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Less than a week after revealing it will bring Alipay payment options to U.S. terminals, Ant Financial has signed an agreement with Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Marva Smalls has gotten comfortable with being uncomfortable throughout her career, and she advises others to do the same, particularly aspiring leaders.

One of the hottest bank technologies is already repeating mistakes of decades past and showing just how far banks have to go to catch up with the times. Here is one easy way to make this emerging tech more appealing to today's customers.

Business-led mobile payment apps can build deeper relationships with consumers, and right now that beats the third party mobile wallets.

Companies that provide services for brick and mortar merchants face the challenge of adding lots of technology in a short amount of time. This is a tough task from an execution space but a big opportunity to gain returns for investors.

The president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank is best known for her dissenting votes on monetary policy, but that's not the only way she stands out. Her background as a farmer and former bank examiner gives her a unique perspective among Fed officials.

Samsung Pay is steadily spreading across the globe and adding new features, but it's also facing some strong challenges in these markets. Here are a few of the biggest issues Samsung's mobile wallet has faced since launch.

Prepaid cards and new mobile innovation in prepaid can bring speed and improve user experience for many different payment types and other financial services.

A report on women in the financial services industry illuminates some of the ways gender is still a factor holding them back. One problem is unstated ideas about qualities for success, which have been decided over decades by men. It seems that gender diversity initiatives aren't helping, but a couple of headhunters have some suggestions for how banks can do better and so does Debbie Matz. "Equity" screenwriter Amy Fox talks about what she learned from women on Wall Street, and the film is set to become the basis of a new ABC television series.

The last movie about female executives on Wall Street was "Working Girl" in 1983. The end of the movie left the audience feeling euphoric. But in creating the movie "Equity," we set out to explore — as authentically as possible — the experiences women have in this field, and the truths that we encountered in our interviews were not pretty.

IBM took the banking world by storm last month when it revealed its planned acquisition of Promontory Financial Group. Now, it has unveiled IBM Pay, a perhaps unexpected and yet unsurprising addition to the technology giant's Watson Commerce unit.

As EMV's sales draw starts to fade, ISOs are starting to move on to other products.

The technology behind bitcoin has almost endless use cases.

The U.S. migration has passed the one-year mark, but more key dates are on the horizon.

Mary Mack is beginning damage control as she overhauls Wells' sales culture; Dorothy Savarese talks diversity of bank sizes as she becomes chairman of the ABA; and Elizabeth Warren implores the president to demote Mary Jo White. Also, industry manbassadors talk work-life balance and the importance of flexibility for women as Visa's CEO resigns to devote more time to family. And a couple of small activist firms are taking on gender bias at the world's largest companies.

While card issuers took a step in the right direction by replacing the fraud-prone magnetic stripe cards of the past, they made many missteps that complicated and weakened the EMV transition.

Rather than continuing to invest in inclusion initiatives that fail to drive diversity, banks should embrace these three programs instead.

MCA remains a very active area — and has become fiercely competitive.

An industry who's who turned out to celebrate the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance. The event — which drew more than 800 people — featured a keynote from Geena Davis, star of such films as "Thelma & Louise" and "A League of Their Own." Other speakers included Nandita Bakhshi, Karen Peetz and Diane D'Erasmo. Check out photos from the gala.

Many have linked the gender gap in financial services to the difficulties in balancing work pressures with family demands. To help address this, paid family leave should be compulsory in the industry.