Merchant

U.S. home sellers in March sold their homes for $30,500 more than the purchase price, a 17% average gain in price and the highest average gain for home sellers since December 2007, according to RealtyTrac’s Q1 U.S. Home Sales report.

The commerce game is increasingly being played on a mobile field and so consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies must invest in a mobile strategy and specifically a mobile payment strategy soon, before they miss the boat.

Ingenico Group is confident it can translate consumers' love for big-screen entertainment into a payments technology blockbuster.

In its quest to supply small businesses with services that go beyond payments, First Data Corp.'s Clover subsidiary is extending e-commerce website support to its merchant clients beginning next month.

Debt buyer PRA Group (Nasdaq:PRAA), a global firm that acquires and collects nonperforming loans, has named Chris Burroughs as its new chief technology officer.

There are far more payday lending stores than McDonald's restaurants in almost every state in the nation. But unlike McDonald's burgers, payday lending is rarely affordable and generally not digestible.

Attempts by online lenders to debit payments from consumers' checking accounts add a steep, hidden cost to online payday loans, according to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report released Wednesday.

On any given day, there are countless articles circulating about the issues associated with EMV and how it will soon be replaced by the next big thing. However, EMV is here to stay, and, despite some who claim otherwise, that’s a good thing.

J Sainsbury Plc, the British grocer caught up in a cost-cutting war with its supermarket rivals, sought to prevent secrets of how it sets its prices from being revealed to competitors as part of an industry-wide lawsuit over credit-card fees.

Ingenico Group has begun offering tools to address some of the complex challenges in developing EMV-enabled mobile point of sale applications.