The nation’s three largest issuers may not be giving much slack on credit card lines, but some midsize lenders are.

HOUSTON – Firstmark CU has purchased Experian’s QAS Pro and QAS Batch to improve overall address data quality within the credit union.

It slices, it dices. It accepts checks, electronic payments and plastic cards (by both camera and by swipe).

In an attempt to get more merchants in the United Kingdom to upgrade their websites to accept mobile browsers, thus accepting payments from mobile devices, Google Inc. has launched the GetMobile, or GetMo, initiative.

LifeLock Inc. is betting that its acquisition of ID Analytics Inc., which closed March 14, will help it better market its services to retail banks.

Figuring out where to invest technology dollars isn’t easy, even in good economic times. While collection agencies and lenders still don’t have the financial resources to spend on technology that they had before 2008, the good news is they have more money available than in the past several years.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Fort Worth Community CU has signed with GoBankingRates.com to feature the company’s CareFree Checking campaign on the credit union’s website.

NORWICH, Conn. – CorePlus FCU has signed with eDOC Innovations to implement its CheckLogic document imaging system.

United Kingdom-based payment processor Streamline has added more speed to its service through new gateway software for its customers.

A new product from vendor Norse Corp. hopes to choke off online card fraud before it becomes a transaction–and before competing services from the card networks can kick in.

TAMPA, Fla. – Florida’s biggest credit union, Suncoast Schools FCU, said this afternoon it signed with Fiserv to convert its data processing to the company’s Acumen system, the second big credit union win for Fiserv in as many weeks.

BOCA RATON, FLA.–SunTrust Banks Inc. plans to unveil digital deposit technology by this fall as part of its efforts to upgrade the systems its checking customers use, according to an executive from the financial institution.

“Let no telco be left behind.”

More consumers are using smartphones to pay bills and conduct other financial transactions, but a good portion worried about security are staying away, suggests a March 14 Federal Reserve Board study of mobile banking and mobile payments.

With an uptick in delinquencies, TransUnion LLC's Credit Risk Index is up 2.3% to 123.36 in the fourth quarter of 2011, the first increase since the fourth quarter of 2009.

As the payments landscape evolves to include more digital options such as Near Field Communication-driven contactless payments, the American Bankers Association has formed a task force to monitor and advocate for security, bank involvement and interoperability.

Until the mid 1980s, most fraud went undiagnosed or misreported. The debate today seems to be whether the increasing digital landscape ends up increasing or decreasing fraud overall.

RTN Federal Credit Union plans to provide its members a comprehensive suite of mobile-wallet services and mobile financial services powered by Tyfone Inc.’s next generation mobile-banking service.

An internal review by JPMorgan Chase & Co. identified procedural issues related to collections, but the issuer on March 13 defended the overall integrity of its recordkeeping.

As borrower delinquencies rose, TransUnion LLC's Credit Risk Index increased 2.3%, to 123.36 in last year’s fourth quarter from the previous quarter.