Ottawa, Canada, has joined a growing list of North American cities supporting mobile payments for parking.

BALTIMORE – Horsetail Technologies and Credit Union Journal have partnered to make an extraordinary offer that will result in one credit union receiving a $100,000 Extreme Network Makeover.

Phoenix Managed Networks has secured the services of a Canadian payments company to distribute routers and software for its PaySecure fraud-prevention service, the payment network services provider announced May 15.

A tokenization services vendor has shifted its emphasis from the core to the edge of retailers’ computer systems and is seeking independent sales organizations to promote its product.

Widespread adoption of Near Field Communication technology may take years, but the Smart Card Alliance continues to spread the word as it works to grow merchant and consumer acceptance.

The Isis mobile-payments venture already has signed some major banking companies to its smartphone-based payment system. Its newly announced merchant roster likewise features big-name participants.

Banks are making moves to take a bigger role in shaping worldwide mobile-payments technology standards as momentum in the sector builds.

As PayPal Inc. continues to make announcements about what it believes to be groundbreaking payments developments, the online-payments provider and unit of eBay Inc. has earned a certain measure of respect.

UK firms have sped up their late bill paying processes, according to the latest figures from market watcher Experian.

99Bill Corp. is targeting Chinese small and midsize businesses in its launch of a Square-like smartphone payment card reader, the Beijing-based third-party payments provider announced last week.

BALTIMORE – Horsetail Technologies and Credit Union Journal have partnered to make an extraordinary offer that will result in one credit union receiving a $100,000 Extreme Network Makeover.

EAST WINDSOR, N.J. – McGraw-Hill FCU has rolled out mobile deposits via Mobile My Deposit.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska USA FCU will be one of the first card issuers to sign on as a pilot for Acculynk's PIN debit-based person-to-person offering.

The abrupt end of Scott Thompson's short term as CEO of Yahoo Inc. calls the company's payments plans into question.

ORLANDO–It might be difficult to pick a payments industry topic in which executives working for traditional payment providers and those who formulate strategies for alternative payment companies would share similar views.

ORLANDO–If the annual Card Forum and Expo staged here last week were a car on a family trip, attendees played the roles of restless kids in the backseat asking, “Are we there yet?”

The Federal Trade Commission halted an operation that allegedly lured consumers into spending thousands of dollars for Web sites and advertising by misrepresenting that they could make money by linking the sites to major retailers.

Less than one-third of U.S. consumers have used their phones to make payments, whereas two thirds of consumers in China have, new data show.

One promotion by FAA Credit Union here has proven successful enough to earn a second date as it continues to pursue strategies to ramp up social media.

It's a mistake to assume that a credit union can't get into mobile lending if it doesn't have a smart phone app says John Putman, lending business systems director at CUNA Mutual Group.