Bloomberg US banks seem to be having a Goldilocks moment with their credit card portfolios. Spending is up — partly due to inflation and partly due to the fact consumers are embracing travel and dining out as the pandemic recedes — and that means fees they collect from merchants each time a customer swipes their cards are also up. ...

Bloomberg ING Bank NV subsidiary Payvision is under investigation for violating anti-money laundering regulations. The probe is related to actions dating from the period before ING bought Payvision, the bank said in a statement in response to a report by Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad. ING said it is aware of the Payvision probe but is not itself a subject of ...

Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) appointed a new deputy governor, ahead of a possible reshuffle of economic leadership during the Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress. Xuan Changneng, 55, whose most recent role was deputy head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, was appointed as the PBOC’s sixth deputy governor, according to a statement on the central bank’s website. ...