BlackBerry is testing whether the money-transfer business will help the smartphone maker keep users hooked on its instant-messaging service.

For the 13th consecutive year, identity theft was the top complaint received by the Federal Trade Commission, followed again by complaints about debt collections.

PreCash has hired Jim Lerdal to be its senior vice president of operations, a new position.

Another digital wallet is coming to the U.S. — but it's taking the scenic route.

Foursquare is adding Visa and MasterCard to its special deals roster, enabling the social media company’s 30 million users to link their credit and debit cards to Foursquare to receive discounts at merchants, according to a report in Ad Age.

Visa is making several moves to demonstrate that it is willing to adopt new payments products on the Visa network. In an interview with PaymentsSource, Matt Dill, head of global business development and emerging products for Visa, provides a look into the card brand's future.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky FCU said it is implementing Alkami’s Online Relationship Builder platform, which the company said allows credit union members to personalize their online banking experience.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. – Visa on Monday announced a deal with Samsung that will allow users of Samsung’s mobile phones to use Visa’s PayPass technology to make payments by swiping their phones at participating merchants.

Amex says it will offer ezeClick to its card members in India as an online payment option that is meant to improve security and speed up the checkout process.

With its MasterPass program, MasterCard's mobile-pay strategy seems to be solidifying. But the details show that payments technology is still very fluid.

The mobile payment technology provider Spindle Inc. announced an agreement with NCR Corp. to resell NCR Silver, the ATM vendor's mobile point of sale system.

Visa Inc. is teaming up with phonemaker Samsung Electronics Co. to provide a financial program to enable mobile handsets to be used like a credit or debit card.

New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) has sent letters to collection agencies statewide warning them against trying to collect on illegal payday loans.

MEDFORD, Ore.-The Financial Brand is advising credit unions to steer away from Google+, the social networking site launched by the search giant in 2011 to compete with Facebook.

Use of P2P payments is increasing, but even more so, so is awareness.

One expert sees 2013 as the year of the digital wallet, and believes credit unions need to get on board with this growing technology.

WASHINGTON – Mountain America CU announced this morning during CUNA’s Government Affairs Conference it has joined with Diebold to test-pilot the company’s ATM interface with tellers.

WASHINGTON – CUNA Mutual Group rolled out a new mobile car-buying app this morning at CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference that will assist credit union members in shopping for and purchasing a vehicle.

Count to three. By the time you've done that, someone in the U.S. has been victimized by identity fraud.

MasterCard Inc. today announced MasterPass, a digital wallet that supports mobile payments at the point of sale and online payments without the need to type a card number each time.