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.

Today, many gas stations add a fee when motorists pay for fuel with a plastic card. Royal Dutch Shell PLC is ramping up promotion on an alternative: pay with the decoupled debit card it introduced in 2009 and save two cents a gallon.

Today’s modern payment systems have their genesis in a number of older ventures that plied everything from the Web to biometrics to enable digital commerce. Some are gone, and some have evolved unrecognizably into their current form. Here’s a look.

Until recently, the card network generally prohibited its retail partners from offering special deals to customers that paid with a specific bank's credit or debit card. But Visa quietly lifted the ban on Feb. 1, paving the way for retailers to cut deals with card issuers, according to Visa group president of the Americas William Sheedy.

Visa Inc. is providing payment technology developers and mobile network operators with a clearer path to the Visa network.