Merchant

The tension between the desire of government agencies to gain more access with greater ease, and the public’s evolving perception of data privacy rights, is ongoing and writ large in the case of FBI vs. Apple, which brings the complexities regarding security technology such as encryption to light.

Minneapolis' new transit deployment seems limited and even old school—it's a closed loop payment system that's only available on buses and not on the Twin Cities' expanding light rail system.

The CFPB released an annual report Tuesday that revealed service members have been submitting debt collection complaints at nearly twice the rate of non-military consumers.

Many moons after the U.S. payment industry adopted a largely chip-and-signature approach to EMV instead of chip-and-PIN security that’s standard elsewhere, rising merchant chargebacks are leading some to question the wisdom of PIN-free payments.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office has reached a $19.7 million settlement with Cavalry Portfolio Services in a six-year-old case where the debt collection firm faced accusations of pursuing debts in West Virginia without a license to do so.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces a tough balancing act as it seeks to issue a proposal to rein in high-cost payday loans.

Bangladesh's central bank has suggested the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had a "major lapse" in allowing hackers to transfer $101 million in transactions that it later flagged as suspicious, according to an internal document seen by Bloomberg.

The Federal Trade Commission cautioned the collection industry to avoid buying, selling or collecting any alleged payday loan debt portfolios serviced by AMG Services.

There are shortcomings in prevailing chargeback procedures that are costing merchants billions of dollars each year.

If an independent sales organization wants to convert a merchant to the most current faster payment technologies, the ISO itself must practice what it preaches.