Merchant

Versatile, high-tech digital gift card sales are going strong for this year’s holiday season, but in the latest sign that plastic cards many never die, eBay has partnered with gift card giant InComm to sell traditional gift cards online that will take up to 10 days to arrive by mail.

TransUnion has acquired Trustev, an e-commerce ID and fraud protection startup based in Ireland, in a $44 million deal - including $21 million initially and $23 million more contingent on meeting certain targets.

Dealing with late and missed payments from creditors is a chronic complaint of small businesses, who are often stretched too thin to chase down money owed to them. But a U.K.-based startup aims to attack that problem with YayPay, an automated invoicing platform with a bill-collections feature that launched this week in the U.S.

Exciting growth opportunities exist for small and medium businesses taking advantage of the ever-increasing holiday shopping season. However, amidst this positive backdrop, lurks the negative threat posed by hackers and cyber criminals that prey on holiday shoppers and businesses.

U.S. transactions processor Global Payments Inc. is in talks to buy smaller rival Heartland Payment Systems Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Industry groups representing a range of companies in retail, technology, financial services and utilities filed eight amicus briefs last week in a D.C. Circuit Court supporting challenges to the FCC's landmark ruling that expanded the agency’s rules under the TCPA.

Despite their own vast resources, some large banks are partnering with fintech startups to help them meet the needs of one of their trickiest market segments: small businesses

Even though Walmart has been a key member and driving force behind the Merchant Customer Exchange joint venture to establish a new mobile wallet, the retailer's addition of Walmart Pay to its mobile app is consistent with strategy, and will lead to a wave of individual bank and retailer initiatives.

JPMorgan Chase has shuffled three top executives in credit cards, mortgages and mortgage servicing.

The best commercial lenders take enough interest in their clients to speak up when they see credit as not serving the long-term success of a company.