Merchant

A judge ordered a Michigan hospital to pay more than $2.7 million as a result of a lawsuit involving plaintiffs who loaned the hospital money.

E-commerce technology company Spindle and payment gateway PayLeap are combining products in an attempt to lower costs for small to medium-sized gun clubs.

A lawsuit filed by Indiana’s attorney general accuses a test preparation company of deceptive practices. Unlike a separate New York lawsuit filed against the firm this month, the complaint does not name an affiliate collection agency.

Realex Payments, a division of Global Payments, has signed a three-year deal to process e-commerce and call-center transactions for insurance provider Aviva.

Following up on First Data's launch of the Clover Mini mobile point of sale device, TruBeacon has placed software in the Clover App Market that will link data from the payment terminal over a network of multiple retail locations.

Mobile payments are hot. Industry insiders both hope and fear new technology will upend reigning retail payment systems such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express.

Mobile card acceptance devices have changed a lot in recent years. They are now much more complex than the simple plug-in card readers many are familiar with. And their evolution is far from over.

What good is having a mobile point of sale (mPOS) device if retailers glue it to the countertop? In a new IHL report that tries to size up the mPOS market, IHL points out that most merchants are happy to ignore the mobility inherent in their new technology.

Since the start of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the debt collection industry has lived in a box of great unknowns.

Ally Financial and Ally Bank is starting to pay back $80 million to minority borrowers that the federal government found were victims of discrimination as a result of the companies’ indirect auto lending business.