Discover Financial Services' processing agreement with First Data Corp. is just the first step in the card company's efforts to streamline its acquiring process for small and midsize merchants. First ...

American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services both report that enlisting bank card acquirers to grow their merchant networks is paying off. Until their initiatives started, merchants had to ...

Due to its concerns that card-acquiring services might not be offering value for money for merchants, the PSR decided to conduct a comprehensive review of the card-acquiring sector focussing on the ...