LEXINGTON, Ky. – Members Heritage CU has selected Harland Financial Solutiuons’ UltraData Enterprise Core processing solution.

BELLEVUE, Neb. – SAC FCU, Nebraska’s largest credit union, said has signed to convert to Fiserv’s Acumen core processing system.

Not to be outdone by other card brands or mobile network operators, MasterCard Worldwide and PrePay Solutions plan to launch a Mobile PayPass prepaid account for smartphones in a few months.

DETROIT – A retired auto worker is scheduled to be sentenced next week for tapping Bank of America ATMs for $1.5 million he gambled away at local casinos after a glitch at the banking giant allowed him access to unlimited funds.

Even as Apple's Passbook app portends a mobile-payments world without near-field communication technology, ACI Worldwide is pushing ahead with NFC through an expanded pact with the smart-card technology provider Bell ID.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Numerica CU is one of the first financial institutions to implement Shastic’s Calcubot, the first lead-generation loan calculator designed for Facebook.

It may soon get a lot easier to take payment systems designed for the information superhighway and use them on real-world streets, according to a Canadian company that specializes in parking transactions.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri CU has signed with Geezeo to implement the company’s white label personal financial management tool and management banking platform.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Star One CU, which serves a high-tech field of membership throughout California’s Silicon Valley, will announce this morning the roll-out of its new mobile banking from Tyfone.

As the mobile wallet matures, it's becoming clear that its selling point is not the ability to make a payment.

Seems like every day another company is rolling out a digital wallet. But there's one key difference with Lemon Inc.'s Smarter Wallet —in its current form, it's meant not for payments but for peace of mind.

Fair Isaac Corp. said Thursday that it has been awarded 17 new patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventions related to FICO offerings in predictive analytics (seven patents), credit scoring (two patents) and fraud detection (eight patents).

WATERLOO, Iowa- -- Veridian CU, one of the financial backers of Dwolla, announced this morning it has introduced the start-up payments company’s FiSync money transfers for its members.

FONU2 Inc. is gearing up to launch a prepaid debit card consumers worldwide may use to pay for local services and goods using a Facebook application on their computers or mobile phones when the company rolls out its online buying-and-selling website.

A proposal by regulators to revamp the way banks must measure risk on certain assets is alarming many community bankers, who argue it will raise capital requirements, increase compliance costs and curb lending.

Experian announced its Extended View score at the 7th Annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum this week in San Francisco. It is designed to assess the creditworthiness of consumers with little or no traditional credit history, often referred to as underbanked or underserved consumers.

It may not jolt faster acceptance of Near Field Communication-based payments at the point of sale, but the introduction of other NFC capabilities should at least increase merchant and consumer interest in the technology.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Better Branches Technology has rolled out a mobile indicator that tells members over their smartphones the real-time lobby wait times before they go to the branch so they can better plan their visits.

SAN FRANCISCO–What's the role of banks in the new mobile-payments model?

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Patelco CU said this morning it signed with ThreatMetrix to add the company’s online fraud and malware defense.