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FIS is working with ATM processing and services provider Payment Alliance International to expand its Cardless Cash program nationally.

A former Wall Street trader contends that "bro talk" is keeping women down, and it often comes from bosses; B of A says there is no "bro's club" at the company; Mary Mack is succeeding a retiring Carrie Tolstedt at Wells Fargo; and Barclays' Barbara Byrne tries a new recruiting tactic. Also, with Theresa May as U.K. prime minister, could we soon see mostly women running the western world?

JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and other big financial institutions are offering paid internships to members of the sandwich generation who left banking to care for children and elderly parents. Here's why the banks are interested.

Google will provide McDonald's customers in San Jose, Calif., this weekend with free burgers as a promotion for its Hands Free payment app at any of 47 participating restaurants.

The hit smartphone game Pokemon Go is not a mobile wallet or a loyalty app, but it is arguably far more successful at driving traffic to retailers' stores than many of the apps designed for that purpose.

Mary Mack will step down as head of Wells Fargo Advisors in order to take on a bigger role in overseeing the company's Community Banking unit. Mack is replacing Carrie Tolstedt, who is retiring after 27 years at the San Francisco-based company.

Amazon's Prime Day event is marketed as a summertime version of the Black Friday shopping holiday, but it also serves as a proving ground for the retailer's most experimental ways of selling its products.

Spanish gasoline retailer Repsol this week augmented its Near Field Communication-based mobile payments services by launching an app enabling motorists to pay for fuel without leaving the car.

What's most intriguing to payments industry insiders is what Walmart left on the table when designing Walmart Pay, and what those decisions could mean for retailers and bank card issuers.

E-commerce seems to have a better memory than brick and mortar stores, quickly scrutinizing shoppers' purchasing and browsing habits to provide recommendations and offers to keep them coming back.

Female CEOs are uncommon, so how rare do you think female CEO-CFO teams are? At publicly traded banks, there are only 13, and that is still way better than a few other industries. InVenture founder Shivani Siroya talks about her past in banking and the future of her fintech startup. An Australian bank is going to test gender blind recruitment practices. Also, rewriting Silicon Valley's history and the Spice Girls' girl power legacy.

Square Inc. spent six weeks in Portland, Ore. — a city with a strong existing base of micro-merchants — to transform it into one of the company's top U.S. markets in total Apple Pay transactions conducted with its card readers.

Seven months after revealing its branded mobile payment app, Walmart is making Walmart Pay available in more than 4,600 of its stores throughout the U.S., with early figures indicating consumers approve of its "connected" app model.

Payments processor Vantiv Inc. and buyout firm Warburg Pincus are among suitors seeking to buy a U.S. payments business owned by Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal, according to people familiar with the matter.

HCSB Financial in Loris, S.C., has recruited its third executive since completing a key recapitalization.

ACI Worldwide has named technology veteran Marco Bravo vice president for its Latin America division.

Merchants are facing consumer lawsuits stemming from the introduction of EMV-chip card security at the point of sale in the U.S., exposing the issues many stores must contend with now that they are held liable for fraud and chargebacks.

Merchants have long sought to change how the card networks charge fees, and are getting a new chance after more than a decade of court squabbles.

Heather Cox says Citi cherry-picks the best of fintech apps for its own services; FemTech leaders ponder what Brexit means for fintech; and SEC chair Mary Jo White takes on board diversity. Plus, Synovus' Liz Dukes Wolverton and Synchrony's Carol Juel.

Grocery chain Aldi, which manages overhead by requiring consumers to bag their own groceries, is a late adopter--but it is starting to add new payment types.