Merchant

Navient, a loan management, servicing and asset recovery company that services approximately $300 billion in student loans, released fourth-quarter and full-year financial results that reveal total delinquency rates are at the lowest levels in a decade.

RealtyTrac on Wednesday released its Year-End 2015 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, which shows that there were 6.4 million U.S. properties seriously underwater - where the combined loan amount secured by the property is at least 25% higher than the property’s estimated market value.

Any way you slice it, 2015 was the year of fintech. From Bitcoin to marketplace lending and everything in between, fintech was a venture capital honey trap and a cocktail party buzzword.

Verifone, which is challenged to move beyond its reliance on selling traditional payments hardware, is producing an almost dizzying array of products in hopes of diversifying.

The pressure on merchant acquirers to enable transactions in more channels for more merchant types is accelerating, and TSYS is turning to the M&A market to accelerate its digital diversification, announcing an agreement with Vista Equity Partners to acquire Vista portfolio company TransFirst for $2.35 billion in cash.

Retailers often worry that their customers won't return after a breach, but as logical as this expectation is, it may be far from the truth.

A racketeering lawsuit against Sherman Financial Group, one of the country's largest debt buyers, can't move forward as a class action, a federal judge in Indianapolis has ruled.

A federal appeals court will hear the case of mortgage lender PHH Corp. v. CFPB on April 12, a case the collection industry will be closely watching.

Consumers may not care much about mobile payments, but many of them care a lot about mobile loyalty.

Vending machines were among the first categories to accept contactless mobile payments, but they still rely heavily on cash for impulse snack purchases — at least for now.