Fintech

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law HB 2432, which means credit unions and other deployers of ATMs will no longer be required to display a physical sign disclosing ATM terminal fees.

MasterCard's biometric security venture with the South African Social Security Agency has helped the agency distribute more than 10 million active MasterCard debit cards throughout the country.

Gas station owners may have the most difficult task of any retailers in preparing for mobile payments and EMV cards because of their dated systems and equipment — and because many of their customers fear that using their phones at the pump will cause fires.

WAXHAW, N.C. – Both banks and credit unions are placing greater emphasis on investment services programs, according to a new report from Kehrer Saltzman & Associates.

With the fate of debit interchange rates wrapped tightly in legal red tape, the payments industry is facing uncertainty at a time it can least afford it.

Bitcoin Ventures Inc.'s new CoinTap allows consumers to obtain bitcoins by purchasing a stored-value card in retail stores.

PayPal has made its portable chip-and-PIN card reader, called PayPal Here, available to all merchants in the U.K.

Moven has contracted with online and mobile payments company Payveris to provide payment services for the financial services startup.

Social payment provider Akimbo has launched a co-branding platform that enables banks and credit unions to offer Visa prepaid cards that connect to Facebook accounts for money movement.

UniRush is finding that the audience for prepaid cards is going well beyond the underbanked. The company, which offers the prepaid RushCard, is responding with a new approach to better appeal to this new audience.