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The Federal Trade Commission, in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, highlighted its approach to protecting consumers from unwanted telemarketing calls and illegal robocalls.

The Spanish-language TV channel Univision has launched a new online small-business lending platform.

Merchants have an appetite for mobile technology, but they don't always know how to feed their hunger, according to PayPal's Brad Brodigan.

Nearly 80% of consumers making payments to doctors or hospitals would prefer to do so through a one-click method on their health-plan provider's website, according to data from health care payments provider InstaMed.

Marketplace lending company Lending Club is teaming up with a California-based nonprofit organization to make loans to small businesses that otherwise would have had their applications rejected.

Wirecard AG has added a link to Google's search engine marketing service to its Checkout Portal.

Ingenico Group has provided its EMV-enabled terminals and software to the retailer Batteries Plus Bulbs, in preparation for the October deadline for EMV-chip card adoption.

Community banks are facing tough choices when it comes to using outsourced labor or beefing up their own staff to handle risk-management tasks.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., the state’s top jobs agency, has written off $7.6 million in taxpayer-funded loans in the four years since it was created.

A California mortgage bank, Guarantee Mortgage Corp., must pay a civil penalty of $228,000 for paying its branch managers based, in part, on the interest rates of the loans they closed.