A new service speeds payments by using artificial intelligence to predict which buyers are most likely to pay.

The Alabama company continues to explore buyouts of add-on businesses, part of a strategy that has already helped recoup dollars lost as a result of reforms to its overdraft practices.

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center has created a forum to let technology vendors provide security updates to their bank clients. Whether more steps need to be taken is a matter of debate.

The merger of FVCBankcorp and Blue Ridge Bankshares, which has faced criticism from student borrower advocates, would have created a $5 billion-asset bank. The deal was delayed last year after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency raised concerns.

Christopher Del Moral-Niles, who has been at the Wisconsin bank since 2010, is credited with helping the company raise capital, exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program and improve its ratings profile.

Though the retailer's threat to drop Visa in the U.K. appears to have subsided, companies like Clik2pay, Affirm and Curve have seized on an opportunity to advance account-to-account transactions, buy now/pay later and cryptocurrency.