SALEM, Ore.-Oregon Employees FCU here is shedding the Microsoft mantle, opting for the "power of Google" for enterprise collaboration.

SEATTLE-Fraud loss at School Employees CU here is "manageable, and significantly under the average for signature cards," after the credit union began talking with an outside risk expert.

FITCHBURG, Mass.-Mobile banking is secure, for now, according to credit unions participating in a Credit Union Journal mobile banking security roundtable. But that could change as CUs expand mobile banking capabilities — and if members become careless.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The ATM fraudsters who stole about $50,000 from TruWest Credit Union here last winter were "pretty clever."

LAWRENCE, Mass.-Prospects looked bleak when the core system crashed one day last year at Merrimack Valley FCU. But then they called on Westbrook, Maine-based credit union service provider Synergent Technology Services.

CHARLESTON, W.V.-Members use Square to make and receive payments at WV United FCU, and they "Skype" with employees, part of a history of technological innovation and playfulness at the $25-million CU.

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When it comes to battling data breaches, banks would be well served doing such things as curbing employee web surfing to prevent unauthorized access to information. That’s just one of the suggestions bankers, technology providers and analysts made in a recent survey PaymentsSource sister publication, Bank Technology News, conducted.

NEW YORK — MasterCard Inc. is preparing for the launch of Google Inc.’s mobile wallet within the next few weeks, but executives do not expect to see consumers regularly paying with their phones anytime soon.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv said it will begin personalizing chip payment cards based on the Europay MasterCard Visa EMV standard.

SEATTLE – Puget Sound CU said it signed with eDOC Innovations to implement the company’s CheckLogic Branch Capture solution with forward collection direct to the Federal Reserve.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Insight CU has signed with FI-MOBILE to implement the company’s UniFI mobile app solution.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – Members of NASA FCU with direct deposit will receive their pay 24 hours early as part of the credit union’s new EarlyAccess Payroll.

SEATTLE – Members at BECU and hundreds of credit unions had their cards rejected at CO-OP Financial ATMs Friday as a result of a disruption in the system at processor Fidelity National Information Systems.

As Nigeria’s strategy of using mobile banking to move toward a cashless economy progresses, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc became the latest bank among a handful in the nation allowed to offer mobile-payment services.

More than 3,000 merchants have signed up to use an alternative mobile phone-based loyalty scheme called Paycloud from SparkBase Inc. that may eventually include a mobile-payment element, the company says.

PayPal Inc.’s planned entry into the brick-and-mortar space has been known for some time. But the eBay Inc. subsidiary this week released some details about how it would handle those payments and revealed that most, not surprisingly, would involve a smartphone.

NORCROSS, Ga. – S1 Corp announced this morning it is terminating its merger agreement with Fundtech in the face of the better offer for the Israeli financial services provider, but won’t walk away cheaply, with Fundtech paying it an $11.9 million break-up fee for termination of the merger.

URBANDALE, Iowa – Urbandale CU has rolled out online, mobile, social and location-based payments solution Dwolla.

ESCANABA, Mich. – Delta County CU has deployed its first scanner to begin using CheckLogic Lite, remote merchant capture software from eDOC Innovations.