Despite the hurdles facing technology giants in offering payments services, they remain keenly interested in the sector and more traditional service providers should stay on alert.

Now is the time to correct the mistakes of interchange price controls that harm consumers and community financial institutions to the benefit of merchants.

Some big banks are venturing further down the risk spectrum after a long period of unusually strong credit performance.

Synchrony Financial enjoyed strong loan growth in the second quarter, but gains in interest income were more than offset by a larger provision for losses.

Profits rose by 9% at Capital One Financial during the second quarter thanks to strong growth in the firm's credit card and commercial banking businesses.

Visa Inc., the world's largest payments network, posted fiscal third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as customer card spending accelerated. The company said it will buy back as much as $5 billion of its shares.

American Express Co., the biggest U.S credit-card issuer by purchases, said second-quarter profit rose 37 percent as customers increased spending and the company booked a $1 billion gain from the sale of its Costco Wholesale Corp. portfolio.

Amalgamated Bank and Banco Popular, financial institutions with niche appeal, are rolling out national online platforms, calling into question what it means to be a community bank today.

Profits rose nearly 3% at Discover Financial Services in the second quarter thanks to solid loan growth and a one-time tax benefit.

Keefe Bruyette & Woods and Nasdaq have launched an index that tracks fintech companies.

Citigroup executives were at pains to explain the benefits and challenges of a new partnership with Costco that has netted the bank millions of new credit card customers but also added to its cost burden in the second quarter.

Lobbyists for the credit union industry are decrying a proposal to limit forced arbitration clauses despite ample evidence that credit unions don’t use such clauses in the first place.

Congress should abandon the idea of repealing a section of the Dodd-Frank Act that has helped make pricing for payment processing more competitive.

Nearly half of U.S. consumers say they have been hit by credit card fraud within the last five years, and those breaches are becoming more commonplace, according to a survey released Tuesday.

The sharp fall in gas prices early this year helped U.S. consumers to stay current on their credit obligations during the first quarter.

The decision by a federal appeals court to toss out a blockbuster settlement between retailers and the card networks could re-expose some banks to legal liability and threaten their already challenged interchange income.

A $5.7 billion settlement by Visa and MasterCard was rejected by an appeals court in New York, potentially renewing years of litigation with U.S. merchants over allegations that credit-card swipe fees were improperly fixed.

The credit card industry's switch to microchips has improved security, but fraudulent online purchases remain a big vulnerability. A new credit card company called Final, which launches Wednesday, is aiming to fix that problem.

The court's decision to return Madden v. Midland Funding to a lower court leaves unresolved a number of important questions for marketplace lenders and other parts of the consumer-finance industry.

Kroger is suing Visa, alleging the network threatened to raise fees and cut off the supermarket chain from accepting its debit cards.