PHILADELPHIA – Police & Fire FCU has introduced electronic banking over the Kindle Fire tablet via a new application developed by CU Mobile Apps, an offering of Member Service Solutions LLC.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley this week unveiled an initiative designed to prevent foreclosures by increasing the number of loan modification specialists available to distressed borrowers.

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.

ALPENA, Mich. – Alpena Alcona Area CU has chosen MoneyDesktop’s PFM (personal financial management) to provide a more engaging online banking experience to its members.

EDISON, N.J. – Pinnacle FCU said it has implemented Ongoing Operations’ Data Vaulting, a new plan for protecting information which sends data offsite where it can be protected from hardware failures, theft and other threats.

Vantiv Inc. has launched a mobile check deposit service for smartphones, the Cincinnati-based processor announced April 25.

CINCINNATI – Vantiv, which provides card processing for more than 800 credit unions, announced the launch of a mobile check deposit service for smartphones this morning.

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.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Unity One CU has implemented MShift’s new mobile deposits capability through Ensenta Technology.

Large corporations increasingly need better mobile channels to collect small payments on the fly from customers in the field.

For many banks, deciding what new mobile-banking features to offer is a matter of following competitors’ moves or waiting to see what technology their core banking vendor begins to offer.

Guardian Analytics has rolled out fraud-detection software for mobile-banking services called FraudMAP Mobile.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has launched a mobile image deposit application for its treasury services division.

The town council in Selma N.C. joined a growing list of local governments hiring debt collection agencies to pursue delinquencies owed by residents.

The way Norse Corp. CEO Sam Glines sees it, his card data security-software company has connected a major dot in offering a full payment-gateway service.

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority this fall plans to pilot a mobile ticket-buying system for its rail commuters designed to cut cash-handling costs and generate useful data about riders' habits.

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.

ROCKY HILL, Conn. – Nutmeg State FCU said it has launched mobile deposit capability by Ensenta over its MShift mobile banking platform.

KeyBank recently expanded its mobile-banking offerings with an array of apps mFoundry Inc. developed, and the bank is weighing whether to add new mobile-payment options next.

As banks, card issuers, processors, terminal makers and others involved in electronic transactions are well aware, many new software engineers would rather work for Google Inc. or a hot new start-up than enter the payments or banking industries.