Merchant

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's office last week banned a foreclosure assistance company from offering loan modification and foreclosure assistance services in the state.

Visa Canada insists the Canadian Competition Bureau’s legal challenge to eliminate the company’s consumer-protection policies has no merit and would be harmful to consumers.

Companies providing payment gateways, loyalty programs, and authorization and related services for Visa-branded transactions have improved their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Visa Inc. announced Jan. 27.

For nearly every sales force in nearly every industry, selling based on price can be a losing game; someone is always willing to sell for less.

Various terminal makers have come out with their own devices and services designed to support payment card acceptance using mobile phones. But one independent sales organization has decided to do so on its own, and at least one observer says the company could succeed with the proper marketing.

The PCI Security Standards Council is seeking to broaden the scope of industry participation as it empanels its third set of new advisory board members since the initial board convened in 2007.

For the second consecutive year, North American online merchants improved their fraud-management performance, demonstrating they can counter crooks’ efforts when using appropriate fraud-prevention systems, new research suggests.

For nearly every sales force in nearly every industry, selling based on price can be a losing game; someone is always willing to sell for less.

Between earnings pressures, looming regulatory changes and new technologies flooding the marketplace, today’s market can be a tough place for sales agents.

WEST DOVER, VT.–Their silence on the Federal Reserve Board’s proposal to regulate debit card interchange rates could be counterproductive for independent sales organizations and merchant acquirers, Holli Targan, president of the Electronic Transactions Association, told attendees here at the Northeast Acquirers Association conference.