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Biometric payment cards, contactless smart-rings and a virtual marketplace created by Meta are among the latest developments in payments technology.

The ruling means that a lower court's pro-consumer decision cannot be used as a precedent in other litigation. Consumer advocates had hoped the case would make it more difficult for debt buyers in North Carolina to file a large volume of lawsuits, which often lead to default judgments against borrowers.

The company is seeing growth in use of its ExtraCash short-term loans, which are an alternative to overdrafts.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called October's positive inflation report in the U.S. "a good reading," but cautioned against relying too much on one data point.

The crisis sparked by the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire ensnared BlockFi, a troubled digital-asset lender once worth $3 billion but which has now limited activity on its platform.

Spencer Savings in New Jersey is taking investor Larry Seidman to court, alleging he's conspiring with other customers to convert the bank to stock ownership. Seidman says it's a farce: "I'm in a conspiracy with people I don't know."

A new debit card for military veterans, Google expands a billing test and more in banking news this week.

Jeff von Gillern, who heads tech and ops at U.S. Bank, will retire in a year. Global CIO Dilip Venkatachari will join the executive committee and Souheil Badran has been hired to run operations.

Wall Street is walking into a new era of risk that has bankers, lawyers and climate campaigners reaching for a different playbook.

Sam Bankman-Fried's digital-asset empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, capping a rapid downfall for the 30-year-old entrepreneur and onetime crypto king.

Companies like Blockchain.com are teaming up with traditional financial firms to meet a demand that has endured despite the crash in many digital currencies' valuations.

Some of the biggest lenders to U.S. offices are weighing sales of loans on the properties as regulators heighten scrutiny on commercial real estate debt portfolios. 

Bank regulators are considering a measure that would rewrite the rules implementing the Community Reinvestment Act. They should consider taking their existing rules seriously.

A federal judge in Texas struck down the Biden administration's plan, calling it "one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United States."

House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters joined her Republican counterpart on the panel saying FTX's unwinding hastens the need for legislation that outlines crypto regulation.

A ballot initiative that places additional restrictions on debt collectors and decreases the interest rates that can be charged on medical debt passed Tuesday by an overwhelming margin. Consumer advocates say it will ease the burden on households dealing with hardship, but industry groups contend that it will make credit more expensive.

Savanna-Thomson State Bank in Illinois has agreed to buy Fidelity Bank in Iowa and says it expects to complete the acquisition early next year.

Wall Street banks that lent $13 billion to help fund Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter have been quietly sounding out hedge funds and other asset managers for their interest in a chunk of the buyout debt at deeply discounted prices.

The National Credit Union Administration has granted a federal charter and share insurance coverage to New York Episcopal Federal Credit Union in the Bronx, New York. It is the third federal charter granted this year.

Banks are starting to use the technology, which protects cloud-based data while it's being used by an application.