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.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv has teamed with Integrated Media Management to integrate Teller Source Capture from Fiserv with Integrated Media’s Teller Item Capture solutions, allowing more credit unions to use the Teller Source Capture application from Fiserv to capture images and process transactions.

Credit card debt decreased 18% to $6,285 in August even as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a slightly lower year-over-year 9.1% unemployment rate for the month, according to Credit Karma's latest U.S. Credit Score Climate report.

NEW YORK – Israel’s Funtech Ltd. announced this morning that Chicago private equity firm GTCR has offered to acquire the company for $23.33 a share, which appears to trump a previous merger agreement with S1 Corp. and end a hostile takeover fight for the Atlanta services provider.

Capital One Financial Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Fairbank says he believes the credit card business is headed for significant consolidation and that his company intends to be one of the industry's "endgame players."

The Groupon daily-deal craze allows financially savvy consumers to save money with merchants they frequent, but it has so far had little to do with banks.

Another Iowa credit union has added a Dwolla Corp. account and payments link to its online banking format, continuing a trend for the Des Moines, Iowa-based mobile-payment startup as it attempts to expand its reach.

Aiming to beef up its digital payment offerings for businesses, London-based Mobile Interactive Group Ltd. acquired online micropayments startup firm Zaypay International B.V., the companies announced Sept. 13.

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu in mid-September plans to test the use of biometric smart cards to help disburse pensions in an effort to prevent corruption in the process of delivering cash payments to recipients.

Gamers who plan to play Blizzard Entertainment Inc.’s new role-playing game Diablo III can use PayPal as an option for in-game purchases when the title is released next year.

The New Jersey Supreme Court lifted a foreclosure ban on Ally Financial Inc. on Monday, removing the last state barrier for mortgage servicers to fully resume operations a year after their widespread "robo-signing" procedures came to light.