A new task force formed by several government agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), will work to combat scams aimed at homeowners seeking to apply for the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).

PROVO, Utah – MoneyDesktop, a personal financial management solution, has teamed up with Share One, Inc., a technology CUSO out of Memphis, Tenn., integrating the MoneyDesktop offering into Share One’s online banking platform.

MFoundry Inc. has received $18 million in growth capital, the mobile banking technology provider announced Dec. 5.

Debtors in today’s lukewarm economy are not always as they appear on paper.

More banks and credit unions are considering getting back into credit card issuing after selling their portfolios over the past four to seven years, but their reasons for doing so vary, notes Tim Kolk, owner of TRK Advisors, a Peterborough, N.H.-based provider of portfolio-consulting services.

NEW ORLEANS – Riverland CU has signed with Geezeo to install the company’s personal financial management and web-based marketing platform.

MADISON, Wis. – Summit CU has installed IBT’s CUBS Credit Union Branch Capture forward presentments technology to connect its 24 branches with the main office of the $1.7-billion credit union.

An agreement between Vodafone Italia and CartaSi SpA will result in what the companies call one of the first prepaid debit cards in Italy to support both online and contactless in-store payments through a smartphone, Vodafone announced Dec. 1.

Tampa Bay Lightning season ticketholders are getting discounts at concession and souvenir stands at home games when they wear a team souvenir hockey jersey embedded with a radio-frequency identification chip in its sleeve.

The Salvation Army says it is too soon to know how effective Square Inc.’s mobile payment card reader might be in securing donations at its bell-ringer locations.

The average U.S. consumer credit card charge-off rate declined again in October as more consumers met their monthly payment-due dates and the delinquency rate on late payments held steady, according to the latest data from Moody’s Investors Service.

MIDLAND, Texas – My Community CU has signed with MoneyDesktop to install the company’s personal financial management solutions through online banking.

GERMANTOWN, Md. – Montgomery County Employees FCU has introduced EZ Deposit, a remote deposit function provided by Intuit Financial Services.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU has rolled out Guided Selling, a new platform for online merchandising of financial products by Leadfusion, which the former Boeing Employees CU helped develop.

Dwolla Corp. is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its national rollout by permanently waiving its transaction fee for small-ticket purchases and funds transfers.

MasterCard Worldwide and mFoundry Inc. are developing an application that will combine mFoundry’s mobile-banking software with MasterCard’s PayPass contactless-chip functionality, the companies announced Dec. 1.

China UnionPay has enabled more than 3.8 million merchants to accept Near Field Communication-based payments as part of a push to expand mobile-payments acceptance in China, a spokesperson for the card organization tells PaymentsSource.

The Indian Ministry of Finance is considering reducing the interest rates banks can charge on consumers’ outstanding card debts to make owning credit cards more affordable and to encourage mobile payments.

VISTA, Calif. – Bluepoint Solutions said it is partnering with PCSi, a South Carolina CUSO, to host Bluepoint's item processing solution, ImagePoint Hub, to aggregate checks, create cash letters and transmit them for settlement to any endpoint.

LIVERMORE, Calif. – Operating Engineers FCU on Wednesday said it signed with Integrated Media Management to implement the company’s browser-based FormSpeed solution to collect information and route forms through the proper channel.