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Acculynk has entered a partnership with Gesa Credit Union to pilot Payzur, a peer-to-peer payment system.

The alternative payments provider Dwolla has garnered much attention from its recent move to facilitate payments through Twitter, but the concept has been tried before — repeatedly, and with few success stories.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Freedom Credit Union here has launchd its first marketing campaign aimed at the Latino community in Western Massachusetts.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – A new series of TV commercials that let consumers know credit unions are in the lending business, are friendly and have great rates are out now in this state courtesy of the Pennsylvania CU Association’s successful iBelong image campaign.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Gulf Winds FCU is absorbing via merger 5,500-member SCORE Federal Credit Union in Tallahassee, Fla.

TULSA, Okla. – The $1.2-billion Tulsa Teachers Credit Union has officially changed its name to “TTCU The Credit Union,” a trade name it has unofficially been using for several years.

U.S. consumers have spent $33.8 billion at online merchants this holiday shopping season, representing a 13% increase over e-commerce spending during the same period last year, according to Internet usage analytics firm comScore.

First Data Corp. called 2012 the “year of universal commerce,” meaning commerce happens anywhere, anytime and on any type of device.

VeriFone Systems Inc., the largest maker of credit-card terminals, was sued by Creative Mobile Technologies LLC for more than $250 million over an agreement to place advertisements on screens in New York taxis.

U.S. Bancorp released Saturday a new mobile app designed for its prepaid card customers.