Payments is a wild game right now—everyone’s jockeying for the upper crust. Capital One and Discover just merged, which could ...

Credit-card giant Capital One Financial now owns its own network, just as American Express does. What will it do with it?

One of the earliest known instances in the U.S. of a protester brandishing a raised fist occurred in 1913, when “Big Bill” Haywood spoke to strikers during the Paterson silk strike in New Jersey.