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With mobile-payment technology advancing seemingly at the speed of a mobile payment itself, one has to wonder how long it might be before consumers wouldn’t need, or even possess, plastic cards to conduct transactions.

Still mourning the demise of overdraft-fee income, smaller banks nevertheless are finding a variety of ways to compensate.

M-Via has added free ATM cash withdrawals to its fee structure for Boom, a service for the unbanked to manage monetary accounts through mobile phones, the mobile-payment network provider announced March 27.

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU is partnering again with the State Employees Association of North Carolina to offer discounted tickets to the state’s major amusements, including Busch Gardens, Carowinds, Jungle Rapids Family Fun Park, Kings Dominion, Myrtle Waves, NASCAR Speedpark, Pavilion Nostalgia Park and Wet’nWild Emerald Pointe.

EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Employees FCU is celebrating its rebranding as Evolve FCU with a film festival featuring local filmmakers.

DENVER – Bellco CU has extended its contract with local marketing company GroundFloor Media to provide the $2-billion credit union with comprehensive media support.

Visa Inc. scored a coup in persuading Kevin Knight, Nordstrom Inc.'s credit card czar, to oversee its credit and debit card products in North America.

Financial institutions in the Shazam electronic funds transfer network now may help their members with identity-theft recovery, a process that can be costly in both dollars and time.

The Federal Trade Commission put a robocall operation out of the telemarketing business under a settlement resolving charges that the operation made more than two billion calls pitching a variety of products and services, including worthless extended auto warranties and credit card interest rate-reduction programs.

Nordstrom Inc.'s credit card czar is joining Visa Inc.