Merchant

There is anticipation that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could release its debt collections proposal later this week.

Given the risks of improperly securing a multicloud environment, it's crucial to engage with partners who understand networking, says Mounir Hahad, head of threat research for for Juniper Networks.

There are emerging payment innovations and strategies, such as card controls and online payment technology and analysis, that can help banks and other financial institutions connect with small businesses, writes Erik De Kroon, CEO and co-founder of Yordex.

Profitability improved significantly last year for banks with less than $2 billion of assets, but not because of anything they did. Some troubling trends lurk beneath those big gains too.

The National Credit Union Administration and the Small Business Administration have established a program to boost SBA lending by credit unions, which was very light last year. It is sure to irk bankers, who have raised competitive concerns.

The growing sophistication of artificial intelligence is making fraud detection faster and more accurate, which opens up new possibilities for new products and services because of consumer confidence in secure payments, writes Margaret Reid, senior vice president of North America Risk for Visa.

Speculation has been in the air about whether TSYS—one of the last large legacy processors—may be next in a big M&A deal after the pairings of FIS-Worldpay and Fiserv-First Data were announced this year.

The online small-business lender said it tightened its underwriting standards during the first quarter as credit quality worsened.

British bank NatWest will launch a merchant acquiring service to attract small and midsize businesses in the U.K. and other countries.

Apple is addressing consumer demands and pain points head-on, with the overall goal of making consumers’ lives easier, argues Jeff Bender, vice president of digital solutions for Diebold Nixdorf.