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RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU said this morning it has created a property management subsidiary, called SECU*Real Estate, to provide the credit union with the ability to streamline management of real estate property owned throughout North Carolina.

Foursquare is adding Visa and MasterCard to its special deals roster, enabling the social media company’s 30 million users to link their credit and debit cards to Foursquare to receive discounts at merchants, according to a report in Ad Age.

Visa is making several moves to demonstrate that it is willing to adopt new payments products on the Visa network. In an interview with PaymentsSource, Matt Dill, head of global business development and emerging products for Visa, provides a look into the card brand's future.

WASHINGTON – Saying it is time credit unions take even greater advantage of a cultural shift away from big banks, CUNA President Bill Cheney urged CUs to begin telling one story thousands of times.

Amex says it will offer ezeClick to its card members in India as an online payment option that is meant to improve security and speed up the checkout process.

With its MasterPass program, MasterCard's mobile-pay strategy seems to be solidifying. But the details show that payments technology is still very fluid.

The mobile payment technology provider Spindle Inc. announced an agreement with NCR Corp. to resell NCR Silver, the ATM vendor's mobile point of sale system.

Visa Inc. is teaming up with phonemaker Samsung Electronics Co. to provide a financial program to enable mobile handsets to be used like a credit or debit card.

WASHINGTON – MasterCard said this morning during CUNA’s Government Affairs Conference that Lake Trust CU will be one of the first credit unions to test its new digital wallet, MasterPass, as part of a broader roll-out to credit unions.

The surge of membership resulting from Bank Transfer Day is good news overall, but it has not done much to lower the overall age of members.