Small payments companies can't compete with the marketing budgets of PayPal and Google, so many have started selling their products to other startups.

Who exactly are the micromerchants Square Inc. and its rivals are going after?

Apple isn't the only game in town. Neither is Google. To allow mobile payments across all smartphone types, companies such as ZooZ encourage developers to use HTML5, the latest version of the HTML markup language.

ISHPEMING, Mich. – Ishpeming Community FCU has signed with Complete Data Products to implement the company’s CDP Websign e-signature solution.

YPSILANTI, Mich. – Community Driven CU has converted its core processing to CU*Answers’ CU*Base system.

Analysts anticipate stable earnings in the year ahead for large-cap banks, despite fears over Europe that have cut into share prices. Analysts have also penciled in strong earnings growth for 2013 and 2014, though they've trimmed expectations for companies like JPMorgan, B of A and Citi.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania State Employees CU and Vertifi Software today launched two new mobile banking applications for the tablet devices the Kindle Fire and the Android.

Speculating about the role Apple Inc. ultimately will seek to play in payments has become a significant spectator sport for industry analysts.

How long can a good thing last? Write-offs of credit card loans already have plunged below levels issuers consider sustainable. Continued improvement in delinquencies points to a further dip in loss rates in the months ahead.

So what does PayPal Inc. do for an encore?

Of the independent sales organizations and agents ready to commit to mobile payments, many are facing information overload and don’t know where to begin. The mobile market is still in its infancy, and everyone from technology companies to processors are flooding it with innovation and ideas that may or may not take hold.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Redstone FCU announced this morning its Right Choice Money Services for the underserved unit has signed with Western Union to offer the company’s global money transfer and online money transfer services through branches in Alabama.

Canada has a head start on the U.S. in adopting contactless payments. And as tap-and-pay technology spreads, the use of cash for routine transactions is on track to decline sharply within five years, a new study contends.

Tokenizing payment information and sending the data to the cloud can solve many issues for companies that accept payments, as long as the companies trust the tokenization provider.

In a scary new mobile-banking fraud scheme, criminals are tricking mobile network operators banks into swapping out the SIM cards in customers' mobile phones and using illegally obtained data to drain a victim's funds from bank accounts.

First Commonwealth Financial Corp., of Indiana, Pa., thought it had done a pretty good job.

SecureKey Sees Investment Capital As A Boost For Online And Mobile Software Rollouts

WATERLOO, Iowa – Veridian CU announced this morning it signed with Western Union to offer members global money-transfer and expedited bill payment services across all of the $2.2 billion credit union’s 26 Iowa branches.

Thieves know: there's money in credit cards. Credit card numbers are still the hottest items stolen in data breaches, far surpassing debit card numbers and Social Security numbers, according to data from Javelin Strategy & Research.

Merchants have never before had so many options for accepting cards, but a stubborn core that deals only in cash may never change its ways.