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Columbia Ultimate, an expert in technology and integrated solutions for the collection industry, has announced the addition of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau session to its upcoming 2014 Art of Success conference.

Community Health Systems, a for-profit hospital operator, will pay the federal government to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims for short-stay admissions.

Municipal Collections of America will recover outstanding parking ticket fines and unpaid civil penalties for red-light violations in Tuscaloosa, Ala. under a contract city council members approved this week.

Mobile card readers like Square and PayPal Here must inevitably offer an EMV-chip card option to U.S. merchants, but how soon is too soon? And what are the consequences of arriving too late?

Third-party debt collectors recovered $55.2 billion last year for creditor and government clients, returning to them an estimated $45 billion.

Global Payments' integrated solutions division has released CustomerBuilder, a new application designed to enable users to create, distribute and track digital card offers.

Comerica has hired payments processor Vantiv as the financial institution continues a legal battle stemming from a discontinued joint venture with Global Payments, which a judge says has taken a "hostile attitude" toward the bank.

The operator of a massive mobile cramming scheme agreed to surrender more than $1.2 million in assets to settle FTC charges. The assets include several bank accounts, two luxury cars, shares in a number of startup companies and multiple luxury watches.

New OCC guidelines for the sale of consumer debt detail the steps banks must take before selling charged-off consumer loans, including making banks responsible for performing due diligence on debt buyers before a sale.

Nearly one in four U.S. banks reported they eased mortgage-lending standards for borrowers with strong credit during the second quarter.