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InComm will work with the Merchant Customer Exchange to support digital gift card and loyalty programs for retailers, while also expanding MCX's CurrentC mobile wallet to more locations.

EBay's planned spinoff of PayPal, announced today, is a necessary and inevitable response to the influx of disruption coming to the payments industry from unconventional sources. As companies like Amazon.com, Apple and Wal-Mart take a growing interest in the payments market, PayPal's status as a unit of a rival e-commerce company limited its role.

Debt collectors scored a major victory when a court reversed a ruling in the case of Gulf Coast Collection Bureau Inc. v. Mais.

Shopkick is being acquired by SK Planet (SKP), and aims to replicate success of its Seoul-based buyer, which serves three-quarters of South Korea's population of 50 million.

The data breach affecting 216 of Jimmy John's restaurant locations had, at its source, an increasingly common exploit: remote-access passwords.

Consumer spending recovered in August as steady income growth and employment gains led more Americans to auto dealerships and retail stores, the Commerce Department said Monday.

The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a proposal that would expand the types of credit products that are covered by the 36% rate cap and other military-specific protections under the Military Lending Act.

Ukash is expanding its reach in Spain by working with Logista, giving the online cash payment provider a presence at nearly 13,000 more point of sale terminals in the country.

The National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys has responded to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposal to make consumer narratives public.

Hospitals will save $5.7 billion in uncompensated care costs this year because of the Affordable Care Act, with those found in states that have expanded Medicaid projected to save the bulk of the total, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services.