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VACAVILLE, Calif. – Travis CU has launched a Facebook contest that encourages people to visit and like the credit union’s Facebook page for a chance to win weekly prizes, as well as a chance to win a $10,000 cash prize.

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan credit unions will mark the oncoming awarding of their annual $100,000 Save to Win prize by giving out 10 $10,000 savings prizes during the “Week of Winning” statewide tour.

The FTC is returning nearly $350,000 to consumers who allegedly were duped by marketers using illegal robocalls to claim they could reduce consumers’ credit card interest rates.

With multiple loan categories growing more than 10%, 2012 was another solid year at Randolph-Brooks FCU.

With the clock ticking for ATM owners to begin accepting EMV chip cards, BPC Banking Technologies plans to bring software to the U.S. to help banks navigate the complex conversion to smart-card technology on their ATM fleets.

Payment technology is gaining momentum and changing rapidly. More and more places around the world are adopting unique methods of payment.

The National ATM Council Inc. says MasterCard should delay its upcoming April 19 ATM liability shift deadline for its Maestro cards used at U.S. ATMs, based on the industry's slowness in deciding on a common code for EMV debit transactions to satisfy federal routing choice mandates.

The anonymous digital currency Bitcoin, which is already accepted on the Wordpress blogging site, has another mainstream partner. Reddit, the social news and entertainment site, now accepts bitcoins as payment for Reddit Gold, a subscription service.

Coinstar and PayPal are in the midst of a nationwide expansion of the integration they have tested since last May. The partnership allows consumers to use the change-counting kiosks to load, withdraw and send funds from their PayPal accounts.

Personal financial management provider Pageonce has added a person-to-person payments service to its mobile-focused software feature set.