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Contractor invoices are sent up a long string of approvals and payment is sent back down that long string before they are ultimately paid, writes Will Mitchell, co-founder and CEO of Contract Simply.

Expanding SBA funding and providing additional Community Reinvestment Act credit could help boost female entrepreneurs.

Financial institutions in the U.S. are not only under tremendous pressure to determine how they’ll become a part of the new Federal Reserve-driven faster payments ecosystem, but also what the shift to immediacy will mean to their current operating model, long-term strategy, and future relevance to consumers and corporates, writes Bruce Lowthers, COO at FIS.

Suggestions that Republicans are working to unwind Dodd-Frank could indicate a vote on a bipartisan regulatory relief bill is near.

Amber Baldet is exiting JPMorgan Chase to start her own venture, and another female executive is taking charge of the blockchain effort. BofA makes major progress on digital mortgages and gets gun-shy after Parkland. Plus, GM’s one-sentence dress code.

Developers will struggle to create apps that can be used seamlessly across institutions unless banks can learn to share programming data in a consistent way.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say the legislative process surrounding regulatory relief for credit unions is akin to a political game of "Battleship."

Regulators should revise existing rules to encourage banks to offer short-term loans to customers who run into financial emergencies.

Since payments are often integrated directly into business tools, it's time for ISOs to take a deeper look at the new landscape and re-evaluate business strategy, according to Angelo Grecco, chief business development officer at CardConnect.

The Treasury Department’s long-awaited report on modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act was heavy on glittering generalities but light on specifics, which explains why the report punted the real job of making needed reforms.