Payments: Page 12


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    Discover to sell student loan portfolio to Carlyle, KKR in $10.8B deal

    The student loan sale is the latest loose end Discover seeks to tie up since Capital One announced its intent to purchase the card company.

    By July 17, 2024
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    FedNow zooms past RTP participation in inaugural year

    The Federal Reserve’s nascent instant payments system has collected hundreds of bank participants across the country in its first year of operations, although a few major banks are holdouts.

    By Lynne Marek • July 17, 2024
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    Fraud and AML in banking

    The past year has been one of reckoning with regard to fraud — from TD’s $3 billion AML penalty to the continuing punitive phase connected to PPP misdeeds, crypto bankruptcies and pig butchering.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Banks should proactively tackle instant payments fraud: BNY

    Use of data-sharing protocols among banks could warn customers before they send money, said Carl Slabicki, a BNY executive.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • July 12, 2024
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    Lawmakers egg on US payments system expansion

    A bipartisan group is nudging the Federal Reserve to explain why it can’t speed up a plan to extend the operational availability of the U.S. payments system.

    By Lynne Marek • July 8, 2024
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    Discover to settle card misclassification class actions for $1.2B

    The card company has warned it could face further financial toll related to the issue, in which it overcharged merchants for years.

    By July 8, 2024
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    Silvergate pays $63M to settle with SEC, Fed, California regulator

    The company and two of its executives settled allegations against them. Silvergate’s former CFO, however, did not, and eyes a civil trial.

    By July 2, 2024
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    Here’s how the FedNow® Service answers the need for fast, safe and reliable instant payments

    A new survey released by the Federal Reserve shows that among all the choices, faster and instant payments are growing in demand.

    July 1, 2024
  • VersaBank’s cross-border acquisition of Minnesota lender gets final nod

    Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions approved the transaction this week, after the Fed and OCC green-lighted the tie-up.

    By June 28, 2024
  • Close up of easy payment by credit card or smartphone application Greenhouse workers selling pottered flowers.
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    Chuck morphs into a new Alloy Labs-backed effort

    Community banks partnered with Alloy Labs and Payrailz a few years ago on a project called Chuck, in a bid to rival Zelle, but that effort has been subsumed by a stealthy successor.

    By Lynne Marek • June 27, 2024
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    Crypto firm Abra settles with 25 states for operating without a license

    Abra agreed to repay customers some $82 million in crypto. CEO Bill Barhydt said all but $2 million, yet to be claimed, has been repaid.

    By June 27, 2024
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    Bank of America zeroes in on innovation with business banking app

    The team behind the bank’s CashPro app aims to stay a step ahead of rivals, in part by working closely with clients on improvements, said Jennifer Sanctis, the app’s product head.

    By June 24, 2024
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    JPMorgan’s chief payments exec hired by Fiserv

    The bank announced Takis Georgakopoulos's departure this month "to pursue an opportunity outside the firm," but it didn't detail, at the time, where he was going.

    By Patrick Cooley • June 21, 2024
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    Citi leans on services business amid turnaround

    At an investor event Tuesday, bank executives said the services business, which helps about 19,000 clients around the world manage and move money, is at the heart of Citi’s strategy.

    By June 18, 2024
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    Gemini to settle with NY AG for $50M

    The $50 million in digital assets will go directly to investors of its defunct Gemini Earn program, who will be made whole, according to the settlement.

    By June 17, 2024
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    Apple unveils new iPhone touch and pay feature

    The P2P ‘Tap to Cash’, which enables iPhone users to transfer money by holding their phones together, was unveiled along with a slate of other features Monday.

    By Patrick Cooley • June 12, 2024
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    Rivals Adyen, Stripe partner with Capital One to combat fraud

    The three companies announced last Wednesday that they are teaming up to launch a free service intended to combat fraud and reduce the amount of transactions that are improperly declined.

    By Patrick Cooley • June 10, 2024
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    Top JPMorgan payments executive exits

    Takis Georgakopoulos, a 17-year veteran at the bank, will be replaced by Umar Farooq and Max Neukirchen, who were promoted to co-head roles.

    By Lynne Marek • June 4, 2024
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    Former FTX exec Ryan Salame sentenced to 7½ years

    He originally faced up to 10 years in prison, following guilty pleas to two counts in September. Prosecutors, however, suggested he serve five to seven years.

    By May 28, 2024
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    Visa preps for US pay-by-bank services

    The card network is focused on “stubborn categories” where large account-to-account payments have taken hold, such as in healthcare, education and rent, a Visa executive said.

    By Lynne Marek • May 28, 2024
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    Paze targets nationwide coverage by year-end shopping season

    The big bank-backed digital wallet is now accepted by about 80,000 “primarily small” merchants, according to James Anderson, managing director at Early Warning Services.

    By James Pothen • May 28, 2024
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    Walmart and Capital One break up

    The retail behemoth and its credit card issuer said in a terse, joint press release Friday that they’re parting ways.

    By Lynne Marek • May 24, 2024
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    Sorry, Cash App. Gen Z still wants bank branches.

    Young consumers are open to using the peer-to-peer payments app as their primary bank, but many say they won’t switch because they value having a physical branch.

    By James Pothen • May 21, 2024
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    Real-time payments revolution: Platform approach ushers in faster transactions

    A platform-based approach helps banks commercialize value-added services and develop a more client centric model.

    May 20, 2024
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    Fed, OCC to hold meeting July 19 on Capital One-Discover deal

    At $35.3 billion, the acquisition is well above the size that typically sees a public hearing by regulators. Agencies are eyeing tougher merger scrutiny, but that idea has received partisan backlash.

    By Lynne Marek • May 15, 2024
  • Booth and sign for Federal Reserve payments services at Nacha conference in May 2024.
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    Fed, TCH joust over interoperability

    When it comes to bridging the FedNow and RTP networks, officials at the Federal Reserve and The Clearing House have slightly different priorities.

    By Lynne Marek • May 7, 2024