Huntington Bancshares Inc. is rewriting its mobile strategy through the hiring of mobile-banking expert Jeff Dennes from USAA Federal Savings Bank.

Mobile-payments company mPayy Inc. has added reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards as an option to fund its accounts, the company announced Oct. 12.

Financial institutions, mobile-phone networks, service providers, payment companies and transaction processors in both developed and emerging markets will be able to offer a wide variety of mobile banking and payments services under a enhanced technology platform Monitise PLC announced Oct. 14.

Mobile access to medical finances is becoming more important for employees — and their banks.

Chartway FCU said yesterday it has implemented the FIS Mobile Banking platform from Fidelity National Information Services.

Chartway FCU said yesterday it has implemented the FIS Mobile Banking platform from Fidelity National Information Services.

Pennsylvania State Employees CU has introduced mobile banking through Firethorn Holdings LLC, a wholly owned unit of Qualcomm Inc.

Cubic Corp. has launched an updated application that enables consumers in one German city to purchase public-transportation tickets using Apple Inc. iPhones, which display purchased tickets as barcodes scanned at turnstiles for entry, the transportation ticketing company announced Oct. 6.

In a ruling that will affect hundreds of credit unions, a federal judge agreed Friday to dismiss a suit by MShift claiming that Intuit Financial Services, formerly Digital Insight Corp., is infringing on its patent for mobile banking.

PayPal Inc. said its new mobile remote deposit capture feature is a hit among its mobile app users.

A global relief organization and a local mobile-phone provider in Haiti recently completed a test of its Mobile Money funds-transfer project in which Haitians affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake used mobile phones to receive payment for work and to make purchases at a local grocery store.

East Japan Railway Co. during the first half of next year plans to offer a mobile fare-payment service for its network supported by mobile network carrier KDDI Corp.

U.S. Bancorp is teaming with Monitise PLC to offer mobile-banking services to the bank’s Visa-branded AccelaPay relodable prepaid payroll card.

National Payments Corp. of India in November reportedly plans to launch a payment system that would enable consumers in that country to transfer funds for free to any account in India held by participating financial institutions using their mobile phones.

Corpus Christi, Texas-based NavyArmy Federal Credit Union has signed with ATM maker Diebold to implement the company’s new mobile banking solution.

SecureKey Technologies Inc. has developed a way to turn any computer into a contactless payment terminal, bringing the improved security of contactless payments to e-commerce — without requiring online merchants to do anything to their systems.

PayPal Inc. is acting more like a bank these days and the addition of a mobile remote-deposit capture feature to its Apple Inc. iPhone application is helping solidify that view, according to one industry observer.

Latham, N.Y.-based Sunmark Federal Credit Union has introduced a mobile banking application that will allow members to conduct financial transactions and to voice opinions about the credit union’s products and services.

Participants in a cross-industry forum to help develop U.S. mobile payments technology are nearing completion of a white paper that aims to identify the significant obstacles and opportunities facing the industry, Richard R. Oliver, executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, told attendees Oct. 5 at SourceMedia’s ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum in Phoenix, Ariz.

Bling Nation Ltd.’s deal with Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC could give them the entree they need to promote the company’s postage-stamp-sized contactless payment sticker across the country.