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.

Apple has — yet again — left payments out when it designed its newest iPhone, despite numerous indications that it explored using Near Field Communication technology to create a mobile wallet. Apple had many good reasons to choose the course it did.

The PCI Council is likely to benefit from the heightened awareness around ATM security, particularly MasterCard's push for EMV chip-card acceptance at ATMs, as it seeks feedback on its ATM Security guidelines.

International Merchant Solutions has signed a multiyear deal with Phoenix Managed Networks for PhoeniXSentry, a cloud-based network management service and built-in firewall router.

More consumers are using mobile devices to pay for online purchases, but small merchants aren't doing much to accommodate them.

Boom Financial announced this week that it is partnering with the World Council of Credit Unions to expand in emerging economies.

A survey of nearly 1,000 New Zealanders found that most respondents could name one or none of the credit factors that companies are allowed to collect about them.

The medical marijuana market once represented a new opportunity for merchant processors, but it dried up almost overnight when the major U.S. credit card networks more or less banned them from processing such sales — even in states where it is legal.

LATHRUP VILLAGE, Mich. -- Michigan First CU has signed with Millennial Vision Inc. to deploy the company’s electronic document management software system.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Mutual Savings CU to implement the company’s First Line of Defense – Fraud Detection and Loss Prevention Challenge, an online exercise designed to keep staff focused on the latest frauds.

LAKELAND, Fla. – MidFlorida CU has signed with Fiserv to convert is core processing to the company’s Acumen with in-house delivery.

WICHITA, Kan. – Meritrust CU has implemented Financial Management Solutions Inc.’s Teller Management System.

Isis, the mobile-payment venture backed by AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, won't debut by the end of September as planned, extending delays for a service once expected to start by the end of June.

Barclaycard US says it will work with Google to support the Google Wallet mobile payment system.

Each time the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council felt it was ready to establish a written-in-stone requirement for securing mobile payments, the technology — and the fraud committed against it — changed.