Seeing a major opportunity in the U.S. market, Monitise PLC and Clairmail Inc. on March 26 announced a merger deal in which they will cross-pollinate and cross-sell each other's technology in their respective markets.

As new card-fraud controls emerge, even cards used to purchase cocktails aboard airplanes are getting closer scrutiny.

If PayPal Inc. strikes with a new payment application, it stands to reason Square Inc. would respond with a new twist on its mobile-payment service.

Unobtrusive until now, a set of unrelated security requirements is about to become pretty unpopular, and costly.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a final report setting forth best practices for businesses to protect the privacy of U.S. consumers and give them greater control over the collection and use of their personal data.

Monitise is buying Clairmail, a provider of mobile banking and payments technology, the London-based company announced March 26.

Online members like the convenience of account-to-account (A2A) transfers. Bellco Credit Union here likes A2A transfers because they reveal where members bank.

BrightStar Credit Union have stopped calling repossession agents to recover cars with defaulted loans, opting for a cloud-based system that manages the entire recovery and remarketing process.

IT compliance is not a burden for $150-million Coosa Valley Credit Union.

Mutual Security Credit Union was loath to spend approximately eighty hours writing Bank Secrecy Act documents from scratch, instead they 'bought' another institution's social media policies.

Big banks are playing the PFM game to steal business from Credit Unions.

CUNA Mutual announced last week it is partnering with Fiserv to make mobile lending technology available to credit unions.

A recent acquisition is enabling Trustwave to add malicious-software detection to the data-security scans the company performs to check compliance with Payment Card Industry data security standards.

SEAFORD, Del. – Sussex County FCU is the first U.S. financial institution to install NCR’s new virtual teller ATMs, APTRA Interactive Teller, which gives members the choice of either self-service or an interactive, live audio and visual experience, NCR announced this morning.

AUSTIN, Texas – Greater Texas FCU has chosen Malauzai Software’s mobile deposit capture solution, which is being marketed to credit unions by Catalyst Corporate FCU.

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.

One in three U.S. adults is interested in mobile and Near Field Communication-based payments, new data suggest.

Iovation Inc. considers protecting online merchants from hackers looking to steal payment card data a top priority, but the security vendor also can boast of some crime-solving skills.

Credit card issuers' account charge-off rates, already exceptionally low, remain on track to hit bottom later this year.

As traditional and emerging payment providers scrap over many aspects of the mobile-payments infrastructure being built in the U.S., an overriding concern for consumers and industry leaders for emerging payments of all types continues to be security.