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Byline: Penny Crosman The fintech startup Abra's decision to let customers use credit cards to buy cryptocurrency -- a move at odds with recent actions by Bank of America, JPMorgan [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Synchrony Financial is issuing the first-ever U.S. credit cards for Cathay Pacific Airways. The cards, which were launched Tuesday, can be used anywhere that Visa cards are [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack The tab from the phony-accounts fiasco at Wells Fargo continues to grow. Speaking to analysts and investors Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer John Shrewsberry projected that legal costs [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Social Finance CEO Mike Cagney has been talking for years about adding a deposit account to an online product line that already includes student loans, mortgages and [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Discover Financial Services in Riverwoods, Ill., recorded bigger profits in the fourth quarter thanks to balance growth across its consumer lending businesses. But the benefits of Discover's [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Late-payment rates on bank-issued credit cards and auto loans rose during the third quarter of 2016 to their highest levels in more than two years, according to [...]

Byline: Tanaya Macheel Citigroup mobile-app users can now track the status of deliveries of replacement credit cards. Customers with iPhones and Android devices can see when a replacement card has [...]

Byline: Brian Patrick Eha If you can't beat them, become them. Affirm, an alternative lender that launched in 2012 to give consumers an alternative to credit cards for their retail [...]

Byline: Xuanyan Iris Ouyang The number of new credit card accounts jumped 11% to 84.9 million in the second quarter while monthly purchase volumes also increased, according to a report [...]

Byline: Robert Barba Citigroup customers can now dispute credit card charges through its app, one of several mobile enhancements rolled out by the company Wednesday. The new feature, initially available [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Lending Club is pivoting back to the strategy it was pursuing prior to the abrupt ouster of its chief executive officer in May. The San Francisco-based online [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Costs associated with a customer refund reserve in the United Kingdom contributed to a decline in Capital One Financial's third-quarter profit. Net income at the $345 billion-asset [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Credit losses rose substantially at Discover Financial Services during the third quarter, but the Riverwoods, Ill.-based card issuer still managed to report bigger profits. Discover on Tuesday [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Strong loan growth sparked higher third-quarter earnings at Synchrony Financial, the credit-card issuer that was spun off from General Electric. Stamford, Conn.-based Synchrony reported quarterly earnings of [...]

Byline: Tanaya Macheel As consumers get more comfortable letting companies know the location of their mobile phones, U.S. Bank sees this as a good way to fine-tune its fraud management. [...]

Byline: Alan Kline It's the question bank executives should be ready to answer this earnings season. Apart from fielding the usual queries about prospects for loan growth and strategies for [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Third-quarter profit at PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh declined on a yearly basis as a higher tax rate and increased expenses ate into improved revenue in [...]

Byline: George Yacik Breaking News This Morning ... Earnings season opens: Analysts are expecting a 'downbeat' third quarter from U.S. banks, which began reporting earnings results on Friday. The combined [...]

Byline: Ian McKendry WASHINGTON -- Following industry objections to how the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. defines brokered deposits, a House panel heard testimony Tuesday on a series of bills that [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Alliance Data Systems in Plano, Texas, has reached an agreement to provide credit card programs for Williams-Sonoma, the high-end kitchenware retailer. The multiyear deal will cover both [...]

Byline: Penny Crosman Like all financial companies PayPal worries about fraudsters, armed with stolen credentials, logging into a legitimate customer's account and using a credit card linked to it. 'We [...]

Byline: Matthew Goldman For more than a decade, screen scraping has been the traditional method for moving bank transaction data into an app like Mint. But the technique, which involves [...]

Byline: Brayden McCarthy Since 2000, the so-called Schumer box has been to credit cards what nutrition labels are to food. Instead of listing calorie and carbohydrate counts, the summary table [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Back in May thousands of consumers who rely on Walmart-branded prepaid cards were unable to make transactions that should have been approved. Some customers could not activate [...]

Byline: Andy Peters ICBA Bancard has bought an agent bank portfolio from Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati that carries about $98 million in credit card receivables. ICBA Bancard, the payments [...]

