Fintech

By offering its authentication technology to other issuers, the credit card lender can compete with payment networks and mobile wallets. But it will have to persuade other banks to get on board.

The company, which helped consumers strategize their credit card payments and pivoted to a B2B model earlier this year, has sold its intellectual property two months after it folded.

Around the world, low-income communities are routinely cut off from modern payment infrastructures, causing serious economic harm. We must work toward a future in which they are included.

Honolulu-based Territorial Bancorp is delaying the approval vote by about four weeks in order to continue discussions with its shareholders. A group that includes a former Bank of Hawaii CEO is trying to scuttle the $78 million deal with Los Angeles-based Hope Bancorp.

The state's ill-conceived law banning interchange fees on sales tax and gratuities will be burdensome and expensive to implement and could portend a patchwork of state-level copycat legislation that would balkanize the payments system.

Marc Rowan said he doesn't see a reason for the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates to stimulate the U.S. economy.

The Miami-area bank long ago exited New York and has plans to leave Texas, as CEO Jerry Plush expands its footprint in the Sunshine State. The shift comes as the bank, which competes in Florida with many out-of-state banks, is set to cross $10 billion of assets.

The workforce management platform and payment company launched a card to pay corporate expenses, an option that the country's large banks have mostly avoided.

A Democratic-backed bill that represents the most sweeping response yet to the problem of gambling addiction would ban the use of credit cards in sports gambling.

Canada and Australia de-emphasize government-backed digital currency projects while Morgan Stanley and BTIG criticize Global Payments' strategy as the processor's stock slides.