Special Program Root Tag

PwC's Dennis Nally on how men can empower women in financial services; Fidelity's Kathy Murphy on drawing female customers to financial planning; Well Fargo's Maureen O'Donnell on welcoming female advisers aboard; and are the regulatory agencies welcoming to women?

MasterCard is integrating software developer Cardtek’s HCEXpert solution to enable Near Field Communication-based mobile payments for customers of MasterCard Payment Transaction Services, a unit of MasterCard.

Western Union has named Elizabeth Chambers as the company’s chief strategy and product officer.

The glacial pace at which card providers and merchants are adding EMV chips to their cards and payments systems benefits no one, and opens new possibilities for card fraud.

Square Inc., the payments startup led by Jack Dorsey, released a 38-minute marketing video in advance of its planned initial public offering.

Electronic payments company PAX Technology has become the main supplier of point of sale terminals for Russia's Sberbank.

Electronic payments technology provider Verifone has entered into an agreement to buy Payment as a Service provider InterCard AG.

Meta Financial Group in Sioux Falls, S.D., has promoted Cindy Smith to the newly created position of head of technology and operations.

M&T Bank has expanded its leadership in the metro New York region after completing its acquisition of Hudson City Bancorp.

Square Inc. is aiming for a valuation of as much as $4.2 billion in its initial public offering, well short of the $6 billion the mobile-payments service sought in its latest funding round.

Zions Bancorp. in Salt Lake City has promoted two executives to leadership roles in the bank's technology division.

EnerBank USA in Salt Lake City has chosen Charlie Knadler to succeed Louise Kelly as president and chief executive after her retirement next month.

Point-of-sale payment provider payworks has released a white-label software development kit (SDK) that outside parties can use to develop mobile point of sale services.

KeyCorp’s biggest deal since Beth Mooney became CEO would make it the 13th largest U.S. commercial bank if approved, and a proposal from Virgin Money's Jayne-Anne Gadhia could prompt the U.K. to peg bank exec bonuses to gender diversity. Also: Barclays' Barbara Byrne, KKR's Suzanne Donohoe and JPM's Eileen Serra.

Unlike Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies, which cut off contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) payments when Apple Pay launched in October of 2014, Walgreens never bucked the Apple Pay trend and did not take long to start accepting transactions from Apple's mobile pay service.

Having an inclusive workplace is key to attracting and retaining an important employee segment: female millennials.

Payments technology provider linked2pay has added remote deposit check capture to is Bank Centric Payments platform for resellers and independent sales organizations.

Airbnb is integrating with American Express to enable cardholders to sign up for the short-term rental platform and using its services.

MasterCard has named Craig Vosburg president of North America markets.

Nearly two-thirds of small businesses create a formal plan for growth. But ISOs aren't always privy to the details.