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Wells Fargo has numerous mobile banking and card account apps in the works, including Control Tower and Greenhouse, and those will inform its Pay with Wells Fargo project, according to Beverly Anderson, the bank's executive vice president of cards and retail services.

Even among the experts in the payments industry, people still use cash. Banks can't ignore this, according to Paul Amisano, senior vice president for enterprise digital and payments strategy at BB&T.

If a merchant seeking to avoid credit card fees turned to cash discounting, it was at least partly because the other option — putting a surcharge on credit card use — was complicated and illegal in many states.

Acorns is about investments, but its debit card is about something else: instilling pride in the act of making a payment

Fiserv will buy the business, once known as Elan ATM and Debit Processing, for $690 million.

Visa, Mountain America Credit Union and Fingerprints AB were thrilled with their biometric card test, but also faced the grim realization that real world infrastructure may not be as accommodating.

Just as Green Dot leveraged partnerships with the likes of Uber and Apple to expand its reach, Netspend also is looking to its retail partners including Kroger, CVS and Kohl’s for new digital payment use cases.

It's a testament to Piepszak's ability to get things done that the bank picked her last year to run one of its most consequential business lines.

Regional banks are in a much better position to offer a more flexible customer-centric proposition and better service to mid-market corporate and small business players than national issuers, according to Henry Pooley, chief commercial officer at Fraedom.

The payments, which total more than $10 million, stem from a 2017 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The agency charged that NetSpend deceived consumers by advertising that they could get immediate access to their funds.