Sentence examples for consumer payment from inspiring English sources

Reporting agencies gather consumer payment histories from creditors that are sometimes less concerned with accuracy than they should be.

"We were looking at the extent to which consumer payment habits were changing," Ms. Driskill said, adding that "historically, cash and checks have been the dominant payment mechanism".

Its recent move to increase reserves by $2 billion, which executives say was based on signs of stress in economic and consumer payment data, suggests the situation will get worse.

"People may need a little bit of a heads-up about the new bill because of the color change," said David Robertson, publisher of the Nilson Report, a trade journal for people who work with consumer payment systems.

David Robertson, publisher of a newsletter about consumer payment systems called The Nilson Report, said that for most people the difference in service charges between using a credit card and withdrawing cash in the local currency from an A.T.M. is not that great.

While dollar volumes at giants like Amazon and eBay are adequately served by existing systems, a major opportunity exists to create the next compelling consumer payment method for the internet-era – which would be the first major innovation in the space since the launch of PayPal in 1999.

Currently, most gas and electric utilities don't report most consumer payments to credit bureaue.

More than half of all consumer payments in the nation are paid with credit or debit cards, officials said.

The groom, 30, is a director of mergers and acquisitions in the Manhattan office of ACI Worldwide, a firm that sells software enabling consumer payments on the Web.

They acted as both buyers and sellers and directed transactions to the fraudulent escrow service so they could steal consumer payments.

One provision would require the credit card companies to apply consumer payments first to any debt that has the highest interest rate.