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.

DULUTH, Ga. – NCR said this morning it has introduced new ATM software that will allow consumers to withdraw cash using their smartphones.

The emergence of "big data" and the ability for CUs to mine aggregate data beyond their own four walls is one of the major technology trends that will begin to materialize in the next six months.

Within the next ten years it is projected that the mobile phone will be the dominant payment method.

Banks and credit card issuers don't have a lot of followers on social media relative to their peers in other industries.

COLORADO SPRINGS – Ent FCU has introduced free smart phone applications that let members pay bills and manage spending over their iPhone and Android devices.

Mobile-payments processor Rev Worldwide is offering merchants in emerging markets a way to accept payments without a bank account.

Monitise PLC has cleared the necessary regulatory hurdles to complete its acquisition of Clairmail Inc. officially on June 26, thus boosting the mobile-payment technology provider’s U.S. presence.

Retailers, not banks or phone makers, are the driving force behind many mobile payments systems. Here are the biggest influencers.

Easycash Loyalty Solutions GmbH has signed an agreement to provide software for electronic payments in the mobile hand-held terminals of taxis in Belgium.

Sprint Nextel is planning its own mobile wallet that may compete with the one it offers through Google Inc., according to a news report.

Facebook's latest payment announcement, which focuses sharply on mobile devices, shows how the company draws inspiration from the industry's success stories — and signals where the payments industry as a whole might be heading.

An estimated 2.5 million point of sale terminals equipped to read Near Field Communication chips were shipped worldwide last year, double the prior year's figure, according to research from Berg Insight.