When French mobile-network provider Orange hooked up with Barclaycard to offer Quick Tap mobile payment technology in the United Kingdom last spring, it had only one downside — a lack of handsets capable of using the new technology.

Credit Union Journal asked attendees at the recent NAFCU Technology & Security Conference here, "Where is your credit union investing its technology dollars in 2012?

REALTORS FCU may have its head in the cloud, but it knows how to grow members: the credit union keeps at least one foot on the ground.

As credit unions continue to battle fraud across a variety of channels, Credit Union Journal compiled this list of anti-fraud tools and terms.

In the headfirst rush into digital branding and social media strategies some credit union leaders are getting into trouble by not taking a strategic approach, according to a new study by the Filene Research Institute.

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.

Despite a loss of $1.8 million last year and an increase in loan charge-offs–after launching a credit union for Realtors during the mortgage crisis and a CEO shake-up–REALTORS FCU is here to stay.

Looking to create a way to digitize more payments? Why not hold a contest?

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.