Colin Wilhelm

Mobile payments company Yapital has partnered with the German supermarket chain Wasgau to support smartphone payments with minimal technology upgrades.

Slyce, a two-year-old company that allows consumers to take pictures of items to make purchases, has launched a "visual shopping app" called Pounce.

Inte Q has named Steven Kietz, a veteran of financial services companies such as Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, its president.

Consumer activists are targeting the use of arbitration clauses at Wells Fargo and PNC Financial Services Group.

Virtual Piggy, which provides the Oink online wallet service for their youths, will release a prepaid Discover card to extend its offering to retail stores.

Alternative lender FastPay, which specializes in lending to digital media startups, received $15 million from newly formed Oak HC/FT, a $500 million growth-equity fund that invests in health care and financial technology.

An estimated 30% of American smartphone owners will use Apple Pay or Google Wallet while holiday shopping, according to a study commissioned by Stratos Inc.

Car loan delinquencies have risen significantly from the same time last year, a new report by Experian Automotive, an Irish market intelligence firm with U.S. headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif.

The Independent Community Bankers of America is taking issue with the White House's selection of investment banker Antonio Weiss to become Treasury undersecretary of domestic finance, joining a growing list of those criticizing the nomination.

Orion Federal Credit Union will pay a 1% dividend to all of its premium checking account holders.

Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has selected 18 students from colleges around the country to participate in its inaugural SVB Trek, a program connecting students to West Coast tech leaders, including entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), commonly referred to as Metro, will launch a contactless payment pilot to open doors for open-loop mobile wallets to be used for transit fare.

First Financial Northwest in Renton, Wash., has gotten regulatory approval to receive a $70 million dividend from its bank unit.

Wells Financial in Wells, Minn., has agreed to buy St. James Federal Savings and Loan Association in St. James, Minn.

New Zealand-based financial services institution Westpac has contracted Gemalto, a Dutch digital security company, to provide its mobile payment technology to Westpac's customers.

Uber, the ubiquitous black-car company that popularized the use of mobile apps to book rides, will switch to a two-tiered payment system to continue operations in India.

J. Thomas Wiley will become chief executive of the company's banking unit. The move could free up Joe Evans, the company's CEO, to focus on deploying capital, which could include more acquisitions.

Space Coast Credit Union will work with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment and banking service provider headquartered in Naples, Fla., for its online and mobile banking as well as electronic payments.

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered two debt sellers—St. Petersburg Florida's Bayview Solutions, LLC and Riverside, California's Cornerstone and Company, LLC — to notify customers about alleged disclosures of their personal information.

ConnectOne Bancorp in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., expects to record a charge in the fourth quarter tied to an online fraud scheme.