First Financial Bancorp Completes Merger with MSFG
EXCLUSIVE—Cincinnati-based bank First Financial has officially merged with Mainsource Financial Group, a deal that will grow the bank’s asset size...
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IPad Users Are Rare, but Move More Money
While mobile banking has become mainstream, the same cannot be said for banking via tablet: in fact, the amount of...
Boston Startup Nift Raises $16.5M for Business Gift Cards
Boston-based startup Nift has raised $16.5 million in a Series A to fund its platform for “business gift cards,” a...
Google to Expand Tez Outside of India
Google is looking to expand Tez, the mobile payment platform it launched in India last year, to other markets in...
Banks Need to Think of Their Customer Service in Terms of Seconds, Not Minutes, Regions Bank Says
EXCLUSIVE—Consumers are impatient, and growing less and less inclined to fill out the long forms necessary to apply for a...
Barclays Shuts Down Online Banking Services on Easter Weekend
Barclays customers across Europe will not be able to use their mobile banking app this weekend. The major U.K. bank...
Australian NeoBank Judo Capital Will Focus on SME Banking
Melbourne-based challenger bank Judo Capital will be focusing its efforts on small business banking in Australia, according to banking plans...
Messaging App Telegram Raises $1.7B in ICO
The messaging app Telegram has raised more money with its initial coin offering, logging another $850 million, the SEC reported...
HSBC Partners With PayPal for Corporate Payments
Add HSBC to list of major banks that have partnered with payments company PayPal. Today, HSBC announced that as a...
Braintree’s New ‘Extend’ Service Deepens Merchant Partnerships
EXCLUSIVE - Braintree has some work to do. In order for the digital payments system provider to become the comprehensive commerce...
