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An auto loan company that allegedly offered illegal loans to Oregon residents is being sued by the state's attorney general.

American Express is introducing one of the payments industry's first prepaid debit cards with cashback rewards in an age where the best rewards are typically reserved for the more lucrative credit card market.

When 650-store discount chain Fred's announced a data breach this month, it made an unwarranted leap of logic, one that has become all-too-common among breached retailers. That leap was deciding that an absence of evidence was proof that something didn’t happen.

Target Corp. reached a settlement with Visa Inc. over a hacker attack that struck the chain during the 2013 holiday season and exposed millions of customers' personal information.

The mortgage delinquency rate - the rate of borrowers 60 days or more delinquent on their mortgages - continued its fast decline, falling to 2.72% in the second quarter ended June 30, according to TransUnion.

Once again the markets have fallen in love with a group of young, aggressive and not very regulated lenders.

City officials in Trenton, N.J. have hired a collection agency to pursue more than $2.9 million in outstanding municipal court fines.

Two research associations have filed a joint motion to intervene in a court case against new telephone rules issued by the Federal Communications Commission.

The FTC announced that judges for its Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back contest selected a first place winner for the $25,000 cash prize for building a mobile app that blocks and forwards robocalls to a crowd-sourced honeypot.

The United States is one the last developed countries to migrate to an EMV-based payments infrastructure, with a card network-imposed liability shift going into effect on October 1.