Versafe doesn't trust consumers to take the necessary precautions to protect their devices. So the company built a fraud protection layer within its banking application to take matters out of users' hands.

Card marketing and technology company Dynamics launched a new game-based rewards system that card issuers can use with traditional plastic cards, with Key Bank among the first issuers to offer the program to consumers.

Core Innovation Capital, the investment partner of the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), has made an investment in Wipit Inc., a mobile payments company focused on unbanked consumers.

HealthcarePays (HCP), a member-owned payment network, has partnered with technology developer StoneEagle to sell an electronic payments system.

DoubleBeam is using electronic checks in its mobile payment system to cut merchants' costs on interchange.

Bank technology vendor Yodlee has a new mobile and Web app called Tandem that allows consumers to manage their personal relationships and the financial obligations that go along with those relationships.

As more financial institutions and other companies turn to cloud-based services to maintain customer contact centers, Echopass Corp. says it has strengthened its position to assure data handled in those centers remains secure.

The Societe de transport de Montreal (STM) is testing a loyalty program that ties user preferences and special offers to transit payment cards, a move that's also designed to shift rider volume from peak times.

MasterCard Inc. and a major wireless carrier in the Netherlands will join three Dutch banks in reviving a Near Field Communication-based mobile payment test that was nearly three years in the making.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Pikes Peak CU has signed with CheckAlt, iParse and CU Wireless as its providers for mobile deposit capture.

BOULDER, Colo. – Premier Members CU has deployed Integrated Media Management’s Document Exchange, its cloud-based eSignature solution.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Piedmont Advantage CU has broadly expanded its relationship with CO-OP Financial Services, adding mobile services, and debit and credit processing from the company.

WASHINGTON – House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling told credit union executives during NAFCU’s Congressional Caucus he wants to accelerate reform of the secondary mortgage market with the phase down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the next five-to-seven years and the elimination of the federal guarantee on mortgages they buy.

WASHINGTON – Ginnie Mae this week presented itself to credit unions as an additional way to sell their mortgages on the secondary market, with a new conduit it is issuing with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.

PayWith's digital wallet can allow any merchant that accepts MasterCard to also accept mobile payments without buying new hardware.

The 12 Federal Reserve district banks warned of mounting threats to the U.S. payment system such as fraud, and called for streamlining transactions from the point of payment to the point of receipt.

U.S. Bancorp has added Visa's share to its own in the supply chain processing network joint venture, Syncada.

Many mobile commerce systems are built on the premise that we need something simpler than typing a complex password on a small screen. With the iPhone 5S, Apple unveiled its own solution: a fingerprint scanner.

The digital payments initiative clearXchange is run by three banks that make up more than 50% of the online banking market in the U.S., but it still has a lot of work cut out for it.

SavedPlus has launched a platform that encourages consumers to save a small amount of money every time they make a payment.