ACI Worldwide has launched ACI Enterprise Banker 7.6, which will be fully enabled for mobile banking.

South Africa’s First National Bank Ltd on Sept. 7 unveiled what it says is the nation’s first service enabling its customers to send funds to one another using only a cell phone number.

Having a smartphone equipped for mobile payments with multiple payment options could weaken the impact of card brands, according to a new report from Morningstar Inc.

Banks that want to reel in retail customers who have gravitated to others' credit cards and card issuers eager to steal competitors' customers have a new weapon: technology from Mitek that lets customers transfer card balances by simply taking a picture of their credit card bill with their mobile device.

Zimbabwe’s Econet Wireless Ltd. is developing a mobile-payment system designed for small-ticket transactions in that country, the telecommunication company announced Sept. 6.

To help meet rising consumer demand in China, payment-services provider 99Bill Corp. has upgraded its 99Bill+ payment platform to additionally support payments initiated with tablets and smartphones.

VeriFone Systems Inc. continues to show positive quarterly results in terms of revenue and net income, and company executives expect the trend to continue as contactless mobile payments grow worldwide and EMV chip-and-PIN takes hold in the United States.

Sallie Mae announced on Tuesday that it had introduced mobile banking to certain Apple products, allowing customers to manage their savings, money market and no-fee student checking accounts remotely. The student lender has wasted no time rolling out mobile check deposit, and lets customers deposit checks not only by snapping a photo with their iPhone or iPad, but also by using their "dorm room scanner."

Joining a growing list of similar companies trying to move more cash payments to cards, Payment Data Systems Inc. will launch iRemotePay next month to meet growing merchant demand for a payment-acceptance option to use away from their actual stores or if they do business in outdoor markets.

Many institutions are considering mobile phone-enabled check capture, a popular way of depositing checks in which consumers use their smartphones to take photos of checks to deposit them remotely.

Steve Geringer is offering a second time at bat for mobile payment technology that struck out: sound innovation that didn't match business realities.

United Kingdom consumers are becoming more comfortable using contactless payments as banks such as Barclays PLC push the technology. But users of contactless payment want to see more retailer acceptance of the technology, new survey data suggest.

More than half of U.S. consumers use at least two credit or debit cards each month for online purchases, and many are wary of the potential for fraud associated with online banking, a study security-software vendor AVG Technologies USA Inc. released Sept. 1 suggests.

Adaptive Payments is entering an already crowded mobile-payment acceptance market with a device that enables merchants to accept PIN-debit transactions on smartphones using a method similar to the company’s e-commerce operation.

Germany’s largest rail system soon will finish a three-year mobile-payments test at its stations and officially offer all passengers the ability to pay for tickets using mobile phones.

In a move exemplifying efforts to move more cash and check payments to credit and debit cards, a national social network of babysitters and parents called SitterPals.com has signed up to use Square Inc.’s service to accept credit card payments for their services, the company announced Aug. 31.

Fiserv has re-branded its Mobile Money and the BankAnywhere mobile-banking products it gained when it acquired Mobile Commerce Ltd. re-naming all the programs Mobiliti.

In announcing during the past week a deal to provide terminals capable of accepting mobile payments at hypermarkets in the Czech Republic and the acquisition of a terminal-servicing company in Italy, Ingenico SA flexed its muscles in the wake of the recent acquisition by VeriFone Systems Inc. of most of Hypercom Corp.’s non-U.S. assets, an industry analyst says.

U.S. Bancorp, one of the first financial institutions to offer mobile fraud alerts to credit card customers three years ago, has expanded its alert program to ATM and debit card holders.

The wireless carriers involved in mobile-payments venture Isis reportedly plan to invest more than $100 million into the project.