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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday it is considering expanding the home loan data it requires from credit unions and other lenders to include Dodd Frank Act mandates of more underwriting and pricing information.
February 7 -
American Express Co. won preliminary court approval of a settlement with U.S. merchants over transaction fees that the retailers say complements a multibillion-dollar accord with Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc.
February 7 -
Bitcoin's earliest adopters used to launch scathing criticism at the U.S. for being the first to regulate digital currency in 2012, but their ire seems to have cooled off.
February 7 -
Payment infrastructure systems provider Pay.On plans to combine its distribution network with that of fraud prevention specialist Kount.
February 6 -
Corporate payment provider Wex is already laying the groundwork for 2015, when it plans to use the ExxonMobil fleet payments program to jump-start its efforts in the large network of European countries that comes with the new product.
February 5 -
MasterCard has named Tim Murphy as its new general counsel and chief franchise officer.
February 5 -
The number of fraud victims is dramatically increasing, indicating that consumers and the payments industry as a whole have to become more vigilant in their security, new research says.
February 5 -
Target Corp. will move toward EMV smartcards and chip-and-PIN technology at least six months sooner than the card networks' October 2015 timeline for the security measure, says John Mulligan, Target's chief financial officer.
February 4 -
Federal legislation is needed to enhance cyber-threat information sharing so that good-faith responsive actions and information sharing will not trigger legal liability.
February 3
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Congress is hearing two sides to the story about the role the card networks' Payment Card Industry data security standard has in fighting fraud.
February 3



