Big non-bank providers of mobile payments are faced with a difficult dilemma: to become banks or not; one of them has been thinking about it for fifteen years....
While the current size of the Russian consumer lending market is still relatively small, the growth rate is nevertheless mouthwatering and accelerating....
Chinese credit card use is still low by US standards but growing fast. Between 2002 and 2010, credit purchase volume in China rose by a factor of 156....
Credit unions and community banks have been unaffected by the debit interchange cap. Until they can prove otherwise - with hard data - they should stop whining....