In the world of plastic cards, if a consumer loses one card, every card linked to that account must be canceled. That isn't the case with mobile wallets.

It may be an ironic twist or wise marketing timing, but the number of Near Field Communication announcements in the payments industry seemingly increased quickly last week after it was revealed that Apple's iPhone 5 would not have an NFC chip.

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University FCU partnered with the University’s College of Communication Arts & Sciences and Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab to develop a finance game for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch targeted at university students and other young adults.

Merchant Warehouse, a Boston-based independent sales organization, says its Genius Customer Engagement Platform accepts Apple Passbook, a function the company views as part of a nationwide shift toward mobile payments.

Square announced today that it has closed the Series D financing round that included Starbucks, among other investors.

Ten million households, or one in 12, are unbanked, reports the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in its National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households, using 2011 data.

A new partnership between Boom Financial and the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) aims to make it easier for immigrants to send money abroad and to expand CU membership internationally.

PSCU is partnering with Google to make Google Wallet available to credit unions.

During the Harland Connections conference, Credit Union Journal asked attendees what technology initiatives their CUs were planning to implement in the final three months of 2012 or early 2013.

When First Alliance Credit Union determined its chatting capabilities weren't robust enough for member satisfaction, it began looking for ways to improve those capabilities.

The City of Boston CU is looking into how members' relationships translate into profits in the hopes of moving to relationship-based pricing.

Mounting federal regulations along with "normal" security-related trepidations has led COPOCO Community Credit Union to employ Open Systems Technology (OST) services.

Over the course of the last year, twelve California credit unions have worked together with a common goal of reducing certain technology costs.

In an effort to get one step ahead of online threats, PSCU will host its first-ever "Hackathon" Oct. 19 and 20 with the first prize winners receiving a Royal Caribbean cruise.

It was only seven years ago that Hurricane Katrina forever altered the Gulf Coast and the Crescent City. Now, with Hurricane Isaac having just passed over the region, credit unions are benefiting from lessons learned in testing disaster recovery systems.

Ninety percent of Stanford Federal Credit Union's interactions with its members take place by computers and mobile devices, allowing 20% of its employees to work from outside the office.

It was the combination of effective technology and collective perseverance that scored South Carolina Federal Credit Union's Stephanie Ownby Verint's Innovator of the Year award for branch excellence.

The Casino Group supermarket chain in France is claiming it will open the world's first "completely NFC" supermarket in a popular shopping district of Paris.

Foreclosure filings were reported on 193,508 properties in August, a jump of 1% from July but down 15% from August 2011, according to RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties.

Google says use of its mobile wallet app has more than doubled since it modified Google Wallet to more easily allow consumers to link their credit and debit cards.