Mobile-payment proponents let out a collective groan when Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone 4S lacked a Near Field Communication chip.

Like a pop star who sells more records posthumously, the Google Checkout payment service may prove most beneficial to Google after it is phased out.

Can using multiple branding terms to describe a payment process help an issuer to achieve its own brand loyalty and clarify its product message, or would doing so confuse customers?

The U.S. is in a balance-sheet slowdown: overleveraged households are tightening their belts and holding back on consumption, thereby choking off the economy's main engine.

Morpho Sanfran Inc. will supply a Hungarian issuer with the country’s first dual-interface credit card based on EMV computer chip technology, the identification documents technology provider announced Nov. 17.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Security Service FCU has signed with CIBER to implement the company’s Microsoft Dynamics customer relationship management solution for its 850,000 members.

Based on a groundswell of optimism surrounding Near Field Communication payment applications on display this week at the Cartes & IDentification conference in Paris, executives at NXP Semiconductors are eager to counter criticism from some quarters that NFC is too complex and bank-centric to catch on widely.

The name of Visa Inc.'s digital wallet, V.me, understates its ambition for the service. That may turn out to be a smart branding move.

Chip-based fuel cards soon may replace magnetic stripe versions oil companies issue for use at European gas station stores and fuel pumps.

Some analysts may question the viability of mobile-payments applications, but MocaPay Inc. is making some changes to help them along.

Bankers long have told their customers to log off after online-banking sessions. But with mobile, USAA Federal Savings Bank is explicitly permitting users to stay logged on.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Summit FCU has rolled out mobile banking for its members.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – LG&W FCU has chosen has selected TRC Interactive to deliver online instruction through CreditUnionTrainingOnline.

SCRANTON, Penn. – Tobyhanna FCU has signed with AnyHour Solutions for the company’s 24x7 call center solution.

Consumers’ outstanding credit card debt rose incrementally during the third quarter, while the proportion of consumers falling behind on their monthly card-account payments rose for the first time in nearly two years, according to a report TransUnion LLC released Nov. 15.

M-via Inc. has rolled out a service called Boom designed to provide immigrants with a low-cost, safe alternative to high-fee funds-transfer services, the mobile-payment network provider announced Nov. 15.

Vendors’ smart card shipments could reach 7 billion next year, up 16.7% from 6 billion this year, fueled primarily by strong smart card growth in Latin America and China, vendor trade group Eurosmart announced Nov. 15 at the Cartes & IDentification conference in Paris.

Rampant data breaches have taught consumers that it is not always wise to store payment data with a third party, but soon such behavior may become the safer way to transact.

The Central Bank of Nigeria reportedly is in talks with the Nigerian Postal Services to use of the bank’s branches as outposts to promote mobile payments.

Some credit card issuers may be tempted to loosen underwriting standards this holiday season as credit card loss rates hover at record low levels. But such policy shifts could have more far-reaching implications on issuers’ bottom lines than just a few years ago, one analyst warns.