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AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine’s credit unions rolled out a new, two-year awareness campaign this month called “Now is the Time,” which encourages consumers to take advantage of the many benefits that credit unions offer.

It's shopping season in the payments industry. Just last month, Ingenico, ACI Worldwide and Fidelity National Information Services announced separate acquisitions. Many other companies have bought their peers in recent months.

Visa Inc. has featured the San Francisco 49ers all season in a humorous TV commercial based on a fanatic 49ers fan somehow making his way into the team locker room to deliver a fiery pep talk.

The portion of the population that relies heavily on cash is seeing new ways to use more mainstream financial services, including methods to better load cash onto stored-value cards.

Western Union is expanding its relationship with MasterCard on two fronts, by focusing narrowly on tax preparation stores with a prepaid card and expanding its remittance program in Latin America.

Last year, KeyBank saw an important gap in its credit card strategy – not owning its card portfolio meant it did not have the control it needed to properly manage its relationships with its customers.

NEW YORK – A U.S. appeals court yesterday declined to hear a review of a lower court’s preliminary approval of the landmark antitrust suit against Visa and MasterCard, insisting it won’t hear the appeal until a final decision is rendered by the lower court.

Profits at the prepaid card issuer Green Dot fell sharply in the fourth quarter but still came in higher than analysts had expected.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Ukrainian FCU has acquired Ukrainian Home Dnipro FCU, a single-branch, $9-million Buffalo credit union.

Data security provider iovation Inc. has released two-factor phone authentication software it says will provide extra protection for consumers making online purchases.