Fintech

Visa's ATM biometric trial in South Africa has the potential to spread a security technology that has encountered resistance in other parts of the world, including the U.S.

Credit unions flocked to the nation’s capital for the trade association’s annual pilgrimage to Washington, where executives have the chance to hear from politicians at the conference and then head to lawmakers’ offices to lobby on credit union issues.

Alliance Data Systems has agreed to work with Toyota on a new line of private-label credit cards and to manage the Japanese automaker's existing co-branded card program.

Apple Pay, Google Wallet and other platforms have the potential to change consumers' payments habits. If retail payment networks want to keep their brands visible, they might need to consider giving these platforms a slice of the interchange pie.

Align Credit Union and First Choice Credit Union have merged, in a combination of two institutions in northeastern Massachusetts.

Mobile wallet providers are trying lots of strategies to widen the audience for mobile payments, including increasing transaction size and, in suretap's case, adding support for prepaid cards to attract younger consumers.

Centurion FCU is set to merge with Crane FCU here, doing business as Centurion, A Branch of Crane Credit Union.

The rest of the credit card industry continues to be dogged by slow loan growth, but retail-branded cards are bouncing back, thanks largely to a big push by merchants.

Consumers CU here is set to absorb Palatine, Ill.-based Premier CU, creating an institution with nearly $870 million in assets spanning from northern Cook County, Ill. to the Wisconsin border in Lake County.

The federal regulator released its quarterly report showing which states are experiencing the fastest and slowest growth in a number of key areas from loans to deposits and more.