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The agency would be subject to congressional and White House oversight; American customers will be able to send money to 200 countries.

The state’s banking regulator said that the online consumer lender made over 46,000 small loans to Bay State consumers without a license. The company surrendered its license to the state regulator as part of a 2011 consent order.

The software firm MonetaGo and three Indian factoring exchanges have launched a blockchain that can identify invoices that have already been financed.

The latest salvo by the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — proposing in the agency's semiannual report that all CFPB rules be subject to congressional approval — left many observers stumped if not outraged.

The Atlanta company partners with banks and merchants to offer consumer installment loans. It could seek to raise as $1 billion as early as this summer, according to a published report.

Jimmy Tallent, who will become the Georgia company's executive chairman, will be succeeded by Lynn Harton.

Some fear that the removal of such data from individual credit reports could lead lenders to believe a consumer is a better bet than they really are.

If the National Credit Union Administration appeals a judge's decision against part of its rule, it could help the ABA potentially upend other provisions.

As part of a larger regulatory relief effort, regulators have raised the dollar-amount threshold for commercial real estate transactions that require a formal appraisal.

Washington Federal, which is working through Bank Secrecy Act issues, also allowed Anchor to consider offers from other potential buyers.

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney proposed dramatic curbs to his agency's power in a report Monday, including a recommendation that all CFPB rules must be approved by Congress.

The funding round comes on the heels of what BitPay cited as a record year in 2017 in processing more than $1 billion in bitcoin payments.

On Dec. 31, 2017. Dollars in thousands.

A court agreed with HomeStreet that Blue Lion Capital failed to comply with the company's advance-notice bylaw when it submitted director nominations and shareholder proposals.

Slowly and silently, 10,000 free-to-use ATMs are set to disappear from Britain’s high streets over the next four years — despite recent findings that at least 3 million people across the U.K. rely on cash for almost all of their day-to-day payments.

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Fintech firms likely to take a third of traditional bank revenues by 2025, Citigroup report says; Saks, Lord & Taylor say five million card accounts were accessed.

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