SHELTON, Conn. – Mutual Security CU, with $250 million in assets, has signed with Vertifi Software to offer its members DeposZip mobile remote deposit capture service.

If Apple Inc. doesn’t include Near Field Communication technology in its next generation of iPhone this fall, the company sure has a stockpile of NFC patents to use at a later date.

General Electric Co. is enabling buyers of its electric-vehicle charger to offer PayPal as a payment option when their customers charge their vehicles.

Merchants and card issuers weighing the cost of investing in Near Field Communication technology have a lot riding on the success or failure of the Isis mobile-payments test set to launch soon.

PASADENA, Calif. – Wescom Central CU has signed with Vertifi Software to offer its members DeposZip mobile remote deposit capture service.

Commuters on New York’s busy Metro-North Railroad won’t have to wait in line to buy train tickets if a mobile-ticketing test taking place this summer proves to be successful for the conductors who check thousands of tickets a day.

LevelUp is eliminating one of the fees merchants pay to accept cards through its mobile-payment system, which uses QR codes to access pre-enrolled debit or credit cards when shopping.

Concerned over what amounts to milliseconds, London Underground operators say Near Field Communication-enabled smartphones don’t complete transactions fast enough for its commuters going through ticket turnstiles.

Barb Pacheco has mobile-payment fatigue.

New Jersey and Pennsylvania commuters now may use American Express Co.’s ExpressPay contactless cards to pay for rides on the Port Authority Transit Corp. Speedline rapid-transit system or to park in terminal garages.

The Olympics has long been a showcase for sponsor Visa Inc., but the card brand has much more at stake than usual at the 2012 London Olympics because of the mobile-payment initiative it plans to undertake during the event later this month.

A France-based firm that certifies handsets for Near Field Communication payment applications is betting heavily on the technology becoming the dominant mobile-payment standard.

Square Inc. appears to have international growth on its agenda.

Credit card debt nationally fell 8% to $5,576 since the beginning of the year, according to CreditKarma.com's U.S. Credit Score Climate Report for June.

If crooks find it too difficult to penetrate fraud-prevention layers protecting online merchants, corporations or bank accounts, they revert to “old-fashioned” fraud methods aimed at easier targets.

For bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Apple users, Google might be fined a record $22.5 million, the largest ever from the Federal Trade Commission.

Banks should consider developing their own mobile wallets before mobile-network operators or other nonbank wallet developers lock down the technology and garner most of the consumer attention, analysts and financial advisors generally agree.

If crooks find it too difficult to penetrate fraud-prevention layers protecting online merchants, corporations or bank accounts, they revert to “old-fashioned” fraud methods aimed at easier targets.

LINDEN, N.J. – Integrated Media Management yesterday said users of its TotaleAtlasWeb automation technology can now offer electronic signatures using Adobe’s EchoSign.

Architects of the emerging mobile-payments industry may not have bargained on potentially significant regulations some legal experts are envisioning for it.