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

FARMINGTON, N.M. – Animas FCU has selected Fiserv’s XP2 account processing solution.

WOODBURY, Minn. – Postal CU has partnered with mFoundry through its relationship with First Data to launch mobile banking to members next month.

VeriFone is making good on its original promise to open up its Square-like mobile card reader, Sail, to developers.

Google Wallet is under increasing pressure — though the mobile wallet has been in consumers' hands for over a year, Google still has fewer issuer partners than its rival Isis, and with the Merchant Customer Exchange wallet on the horizon, Google now faces competition from the very retailers it seeks to attract.

AT&T has agreed to sell Square's smartphone-based card readers in its 1,000 company-owned retail stores.

SCVNGR's LevelUp now offers an app for Windows Phone users that want to use its mobile point of sale payment system.

Consumers are less confident about both the overall U.S. economy and technology spending than a month ago but are more confident than a year ago, according to a new Index.

Adding payment acceptance to a website could be as easy as embedding a YouTube video or sharing a link on Facebook.

Consumers want their bank to provide them their first mobile wallet because of their trust in the institution. But, at least in the UK, no wallet provider has thus far addressed all of consumers' concerns with mobile payments, new research shows.

Apple's iWallet is much anticipated but, due to Apple's notorious secrecy, still very hard to picture. A new patent lends some slight clarity to the company's mobile-payment vision.

CROWN POINT, Ind. – Tech CU has selected Fiserv's XP2 account processing platform.

Isis, the mobile-payment joint venture backed by AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, is on track for a debut in September, following months of delays and a change in strategy last year.

With their "Project Oscar" mobile payment joint venture remaining uncertain because of a regulator's investigations, major European telcos are turning to traditional payment companies to get back in the mobile payments game. MasterCard's new five-year agreement with Everything Everywhere is a case in point.

USA Technologies has added a Web service called QuickConnect, which helps developers and original equipment manufacturers use the vendor's ePort Connect platform for accepting card payments.

MasterCard continued to expand its partnerships with European telcos, announcing an exclusive, five-year agreement with Everything Everywhere to develop mobile and digital payment applications.

Fiserv has hired Ginger Schmeltzer, formerly SunTrust's senior vice president of digital channel management, to be its senior vice president of emerging payments and digital payment solutions, a newly created position.

In Virginia, car title lending is thriving after changes in laws the past two years imposed new regulations on lenders in many areas but allowed them to operate in the commonwealth.

The pace of innovation in mobile payments may slow in light of Apple Inc.'s favorable $1.05 billion verdict in a patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. over mobile phone technology.

The rate at which lenders declare credit card loans uncollectible ticked up at four of the six largest issuers in July from the previous month.