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Arizona Central CU has signed a deal with the NBA's Phoenix Suns and the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury.

Synchrony Financial signed a multiyear extension with Chevron to issue cards and the two companies introduced a new rewards program.

The use of prepaid cards has skyrocketed, thanks in part to rising popularity among consumers who already have a checking or savings account, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.

NCR Corp. will support its mobile cash withdrawal service through China's Bank of Ningbo's mobile app.

Meta Financial Group in Sioux Falls, S.D., parent of MetaBank and Meta Payment Systems, is raising capital to fuel a future acquisition, and has renewed a significant prepaid card issuing relationship with NetSpend.

Payment technology provider Cayan says it has become one of fewer than 20 American companies to earn Level 2 EMV certification from standards governing body EMVCo.

End-to-end wireless transactions provider Apriva has teamed up with parking payment technology provider Amana McGann to integrate EMV technology into parking systems across the United States.

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry nationwide. In the wake of this historic ruling that caps the biggest civil rights transformation in a half-century, Credit Union Journal looks back at a report about how CUs can grow their businesses by pitching wedding-related products to same-sex couples.

New data from the League of Southeastern Credit Unions found that CUs in Florida and Alabama added more than 100,000 new members during the first three months of 2015 as well as some other impressive gains.

Officials at NAFCU say they have been considering allowing federally insured, state-chartered, credit unions into the trade group for nearly a decade. NAFCU announced Tuesday that it had changed its bylaws to expand membership to nearly all CUs in the nation.