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Premier Consulting Group settled CFPB charges on Thursday, a month after another debt settlement firm's case closed with a nine-year prison sentence for its owner.

Wearable computing is very much a nascent market, but by using flexible programming methods PNC hopes to be ready to deploy payments apps when the technology takes off.

Daily spending among middle- and lower-income Americans, those with annual household incomes of less than $90,000 a year, increased to $79 in November from $76 in October, according to a new Gallup poll.

A class-action lawsuit filed in California accuses CorrectiveSolutions of unfairly collecting debts by paying district attorneys to use their letterheads and seals.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has approved several new rules for debt collectors, including an extended period for consumers to dispute a collection attempt.

New York regulators on Wednesday are set to announce new debt collection rules that will require collectors to produce loan documents or a court judgment if requested. Regulators believe the rules will help guide an industry that has gone largely unregulated despite thousands of consumer complaints each year.

An Atlanta-based health billing company and its former CEO settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they misled thousands of consumers who signed up for an online billing portal.

Charity care and community benefit at the Cleveland Clinic jumped to $652 million in 2013, up 7% from $610 million in 2012, according to numbers released by health system.

Abila, a software provider for nonprofits, is working with two payment processors to expand its cloud-based relationship management platform.

Lowell Group, a United Kingdom-based provider of credit management services specializing in debt recovery and data analytics, has earned a consulting agency's highest rating awarded for customer service.