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A U.S. district court has halted a collection operation that allegedly extorted payments from consumers by using threats of lawsuits and calculated campaigns to embarrass consumers by unlawfully communicating with family members, friends and coworkers.

A symbiotic relationship between security and revenue may sound too good to be true, but it's not. ISOs and acquirers can succeed by creating opportunities that pair enhanced PCI compliance tools with new revenue streams.

PayPal is making programming tools available worldwide to allow software developers outside the U.S. to integrate PayPal payments into their applications.

MasterCard, which announced its earnings hours after the Isis mobile wallet venture revealed plans to expand nationwide, faced questions over where the card network fits in the evolving mobile payments ecosystem.

Research and Markets, a global market research firm, has announced the release of the "UK Consumer Debt Purchase and Debt Collection: Market Insight" report.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Tuesday that Hampshire Memorial Hospital and Mosaic Finance Solutions, based in North Carolina, will each pay the state $7,500 as part of an agreement, called an assurance of discontinuance, to end illegal collection practices.

Payoneer Inc. CEO Scott Galit says a new partnership with online marketplace Fiverr illustrates how his company is positioned for providing payments services in a changing business world.

A federal judge has found in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in its case against an online operation that illegally debited consumers’ bank accounts when they visited the defendants’ Web sites seeking payday loans.

MasterCard Inc.'s digital wallet continues its move around the globe, as consumers in the U.K. today became the latest to have access to MasterPass.

Visa and MasterCard have agreed to share their common application identifier technology, enabling EMV-chip based debit transactions to originate from a single application while allowing merchants a choice of networks for routing.