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With more consumers using mobile devices for banking and credit card monitoring, a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee is examining the impact of mobile technology on consumers’ financial decisions.

Viableware has added the ability for full-service restaurants to accept EMV-chip cards with its handheld card reader, Rail.

The U.S. is roughly two years into its migration to chip payments, but in the last few months I have seen the tide turn and this migration start to really pick up speed. But before I talk about where we are now, it’s important to understand where we have been and how we have arrived here.

More than 4,800 consumers were defrauded by National Card Monitor LLC, a telemarketing operation that promised to lower consumers’ credit card interest rates for an advance fee.

An Ohio county is reviewing whether to sell its delinquent properties as a bundle through a tax lien sale with the successful bidder then pursuing the debts.

Biometric authentication company NXT-ID will soon roll out a wallet that is designed to digitally store payment cards without a mobile phone.

As independent sales organizations (ISOs) offer new payment technology and other services to improve merchant relationships, the ISOs have to decide whether to charge a fee—a difficult decision that can differ from one merchant to another.

Starbucks may soon make the tools behind its successful m-commerce strategy available to other retailers.

Equifax Inc. disclosed in its quarterly report that it has received a request for information from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of an investigation into whether consumer reporting agencies are violating the law.

Home value declines experienced during the recession have been, or are close to being, erased in nearly 20% of metro housing markets nationwide, according to Zillow Real Estate Market Reports first quarter assessment.