Merchant

Malaysian remittance company Metro Money Exchange has selected Dragonfly Fintech, a Singapore-based blockchain technology provider, to power its remittance business.

South African mobile payments provider iKhokha, which launched its Edge mobile card reader two years ago, this month introduced merchant cash advance services for retailers using its app for smartphones and tablets.

The U.S. Department of Education has proposed regulations to strengthen a rule against predatory practices by post-secondary institutions.

The term real-time payments is a slight misnomer. It focuses the industry and the market on the outcome instead of the input.

Tablet-based point-of-sale provider Appetize has landed the contract to provide terminals at the new U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis, where games for the NFL Minnesota Vikings, and other special events will take place.

Lawsuit filings for all key statutes impacting debt collectors dropped in May, according to the latest numbers pulled from U.S. district courts.

The American payments industry is slowly, painstakingly inching its way toward faster payments. Not real-time payments, necessarily, mind you – but faster payments.

The head of an allegedly unlawful debt collection operation is banned from that business under a court order obtained by the Federal Trade Commission.

Visa Inc. appealed to the public as it responds to Walmart Stores Inc.’s decision to stop accepting the network’s cards in Canada, accusing the retailer of “unfairly dragging” millions of shoppers into private negotiations over card fees.

Ally Financial has introduced its first credit card, as the online bank continues to add products to complement its staple car loans and online bank.