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Orange continued its push to stay at the forefront of mobile payments in the United Kingdom, expanding its Quick Tap contactless payment system to handsets powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system.

The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index climbed higher in March, marking only the third monthly increase in the past 12 months.

Fair Isaac's (FICO) new chief executive is starting in defense mode, as the credit-score giant looks to regain the reputation and business it has lost in the wake of the financial crisis.

Financial technology startups dot the landscape like grain silos mark the surrounding farmland. In Silicon Prairie, mobile payments, online banking and core banking services are the new cash crop.

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.

NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. – CU Companies has introduced a free mobile application for the Apple iPhone that allows credit unions to deliver mortgage rates, educational information and a location-based ATM finder.

WARMINISTER, Penn. – Freedom CU has introduced CO-OP Financial Services’ My Deposit Mobile service for Android phones.

WYOMISSING, Penn. – Utilities Employees CU said it signed with Jwaala to offer mobile banking and expand its online services.

SmartMetric Inc. came up empty in federal appeals court April 11, but the payments-technology provider plans to continue its fight against three of the major card brands it says stole its patented technology.

Independent sales organizations apparently aren’t content to stand by and let the big tech companies dominate the new market for micromerchant electronic payments.

41st Parameter has raised $13 million in fresh capital to fuel research, development and further expansion.

Marketing and sales-automation provider Vindicia Inc. is trying to further capitalize on the growth of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, with its recent addition of enhanced usage billing to its CashBox platform.

In a messy dispute, USAA Federal Savings Bank and Mitek Systems Inc. have been fighting over a simple issue: who invented mobile remote deposit capture–the ability to deposit a check by snapping an image of it with a phone.

Fifty-six percent of consumers selected "improving my credit score" as the personal finance area in which they need the most help, according to the March Financial Literacy Opinion Index hosted on the homepage of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) Web site.

Yahoo Inc. is on the cusp of reinventing itself, potentially as an important payments provider that could rival not only PayPal Inc. but Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide as well.

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.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Park Community FCU has signed with Vertifi, a CUSO of EasCorp FCU, to offer DeposZip remote deposit capture service to its members.

Visa Inc. has rolled out another point-of-sale fraud-fighting tool for payment card issuers already facing costly changes to block fraud at the checkout level with EMV technology.

The recent spate of resignations from eBay Inc. and its subsidiary PayPal Inc. is only a sign that those entities attract top talent and will continue to do so, according to an industry analyst.