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Credit bureau TransUnion is diversifying its online security services with a strategic partnership announced this week with Dashlane, provider of a fast-growing password-management platform.

FleetCor has partnered with IBM Cloud services to help manage increasing customer demand and data as it grows its business into new markets.

Fleet card provider WEX has extended its fuel management program with QuikTrip, a convenience store and gasoline marketer.

Discover's new consumer credit information product provides FICO scores and a summary of the data that determines that score.

Square's practice of using its merchant transaction data for risk analysis may seem innovative, but other other agile specialists—including Intuit—are finding ways to use new data streams to limit risk and deliver funds to borrowers.

Counterfeit card fraud is finally on the way down as EMV creeps into the U.S. marketplace, but card not present (CNP) fraud through online channels is skyrocketing. It's too soon, however, to blame the EMV shift.

MasterCard Inc., the second-largest U.S. payments network, reported profit that beat analysts’ estimates as card spending increased.

Visa issuers will be required by October of this year to provide a transaction alert service to cardholders — but if they don't have a plan in place this week, Visa will step in with its own offering.

Capital One's rewards and marketing may cause some short-term performance issues, but the institution's aggressive posture is necessary in the current environment, the company's CEO said.

It didn't take long for debit card issuers affected by the Durbin amendment fee caps to cut back or eliminate rewards programs to recoup costs. Issuers now engaged in the increasingly competitive credit card rewards and loyalty environment may soon have to face that same decision.

American Express is determined to minimize the damage from losing profitable Costco cardholders in Canada and the U.S., and is taking steps to keep as many of those customers in the Amex fold as possible.

American Express Co., the credit-card issuer grappling with the loss of co-brand partners, posted first-quarter profit that beat estimates as customer spending increased.

Discover Financial Services, the credit-card issuer that’s expanded to student lending and unsecured personal loans, posted first-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates as card spending increased.

The payments pioneer is transforming its merchant cash advance into a business loan, a move that has significant legal and regulatory implications.

Peer-to-peer lending startup Ledge incorporates on millennial staples like social networking and open development to get on its feet while relying on a road paved by the financial services 'establishment' to go mainstream.

American Express Co. cut Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Chenault's pay 26 percent to the lowest level since 2008 after the credit-card lender's stock and profit slumped last year.

Merchants that postponed their EMV migration are feeling the sting of losses connected to the EMV liability shift. They are now shoring up their fraud defenses and—in some cases—speeding up their EMV-migration plans.

American Express Co. will increase lending to U.S. customers as competitors offer to lower their acceptance costs to win credit-card partnerships with big merchants, Chief Executive Officer Ken Chenault said.

Prosper Marketplace is rebranding a personal-finance app that it acquired last year, a key part of the firm’s efforts to engage more frequently with its borrowers.

A significant gap remains between the credit scores of women-owned companies and those owned by men, according to a Biz2Credit.com survey.