Byline: Bonnie McGeer The largest bank by assets in South America wants to make more of a name for itself in the United States. Banco do Brasil aims to grow [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack The unusually strong loan performance in the credit card business lasted longer than many observers expected. But today the industry's prolonged post-crisis era finally appears to be [...]

Byline: Jacob Passy Breaking News This Morning ... Earnings: It's a banner day for 4Q reports from megabanks and regionals: Citigroup, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, PNC and Regions Financial. And [...]

Byline: Bryan Yurcan, Robert Barba Last year the banking industry woke up to the reality that nimbler, more innovative technologies and entrepreneurs were looking to replace it. Now that bankers [...]

Byline: Tanaya Macheel, Bonnie McGeer, Jacob Passy Wait, Why Is She Leaving?: In the pursuit of work-life balance, Eileen Serra is making some radical changes. The chief executive of JPMorgan [...]

Byline: Jess Sharp A recent column by Penny Crosman on whether cards with newer chip technology should be paired with a signature or PIN, for added security, came down squarely [...]

Byline: Tanaya Macheel A few months after introducing its mobile wallet in the U.S., BBVA is attempting to lure adoption through 'instant' cash-back credit card rewards for qualified transactions at [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack A federal appeals court has dealt the retail sector a setback in the ongoing fight over surcharges on credit card purchases. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of [...]

Byline: Mary Wisniewski USAA, a banking innovation leader, is using technology to help members to think and act on a topic many ignore: financial planning. On October 1, the San [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart As the implementation of new anti-fraud measures for debit and credit cards looms, community banks must work with their processors and sharpen their customer service skills to [...]

Byline: Amilda Dymi Swift in Brussels has announced the five finalists of its third annual Innotribe Startup Challenge. The contest is meant to uncover the most promising innovative financial technology [...]

Byline: Darren Waggoner A New Jersey appeals court ruled that debt buyers do not have to provide notice to consumers when debts are purchased and assigned but must prove they [...]

Byline: Kate Berry With the housing market recovering, Wells Fargo (WFC) plans to ramp up the marketing of a credit card that allows customers to use reward points to pay [...]

Byline: Mary Wisniewski JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) announced today it has rolled out a mobile banking app for the Windows Phone platform. The app lets customers track their Chase [...]

Byline: Harry Terris Itâs hard for credit card loans to grow when people stay on top of their bills so carefully. The percentage of outstanding principal balances that Citigroup (NYSE: [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart Alliance Data Systems (ADS) said Wednesday that it has renewed a long-term agreement to provide private-label credit cards for retailer Gardner-White Furniture. Alliance Data, based in Dallas, [...]

Byline: Victoria Finkle American Express Co. is partnering with Office Depot Inc. to offer its prepaid cards at some office supply stores across the country. The Amex card is the [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart Citigroup Inc. has renewed a long-term deal to continue issuing private-label credit cards for Citgo Petroleum Corp., the bank said Thursday. Citigroup has issued payment products for [...]

Byline: Kate Fitzgerald Shifting business-to-business payments from paper invoices to commercial cards streamlines certain processes, but many companies still cling to time-sapping policies of checking transactions manually for mistakes and [...]

Byline: Andrea McKenna Brankin London's O2 arena has begun accepting contactless payments via card or mobile phone in conjunction with card issuer BarclayCard and Visa Europe, the arena's official payment [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Green Consumer use of credit cards online is making a comeback, new research suggests. Assuming new Federal Reserve Board rules regulating debit card interchange stand, total U.S. consumer [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Green Soon, even unbanked consumers can accept payment cards. Intuit Inc. next week plans to launch a prepaid card account that merchants may use to deposit sales made [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart TD Retail Card Services said Tuesday it will issue credit cards on behalf of outdoor power equipment manufacturer Cub Cadet. Under the agreement, TD will direct all [...]

Byline: Andrew Kahr Trying to migrate customers from one product habit to another can be slow, and expensive. If you go about it the wrong way, it can even be [...]

Byline: Maria Aspan Google Wallet and its rivals are coming soon to bank customers' mobile phones - but it turns out the vast majority of those customers couldn't care less. [...]