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Back in the early 2000s, it was considered risky for credit-card companies to lean heavily on their websites to sign up new customers. The perception was that people who were scouring the Web for credit offers tended to be desperate and unreliable.

It's not just merchants, issuers and technology companies that are using mobile technology to sell new payment services. As a business software provider, Intuit has been uniquely positioned to link its products to a number of payment initiatives.

Orion Federal Credit Union will pay a 1% dividend to all of its premium checking account holders.

Credit union differentiation strategies are on display in a new white paper from the CUNA Marketing & Business Development Council, “Blueprint for Member Growth: Creating a Strategic Business Development Plan.”

Square, which made a short-lived attempt at digital gift cards in late 2012, is debuting a new gift card service today with a heavy emphasis on an older payment instrument: plastic.

V-Key, a mobile security provider in Singapore, has received a $12 million investment from the Ant Financial Services Group, the Chinese financial services company that operates Alipay.

A week after making Discover the first credit card offered in its mobile bill-pay service, PreCash Inc. has already seen a spike in the use of Evolve Money, which previously accepted only debit cards.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Credit union membership is up in Florida and Alabama, thanks in part to the success of a long-term branding campaign started more than three years ago.

A week after making Discover the first credit card offered in its mobile bill-pay service, PreCash Inc. has already seen a spike in the use of Evolve Money, which previously accepted only debit cards.

Snapchat, a photo-based messaging service, has added a payment capability based on Square Cash, Square Inc.'s person-to-person payment system.