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The 50 companies that made American Banker’s annual list are being recognized for establishing strong workplace cultures, offering robust benefits packages and giving employees the room to do their jobs well.

Companies on the Best Places to Work in Fintech list offer sabbaticals or generous vacation time, which helps attract young talent and lets veteran employees re-energize.

Breaking barriers to education unites the team at Mpower Financing, an international student loan company with employees from more than a dozen countries that is ranked No. 1 on this year's Best Places to Work in Fintech.

Shares in Signature Bank fell by 29% in early May as cryptocurrency prices plunged. But after the bank’s chairman and outside analysts sent reassuring messages to investors, the New York bank has regained much of the ground it lost.

Cathy Beardsley, the CEO of Segpay, and Christiaan Brand, a security expert from Google, discuss how to overcome the hurdles that are still in the way of cryptocurrencies being widely used for payments.

District attorneys in the Golden State are tangling with Credit One Bank over its debt-collection practices. The bank says the prosecutors have overstepped, but Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta argues that the legal action should continue.

A career path in financial services doesn't have to be linear, says Walmart's Julia Unger.

Alex Overstrom will succeed Karen Larrimer, who plans to retire at the end of the year, the Pittsburgh company said.

In a letter Tuesday to CEO Charlie Scharf, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown pointed to recent media reports and said he expected Wells Fargo to develop a plan addressing “weaknesses that have plagued the bank for almost a decade.”

EMV and contactless payment technologies evolved at different paces around the world. Brian Byrne of the standards body EMVCo explains how the organization plans to cut through the clutter with its latest release.

Scott Peters, the first person to serve in this role at the Alabama bank, is tasked with modernizing the institution’s core and improving the quality of customer service.

The payment company has created a data pipeline to upgrade connections to storage clouds. It's a bid to make Stripe more appealing as competition from other fintechs heats up.

Executives at banks north of the border pointed this week to several potential U.S. economic snags, including inflation, the possibility of a housing market correction and soaring energy prices.

The nation’s six largest credit card companies are facing questions from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over their alleged failure to report customer payment data on a regular basis. The agency says that the industry’s practices can hurt consumers’ ability to qualify for cheaper loans.

Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase were among the large banks that last year experienced net losses of high-level bankers in their corporate and commercial units, according to a new report. Bankers are leaving largely for jobs at private equity and debt funds, according to the authors.

Goldman Sachs’ Marcus, Synchrony Financial, American Express and Capital One Financial are among the banks that have recently raised their five-year CD yields. The price competition arrives as the Federal Reserve acts quickly to rein in inflation, spurring expectations that rates will continue to rise.

Seiffert, who succeeded longtime CEO William Wagner, orchestrated the company’s entry into Indiana and the sale of its insurance unit. Northwest reported a record $161.9 million profit in 2021.

Clients of neobanks have more difficulty reaching service representatives than those of direct banks. Several firms are trying to change that.

After lying low for a couple of years, wealthy consumers are poised to unleash nearly a quarter-trillion dollars in a card-spending binge that only a COVID-19 resurgence could derail, according to Visa's chief economist, Wayne Best.