Merchant

The more things change in small-business lending, the more they stay the same, going back as far as 3,000 years. But in this book excerpt, Karen Mills, former head of the Small Business Administration, predicts momentous changes ahead.

Taking a page from fintech competitors, banks have worked to enrich the small-business app experience.

Readers react to Sen. Warren's plan to weed out Washington corruption, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress, restricting the Federal Reserve's proposed real-time payments system and more.

The case — the card issuer's third in six years — is an example of the legal peril that banks and other companies continue to face over the use of automated phone calls for debt collection and other purposes.

Airlines have become a magnet for online fraud, as criminals refined methods to tap channels with higher payoffs.

Revenue growth, especially at scale, is never an accident, and requires a different approach to payments management, says Chargebee's Krish Subramanian.

Financial institutions are more likely than ever to fall victim to hackings and data breaches. Here's how credit unions should respond when – not if – they are attacked.

Dave & Buster’s will introduce mobile payments technology to its self-service kiosks dispensing game cards at the North American restaurant chain that combines dining with video games and other entertainment.

The grocery giant reportedly has reversed its decision to bar Visa credit cards in its stores, demonstrating the limited effect of merchant bans in battling the payment networks.

Consumers needed payment platforms that could handle internet payments, and startups quickly filled the void, says Chief Outsiders' Mark Coronna.