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Housing blight — concentrated areas of vacant properties — is harming communities across the country and posing a risk to the financial system. But governments seem powerless to turn it around. We're finding out why. A special 10-part series by American Banker.

Ten years ago, it was a banking crisis, but it became a political one. That crisis never ended.

There is no disputing that China is ahead of the rest of the world in mobile payments. What insight does it offer U.S. bankers?