With an eye toward making sure more small and medium-size merchants are aware of the need to comply with the Payment Card Industry data security standards, Dallas-based acquirer SignaPay will utilize ControlScan services.

SAN DIEGO – Mission FCU has implemented Shastic’s social loan calculator for Facebook, known as Calcubot.

An estimated two in three credit union executives view loan growth as the critical business issue facing their industry in 2013, according to a survey from TransUnion.

The smaller debit networks are ready to join the larger networks in supporting Discover's technology to meet federal rules on routing EMV debit transactions, but they still await clarity from Visa and MasterCard.

NCR is launching NCR Aloha Mobile, which allows restaurants to deploy tableside mobile systems for handling meal orders and payments.

Plastiq's service asks consumers to pick up the cost of card acceptance. It presents a service fee that is added to the transaction amount, much like sales tax is typically added at the point of sale.

Israeli startup MyCheck is launching its mobile payment app in New York City at the end of April, expanding its model of allowing consumers to pay tabs with a smartphone instead of waiting for servers to bring the check.

For the two-year-old LevelUp, the national expansion of a pilot the mobile-payment provider ran with the 16-year-old processor Heartland Payment Systems is nothing short of a godsend.

Mobile network operator Orange is working with a music promoter and outdoor advertising company to establish Near Field Communication posters that enable fans to purchase it digitally from their mobile phones.

Bitcoin payment processor BitPay Inc. today announced its global processing volume for the month of March will exceed $2 million, a milestone for the company. BitPay is also reducing its fees.

Starbucks Corp., the world’s largest coffee-shop operator, last week issued an online coupon though Groupon Inc. in a bid to bring new customers into its U.S. and Canadian stores.

Barnes & Noble's Nook Media unit is partnering with mobile payment provider Fortumo to allow app developers to sell digital content in the Nook Store, which provides digital content for Nook tablets.

Even as debit networks and other participants finally get on the same page for EMV chip-card acceptance, the U.S. is still a long way off from widespread consumer adoption of EMV cards.

When remittance company Xoom decided to not withdraw money from its customers' bank accounts until the funds reach the recipient, it was betting the added goodwill from users would outweigh the added risk of fraud.

LIVE OAK, Texas – Randolph-Brooks FCU has installed Andera’s oFlows for online account opening and lending.

Virtual currencies have finally garnered enough of a following to make the U.S. government react. Bitcoin's a big focus, but even companies like Facebook and Amazon.com may have to take FinCEN's new rules into account.

Mobile marketing technology provider Mobivity Holdings Corp. and electronic check company CheckAlt are partnering to develop mobile check acceptance for merchants, as well as other mobile payments technology.