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Goldman Sachs, Capital One and Wells Fargo have all suffered pitfalls in their merchant partnerships. Payment experts discuss how issuers can keep retailers and consumers onboard.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said charges for cash-back services are contributing to the lack of access to finance in underserved areas.

Lower interest rates could bolster loan demand, credit quality and securities portfolios. But they could also curb lending profitability faster than they ease deposit costs, crimping net interest margins and eating into near-term profits.

The third-largest Canadian bank's proposed minority stake in KeyCorp is an unconventional way to generate more U.S. revenue. Analysts say it's a less risky approach than buying an American bank outright.

Bank of America, Citigroup, HSBC and others are increasingly using sustainable and recycled materials for manufacturing

As with EVs, digital money was a niche product for years before gaining widespread acceptance. Now, digital blockchain-based monies might be on the verge of a major breakthrough.

Banks are boosting their use of new machine learning to improve security risk, but securing international transactions presents a different set of challenges.

The once-worsening trend of consumers struggling to pay their credit card bills keeps stabilizing, new data from card issuers showed this week. The improved picture comes amid other signs that consumers aren't slowing their spending.

The ability to make cash transactions is vital to some Americans, and when technology fails us, it can be a lifeline for all Americans. We need to preserve it.

The overall size of the combined entity is trivial compared to industry behemoths. It is evident the benefits to consumers from the Capital One-Discover merger dramatically exceed the speculated harms that caution against it.