BALTIMORE – Johns Hopkins FCU has agreed to add MoneyDesktop’s personal financial management platform to its online banking system.

LOS ANGELES – First City CU has signed with VSoft Corp. to implement the company’s image exchange and settlement solutions, including its inclearings, returns and archive services.

Voice biometrics has had its share of starts and stops as a fraud-prevention and personal authentication tool in the past decade. Experts who note a person’s voice has more than 100 unique characteristics compared with only 40 for a fingerprint see the added value in voice biometrics as defense for card-data security.

Romantic hopefuls lacking a checking account or a credit or debit card soon may have another option to pay for online dating services.

The dollar volume of online fraud rose last year, but actual incidents of fraud dropped, according to a report released Jan. 24 by CyberSource Corp., a unit of Visa Inc.

Mortgage and home equity lines of credit delinquencies are predicted to rise, according to bank risk executives polled by the Professional Risk Managers' International Association, in a survey sponsored by FICO.

Eyeing the growing Asian online retail market, Hong Kong-based online and mobile-payment services provider AsiaPay Ltd. has launched a debit-based payment service for the Asia Pacific region.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is working with a unit of Xerox Corp. to add contactless-payment acceptance at public-transit turnstiles.

The dollar volume of online fraud rose last year, but actual incidents of fraud dropped, according to a report released Jan. 24 by CyberSource Corp., a unit of Visa Inc.

Alipay has launched a payment application for the Windows Phone as part of a larger measure to increase mobile access to its services, the online and mobile-payment platform under the China-based Alibaba Group announced earlier this month.

A new report from Experian points to improvement in business performance in most categories in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 compared with the previous quarter.

PayPal Inc., which has been testing a point-of-sale payment system with Home Depot, reportedly is testing the same system with Office Depot Inc.

The city of Franklin, Tennessee wants to hire a collection agency to help chase outstanding fines and court costs.

Relentless organized crime rings are launching increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks to steal online consumers’ personal or payment card data. And these attacks come as no surprise to those tasked with preventing fraud because “organized” suggests plenty of collaboration or partnerships to plot crimes.

YORK, Penn. – First Capital FCU is going mobile with the help of a QR code.

An alternative payments company that lets users make electronic payments in cash is planning to quickly expand its user base and merchant clients with the addition of a mobile channel.

Scott Lang wants folks using NACHA's automated clearinghouse network to watch their language, particularly when discussing the actual service.

Releases of allowances for bad credit card loans continued to plump banks' bottom lines in recent earnings reports, but loss rates look set to bounce off record lows in the first quarter.

Scott Thompson's abrupt departure as PayPal's president leaves PayPal in the hands of a team of competent executives, but it also raises the question of who among them, if any, will be tapped to fill his role.

City Bank is upgrading its mobile-banking capabilities to compete with larger banks, always a concern for smaller institutions. At the same time, the $1.9 billion-asset bank, which serves a region surrounding Lubbock, Texas, also is experimenting with security applications for mobile devices that shield non-mobile channels.