Merchant

Card-linked marketing is a useful but underused method to reach consumers, according to a new survey of chief marketing officers by Bank of America and The CMO Club.

Square is seeking a buyer, according to multiple reports, but the company's official statement indicates otherwise.

U.S. hospitals increasingly are reviewing patients' credit scores. The idea is to identify patients needing counseling options about payment plans or charity care but the information also helps with debt collections.

Sallie Mae's contract with the Education Department to collect payments on federal student loans could be at risk as a result of a federal probe looking at whether the lender cheated military borrowers.

A successful e-business has two essential ingredients. It must be easy to make payments, and it must come up quickly when consumers are searching online.

Rockville Centre, N.Y., is bringing back Parkeon's parking meters after a pilot last year, but is removing a feature that provides consumers with coupons to local merchants.

The head of an operation that allowed telemarketers to make robocalls offering credit card services, hide Caller ID information and call numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry is banned under a settlement with the federal government.

Scammers in Maine are calling residents and telling them they owe money to the state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

A report on student loan debt suggests that borrowing by people in graduate and professional degree programs is rising and could total a larger-than-expected portion of the nation’s $1 trillion in total outstanding federal student loans.

A federal judge approved a class-action settlement against a law firm and collection agency for alleged Fair Debt Collection Practices Act violations.