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.

Seamless Distribution AB believes it has developed a mobile-payment method that replaces the need to shop with credit and debit cards, thus saving money for merchants who no longer would have to pay card-related fees, the payments software company announced Nov. 29.

Acculynk Inc. is banking on its relationships with major U.S. retailers to help it secure card-network partnerships in the international market to deploy PaySecure, its Internet PIN-debit product.

Consumer use of credit cards online is making a comeback, new research suggests.

Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.

BARDONIA, N.Y. – NorthEast Alliance FCU has signed with Geezeo to implement the company’s white label personal financial management system and engagement banking platform.

Starbucks Corp. plans to ride the U.S. success of its in-store mobile-payment method by introducing the application to customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Jan. 5, the Seattle-based company announced Nov. 24.

London’s O2 arena has begun accepting contactless payments via card or mobile phone in conjunction with card issuer BarclayCard and Visa Europe..

Consumer use of credit cards online is making a comeback, new research suggests.

Mark Jamison, who joined Capital One Financial Corp. in January as a managing vice president to help start up and lead the institution’s new Digital Innovation lab, has spent the past year building a staff of about 10 workers, many of whom have a combination of technology and startup expertise.

Air New Zealand has launched a smart prepaid card that supports MasterCard PayPass contactless functionality, the airline announced Nov. 22.

The nature of security threats against banks continues to change as fraudsters quickly refresh their efforts against digital and mobile banking.