WASHINGTON – Treasury Department FCU has selected Trusteer’s Rapport to meet the new regulatory security guidelines for online banking security and protect its members from malware aimed at stealing funds and personal information.

BALTIMORE – Johns Hopkins FCU has signed a multi-year deal with Connect Financial Software Solutions to implement the company’s consumer suite of Internet Banking, and significant customization services.

Companies pushing mobile-payment technology in the United Kingdom have failed to capture the imagination of consumers, who generally indicate low interest in initiating transactions using their mobile phones, new study data suggest.

Banks are combating fraud with technology on a number of fronts, according to a Novarica study released this week.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Gila Group has introduced a new service offering focused on targeted dialing campaigns.

KINGSPORT, Tenn. – Eastman CU has signed with EasCorp FCU’s Vertifi Software CUSO to implement the company’s DeposZip Mobile for mobile remote deposit capture for its members.

MasterCard Worldwide has signed a letter of intent with Russian cell-phone carrier Mobile TeleSystems to bring PayPass contactless-payment functionality to Russian mobile phones, the card brand announced Oct. 28.

Use of mobile financial services rose sharply during the second quarter compared with the end of last year, according to comScore’s latest mobile banking adoption research.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – CUAOk Services, the CU Association of Oklahoma's service corporation, is partnering with Cachet Financial Solutions to offer the company’s Select Mobile remote deposit capture solutions to Oklahoma credit unions.

Apriva LLC plans to launch a mobile wallet next month that could help independent sales organizations and agents stake their claim on part of the mobile-payments market.

Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority has put together an industry group to develop a system under which consumers may pay for taxi fares and small purchases with their mobile phones.

ARNOLD, Mo. – Arsenal CU said it has implemented Financial Management Solutions Inc.’s ContactCenter Management System.

CHICAGO–Google Inc., Isis and PayPal Inc. each are attempting to position their mobile wallets as the one consumers will prefer to use on their smartphones.

The nation’s largest credit card issuers in September reported significantly fewer charge-offs than a month earlier, driving the average bankcard charge-off rate to its lowest level since 2007, according to new data Moody’s Investors Service released Oct. 26.

Two new Blackberry devices are the first Subscriber Identity Module-based Near Field Communication smartphones to receive MasterCard Worldwide PayPass certification, Research In Motion Ltd. announced Oct. 26.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Oct. 26 unveiled a mobile-payment platform to enable iPhone-owning customers to do online banking, instantly send funds to Facebook friends or to anyone’s email address or telephone number, and, with the use of a special cover, make contactless payments.

PLEASANTON, Calif. – 1st United Services FCU has contracted with Geezeo for the company’s Referral Engine.

Taking mobile payments to new heights, MasterCard Worldwide soon will conduct a test of contactless-based payments at 30,000 feet, enabling passengers to purchase refreshments using its contactless PayPass technology aboard planes from WestJet, a Calgary, Alberta-based airline.

CHICAGO–The mobile-commerce market is littered with various wallet models, acceptance devices and applications, and this is forcing merchant-service providers to seek out ways to bring the elements together to help retailers maximize the channel’s potential, notes one mobile-payments executive.

The Beijing branch of China Telecom Corp. Ltd. has begun enabling customers to make payments using their China UnionPay cards over its mobile network as part of a pilot that launched Oct. 20.