ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Denali Alaskan FCU has installed Silver Peak Systems’ Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture software, which has been tested and qualified with Dell EqualLogic replication.

EL PASO, Texas – GECU is requiring its online banking users to change their online account passwords to meet federal requirements.

MONETT, Mo. – Jack Henry & Associates is launching a commercial banking app for Apple’s iPad.

Couch potatoes around the U.S. may like what they are hearing from PayPal Inc. regarding the alternative payments company’s latest venture–paying for products from a PayPal account as they are advertised on television.

SAN FRANCISCO–Cash isn't just some crude means used by the unbanked; affluent bank customers use it as well. To encourage spending among banked consumers, PayPal Inc. is expanding the ways consumers can fund their accounts with bills and coins.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Andera, Inc. this morning unveiled its next-generation oFlows Platform it claims is the first system that eliminates all paper documents from the account opening processes at credit unions and banks

Bethpage (N.Y.) Federal Credit Union says an employee accidentally exposed personal information from 86,000 of its members’ Visa debit card accounts on the Internet, the issuer announced June 12.

Though last week’s announced breach of 6.5 million LinkedIn Corp. passwords may not have sent immediate shockwaves through the payments industry, data-security vendors warn that cybercrooks tend to have payment card and personal data targets in mind once they steal social network passwords.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv announced the roll-out of Central Source Capture, a web-based, end-to-end check capture and processing solution.

Apple Inc.'s failure to include a mobile-payments play in its latest batch of new technology has reignited the discussion of whether Near Field Communication's role in developing a mobile-payments ecosystem has been overhyped.

Taking advantage of the growing popularity of smartphones on college campuses, The CBORD Group now wants to help students do their laundry.

Using someone’s characteristics or traits as an authentication tool has long been a successful method for screening access to highly secure government or corporate locations. But could the use of similar biometrics, considered by many to be a nearly fool-proof security method, ever find a significant–and lasting–presence in the payments industry?

SAN FRANCISCO–Even at a conference called the Mobile Banking and Commerce Summit, mobile payments can be a hard sell to some in attendance.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is probing whether the country's largest banks are party to discriminatory car loans, according to industry participants and attorneys.

To encourage cross-sales and improve customers' spending, PNC Financial Services Group has spent the past two years making its credit cards look like a seamless element of its Virtual Wallet account instead of a late addition.

LAKELAND, Fla. – MIDFLORIDA CU said this morning it contracted with Western Union to offer its members global money-transfer and expedited bill payment services across its 30 branches, the third billion-dollar plus credit union to sign with Western Union in the past two weeks.

Apple Inc. is moving into the mobile wallet arena with a new app to consolidate passes, store cards and movie tickets.

Photo-clipping social network Pinterest may be the next step for banks and payment companies seeking to add a visual kick to their mobile, tablet and online marketing strategies.

Last week, ATM vendors lashed out over the payment card industry’s “War on Cash” (see story). Are they now retaliating with their own “war on cards?”

Ent Federal Credit Union in Colorado Springs, Colo., has introduced free smart phone applications that enable members to pay bills and manage spending using their iPhone and Android mobile devices.