MOLINE, Ill. – DHCU Community has contracted with Datamyx to use its “In the Market” data mining program.

Each day, the payments industry receives signals that consumers are happier using a contactless card system to pay transit fares than they are using the cards in stores.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Western Union this afternoon announced the release of an enhancement to its Speedpay electronic bill payment service that allows billers to receive electronic bills through smartphones and mobile devices and consumers to pay their bills directly from their mobile devices with just one click.

Turning a phone into a credit card reader is no longer anything special. Square, facing increasing competition from bigger rivals, is adding features to its small plastic card reader to make it a more fleshed-out product for merchants.

A Denver-based start-up that began by offering Facebook credits as rewards is adding a proprietary prepaid card to create another redemption option and to help expand the program's marketing potential.

Somehow, the developers of O2's mobile wallet found a small village in Wales that did not have even one cash machine available for its 11,000 residents. O2 gave the village a "money makeover."

BILOXI, Miss. – Keesler FCU has signed with Vertifi Software to offer DeposZip Mobile remote deposit capture service to members.

HOUSTON – Plus4 CU has signed with Corelation to use the company’s KeyStone core processing system.

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).