VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU has implemented the latest release of the Verint System’s Vovici Enterprise Feedback Management solution.

Visa Inc. may be preparing to debut its ties to Google Inc.’s Google Wallet mobile-payments scheme in London at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, sources suggest.

Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are just starting to rev up their marketing engines for their daily-deal services. Groupon Inc. and LivingSocial are the mainstays for now, but all four companies soon will face competition from PayPal Inc.

Various technology and banking analysts have identified mobile banking as a hot area for new and expanded information-technology investment, with Ovum and Celent, for example, both placing mobile high on their list of bank IT priorities for the next year.

MODESTO, Calif. – Valley First CU has signed with VINtek to implement the company’s electronic lien and title services to manage its automotive titles.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU said yesterday it is discontinuing its mobile banking apps for Android and Blackberry smartphones at the end of this month as it transitions to a new third-party vendor.

Direct-to-carrier billers believe they have a calling, especially among consumers wanting to make secure small-ticket transactions.

The silence is almost deafening.

Mobile and online payments startup Zipmark has secured $2 million in funding from a group of venture capital firms and others, the company announced Dec. 14.

Though the mobile-payments market is still nascent, the early successes seem to be those developed by technology companies and mobile-phone carriers–not banks. A new product from Sequent Software Inc. might level the playing field.

FlexiGroup Ltd. has entered into an agreement to acquire from ACT Merchant Services the Australia, New Zealand and Asia operations of Paymate Pty. Ltd., FlexiGroup announced Dec. 6.

On its face, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s new Office of Corporate Risk Management sounds like a unit dedicated to ensuring banks have a proper risk management system in place.

EMBARRASS, Minn. -- Embarrass Vermillion FCU has selected TRC Interactive to deliver online instruction through its CreditUnionTrainingOnline for its credit union-wide training needs.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Meriwest CU said it signed with VSoft to implement the company’s back counter, teller and ATM remote deposit capture solutions.

Corporate cash hoards hit yet another high in the third quarter, but the image of firms as skinflints is misleading. Corporations have been borrowing, and borrowing from banks, as they have been restocking inventories.

Isis, still almost a year away from launching its mobile-payments application, is partnering with an industry heavyweight to serve as the security guard for its wallet.

Hold the phone! Google Wallet appears to have a security leak.

If the world of mobile and contactless payments moves so fast it seems like a wild ride, MasterCard Worldwide and Lo-Q PLC have targeted the perfect setting.

Next year could be a “transition” year in which consumer deleveraging slows significantly and borrowing improves, spurring credit card market growth.

Could consumers’ fears about crooks intercepting their financial data and spying on their locations dampen adoption of mobile payments?