Facebook's IPO will be the largest in history. With 845 million active users it has a greater reach than all but a handful of enterprises such as Google, MasterCard and Visa.

SmartVoucher Ltd. last week added a fourth country to its list of South American countries where consumers may use its Ukash vouchers to shop online.

WASHINGTON–With its nonbank supervision program finally under way, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to bring debt collectors and consumer reporting firms under its oversight umbrella.

Hey, Visa and PayPal, pay attention here.

In a move Barclays Bank PLC hopes will make consumers wonder how they ever used to exchange funds with one another, the United Kingdom-based bank is making mobile funds transfers available to all UK bank accountholders through a free software application called Pingit.

Is the competitive pressure from alternative payment rivals getting to Visa Inc. execs?

Independent sales organizations now may offer merchants a security package that combines breach protection, consulting services and software that scans computers for unprotected card data.

SmartyPig LLC is opening an office in India to sell its social media software to the country's financial-services companies.

PayPal Inc., with 106.3 million active users, clearly has no trouble signing up consumer accounts. But it is now partnering with banks to sign up even more.

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio FCU has signed with Vertifi Software to offer its DeposZip Mobile remote deposit capture solution to its members.

As Google Inc. learned in the past week, the security problems with mobile wallets are thorny and complex.

Betting on simplicity over razzle-dazzle digital-wallet features, Buck Inc. is making headway with a mobile e-commerce payment technology it claims goes a long way toward accomplishing what many mobile wallets aim to do.

Industry analysts have called 2012 a possible “breakthrough year” in the payments industry for Near Field Communication technology.

Intuit Inc. has added a new tablet-banking product for banks and credit unions.

Bill Bartmann's sweeping national campaign to clean up the collection industry, a push many in the business consider highly ironic, has gone to new heights with the introduction Tuesday of the Bartmann Ethical Debt Collection Pratices Act (SB1430) in the Oklahoma State Senate.

USAA Federal Savings Bank traditionally has occupied an unusual position that almost requires it to be an early adopter of digital financial services. Its military-heavy customer base always is on the move and often in geographic circumstances that don’t allow multi-channel banking.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – ESL FCU has introduced Intuit’s Tablet Banking for the iPad, making it easier for people to manage their finances from mobile devices.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Genisys CU has contracted with EasCorp FCU’s Vertifi Software to offer its DeposZip Mobile remote deposit capture to its members.

Consumers who caught on fast to the convenience of using their smartphone cameras to deposit checks remotely likely will be among the first to try a similar technology for paying monthly household bills.

PayPal Inc. is spreading its wings even further into the prepaid card market at a time when more underbanked consumers are viewing such products as being favorable to using cash.