened expectations by consumers, meaning credit unions not only have to be aware of changes in the marketplace, they have to be ready to act upon them.

Citi has expanded its ThankYou Rewards program to allow its reward points to be used directly for purchases at BestBuy.com.

Lending Club, Prosper Marketplace and Funding Circle are locking arms to create a new trade group that will represent the marketplace lending industry in Washington.

Time has run out for “knuckle-busters,” the clunky contraptions merchants needed for decades to accept card transactions, but their legacy—the raised characters embossed on payment cards—is proving difficult to stamp out.

Seeing its opening in the mobile wallet market, Mobeewave's pushing a product that exists somewhere between the models of Square and Venmo, resurrecting a relatively old idea of having people pay each other by using their phones.

Two North Carolina credit unions — Coastal Federal Credit Union and Freedom Credit Union — said their boards have agreed to merge the institutions in a transaction that will result in Coastal FCU as the surviving entity.

San Francisco Municipal Railway Employees Federal Credit Union on Wednesday said it is pursuing a merger with UNIFY Financial Credit Union of Torrance, Calif.