Merchant

American Express has added five new acquirers to its OptBlue program, designed to make Amex card acceptance easier for smaller merchants.

United Kingdom-based payday lender Cheque Centre is permanently leaving the payday loan business and has suspended related debt collection calls following enforcement action by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Collection efforts by businesses often damage customer relationships with negative communications tactics, according to a survey of 1,000 respondents commissioned by Nuance.

Executives at processor Total System Services can't predict which of the many existing mobile payments technologies will dominate the payments landscape of the future, but they plan to aggressively go after the processing business that follows.

Square Inc. now lets its merchants get feedback from customers through a response window added to its digital receipts. Appropriately, the new service is called Square Feedback.

Jusp, an Italian maker of mobile payment systems, is offering its technology on Nokia's Windows-based Lumia smartphones.

A new war is brewing between banks and their customers, and the fight is going public.

Six years after an investigation revealed EDebitPay LLC, Dale P. Cleveland and William R. Wilson and three now-defunct companies debited consumers' bank accounts without consent, checks totaling $3.7 million are finally on their way to the consumers.

Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) introduced legislation to amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.

E-commerce has led to a rapid expansion of the options and methods of executing payments.