Tag: FTC

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a long history of protecting consumers from scammers, fraudsters, and snake oil salesmen. In ...

Keeping credit bureau data accurate is a massive task the industry has toiled with since credit cards became a mass-market ...

I’ve been developing technology solutions that mitigate fraud and identity scams for almost 35 years. With that historical perspective, I ...

Probably the least regarded segment of credit cards is the lowly collection agency. They work at the back end of ...

This is one small example of how important it is for acquirers to properly identify its merchants during the onboarding ...

The days of the email from a “foreign prince” asking for money are no longer upon us, but scammers are ...

Questions over the freedom for merchants to route transactions to any of the global networks (Mastercard and Visa) and also ...

When the Durbin amendment was enacted, merchants cheered the cap on interchange fees, at least on those cards issued by ...

Last week, person-to-person payment app Venmo finalized a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission regarding security and consumer disclosure practices.  ...