DES MOINES, Iowa – Financial Plus CU has gone on LKCS’ enhanced electronic statement platform.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU has updated mobile banking apps for iPhone and Android through CapTech.

The Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America has begun using a mobile card reader from VeriFone in its Annual Popcorn Sale.

Walmart's recently disclosed test of mobile checkout technology could whet consumers' appetites for a later and more aggressive rollout of mobile payments.

PayPal has promoted Rohan Mahadevan, who has worked with the online payments company since 2004, to be its new vice president for Asia.

Through local partnerships, Western Union Business Solutions is bringing its business-to-business funds-transfer service to Chile, Cyprus and Jordan, enabling businesses and organizations in all three countries to make international payments faster.

Subprime borrowers are receiving as large a portion of new car loans as they did right before the start of the financial crisis, according to a study by Experian's auto finance research unit.

Vodafone, Telefonica's O2 unit and Everything Everywhere are set to win unconditional European Union approval for a joint venture to create a U.K. mobile-phone payment platform, according to two people familiar with the decision.

The Bitcoin system is preparing to join the many digital payment options that fall back on a prepaid card — but is a plastic card even necessary for e-wallets supported by Bitcoin, PayPal, Amex and others?

Awareness of contactless card payments in the UK has nearly doubled in the past year, resulting in more than a million payments per month, according to research that provides plenty of food for thought for the U.S. and other countries where such cards are available.

An appeals court in Manhattan ruled that a collection agency chasing loans backed by the Education Department misled debtors by telling them their loans were not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

BATH, Me. -- Five County CU selected FairPoint Communication's carrier-grade network to offer video banking technology in the state.

Square has stolen the spotlight — after convincing Starbucks to switch to Square for processing, the mobile-payments vendor gave other merchants the option to accept cards for a flat $275 monthly fee. How can a rival mobile-pay provider compete?

PreCash Inc., which allows the underbanked to make electronic bill payments and other transactions in cash, says it now allows payments to more than 10,000 billers.

PayPal and Square allow their mobile-wallet users to pay by checking in at merchant locations with an app that transmits their photo to the merchant for authentication. With ShopKeep POS, PayPal is showcasing this feature at a New York film festival.

A common criticism of daily-deals providers such as Groupon and LivingSocial is that merchants using those services generally don't always receive return visits or sufficient data to use in designing long-term customer-loyalty plans.

Now's the time for independent sales organizations to start offering mobile-payments options to their merchant customers.

SCVNGR's LevelUp, which announced a charitable-donation option today, is not the first to spot a link between charities and mobile spending and rewards. Shopkick's mobile rewards app began life in 2009 as CauseWorld, which had a strong focus on donating any rewards earned to charities.

DeviceFidelity is relaunching its Moneto mobile wallet, and this time around it lets users transfer funds to other Moneto users' prepaid accounts.

Many companies are seeking fresh ways to use mobile phones to add functionality and security at ATMs.