Merchant

Apple Pay’s struggles to build its user base are nothing compared with the labors of Sionic Mobile, which has been on a six-year odyssey of inventing and reinventing its mobile payments app.

A significant gap remains between the credit scores of women-owned companies and those owned by men, according to a Biz2Credit.com survey.

A significant gap remains between the credit scores of women-owned companies and those owned by men, according to a Biz2Credit.com survey.

A new survey from seven regional Federal Reserve banks found that many small businesses are going online to access credit. But even when they are approved, applicants often end up dissatisfied because the loans carry high interest rates or have unfavorable repayment terms.

Total U.S. bankruptcy filings fell 1% to 64,662 in February compared to 65,064 in February 2015, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, based on data provided by Epiq Systems.

Oversight of the four largest mortgage servicers' compliance with the national mortgage settlement is officially over, the watchdog supervising the process said Thursday.

New requirements and guidance from the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council will be released to merchants in April, which is about six months earlier than its normal update cycle.

Debt-buying giant Encore Capital Group has announced it expanded its consumer Bill of Rights to identify customers on active military duty, thus halting all collections on their accounts.

In explaining JPMorgan Chase's commitment to the Chase Pay mobile wallet, Gordon Smith told investors in February that the mobile payment landscape was going to get more complicated before it gets simpler.

Of all the initials small to mid-sized merchants hear during the digital payments migration—"EMV," NFC," "mPOS"—an older abbreviation may finally pry open the door to widespread payments automation: CRM.