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Nearly 60% of merchants using ShopKeep's tablet-based mobile point of sale software predict that half of consumers will be using mobile payments as a primary payment form by 2018.

Marsha Williams' appointment at the $141 billion-asset company takes effect immediately. Williams has been on Fifth Third's board since 2008.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) has created a service to help financial institutions comply with requirements governing payments messaging.

USAA has hired Jennifer Sepull, a former Kimberly-Clark executive, as its chief information officer.

Wireless transaction and security company Apriva is pushing EMV mobile point of sale software, extending a partnership with iPayment Inc. to serve small and midsize businesses.

First Midwest Bank in Itasca, Ill., announced Friday that it has hired Jo Ann Boylan, formerly of MB Financial Bank in Chicago, as chief information and operations officer.

Square will be the exclusive point of sale provider for Coachella, a large music festival, covering everything from tickets to concessions.

If merchants in the U.S. took a cue from their counterparts in Australia and began making consumers pay a surcharge for credit card transactions, it would attract more backlash than revenue.

Cutting out every step except one—opening the app—Domino's Pizza has introduced what may be the most streamlined approach yet to ordering and paying for delivery with its Zero-Click Ordering app, which launched this week for iOS and Android.

How an undocumented immigrant rose through the ranks at Goldman Sachs; why one bank embraced a highly unusual strategy (and why you may want to copy it); and what Ally Bank's Diane Morais and Bank of America's Andrea Smith are up to now. Also, a pot (Hollywood) calls out a kettle (Wall Street) for a lack of women in leadership roles, and a high demand for airline pilots could make for more female-friendly skies.

Citi has expanded its ThankYou Rewards program to allow its reward points to be used directly for purchases at BestBuy.com.

Bank of New York Mellon has hired a new chief operating officer for its markets business.

Bancorp of New Jersey in Fort Lee has hired a former state regulator as its new chief executive.

A data encryption method that Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr swears by has received high-level acceptance as part of a new standard.

Bank of America's electronic payments processing arm has created a European unit based in London.

Amazon's new global partner program focuses on working with online platform providers and developers, similar to how mainstream payment technology companies work with independent sales organizations to reach new clients.

Verifone is hoping to beat the payments disruptors at their own game, introducing a mobile point of sale terminal for quick-service businesses, small retail shops and cafés that integrates payments with other consumer services.

When negativity threatens to stall progress, some surprisingly simple “little tricks” can help resolve conflict and get employees more engaged, says Michelle Stacy, who spoke at a recent Pennsylvania Bankers Association conference.

When Starbucks’ new loyalty program rules go into effect this month, it will set the stage for a wave of new payments innovations with intriguing benefits for the coffee giant and its payments processing partner, JPMorgan Chase.

Amazon.com Inc.'s relaunch of its online payments business in 2013 was greeted with skepticism. PayPal Holdings Inc. had a huge head start and credit card companies like Visa Inc. already had products that made buying something on the Web as easy as swiping a card.