Merchant

MasterCard has joined forces with celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson to deploy its Qkr app at the product's first restaurant location in the United States.

Taco Bell will start its first customer-loyalty program later this year in an effort to keep diners coming into the restaurants regularly.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule Wednesday aimed at improving the way that companies submit consumer credit card agreements to the Bureau.

U.S. foreclosure activity rose sharply in March on an increase in bank repossessions, but dropped in the first quarter to the lowest mark in eight years, according to a report by industry firm RealtyTrac.

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, in testimony before Congress, detailed the agency’s education and outreach efforts against identity theft and Internal Revenue Service imposter scams.

In the payments’ context, establishing an inclusive process is easier said than done, since the majority of stakeholders interact with payment systems at the periphery without much awareness of its inner workings. While payments are often compared to a "plumbing system" or rails, it's actually more helpful to see the ecosystem as a "highway."

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council released its 3.1 update to the industry's data security standards April 15 to address the payment data vulnerabilities of the Secure Sockets Layer encryption protocol.

Debt buyer Asta Funding agreed Wednesday to settle charges brought by New York regulators for allegedly pursuing improper debt collection tactics against hundreds of consumers in the state.

A medical debt relief bill in Minnesota would give consumers the right to go to court to stop a collection action on medical debt that violates federal IRS rules.

A lawsuit filed last month by four student loan debt collection companies against the U.S. Department of Education was dismissed Tuesday by a federal judge.