Fiserv has re-branded its Mobile Money and the BankAnywhere mobile-banking products it gained when it acquired Mobile Commerce Ltd. re-naming all the programs Mobiliti.

ATLANTA – Well-known credit union vendor S1 Corp. told shareholders this morning to hold their stock until the board has weighed the latest takeover offer from ACI Worldwide, which is seeking to top a competing merger agreement between S1 and FundTech.

HONOLULU – Hawaii Pacific FCU has selected Open Solutions’ DNAtMagic Integrated Teller Capture and OpenCheck Outsourced Item Processing to streamline its operations, improve performance and reduce operating costs.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Rivermark Community CU has selected Integrated Media Management’s FormSpeed document output management and automation technology.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv on Tuesday introduced a new mobile payments suite designed to consolidate and replace two existing solutions.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Shazam network has introduced a mobile payments platform, which allows merchants to accept mobile PIN- and signature-based transactions using an iPhone.

The wireless carriers involved in mobile-payments venture Isis reportedly plan to invest more than $100 million into the project.

Alternative payments provider Dwolla Corp. is adding to its software a feature that locates fellow Dwolla users who are nearby.

WESTBURY N.Y. – Nassau Financial FCU has launched Mobile-24, a new mobile banking service powered by mFoundry’s mBanking mobile banking solution.

UniRush LLC is following the lead of other prepaid card providers and has released a free smartphone application cardholders may use to check their balances and review transaction and funds-transfer histories.

Consumers have filed 7,923 lawsuits against collection agencies and creditors this year through Aug. 15, a record-setting pace that easily tops the 7,169 lawsuits filed through the same period last year.

The average U.S. bankcard charge-off rate dropped sharply in June, registering the second-largest monthly decline since the Bankruptcy Reform Act took effect in 2005, according to the latest data from Fitch Ratings Inc.

Steve Jobs' resignation raises further uncertainty over Apple Inc.'s payment plan intentions, but Apple patents themselves provide some clues as to where the company may be going.

China over the next five years will begin adding financial functions to the country’s social security cards, the state-owned People’s Daily newspaper reported Aug. 22. Ninety million of the new cards will be issued by the end of this year, the ministry told the newspaper.

Despite increasing activity involving mobile payments, consumers still trust credit card companies more than companies such as Google Inc., eBay Inc. or Facebook Inc.

DURHAM, N.C. – Latino Community CU has implemented a Voice over Internet Protocol communications system to link its nine branches with its headquarters here.

Three schemes that promised to help consumers resolve mortgage and debt problems were shut down by the Federal Trade Commission as part of settlements for falsely claiming an affiliation with government assistance programs.

Boku Inc. has inked an agreement with two French wireless phone carriers to offer its carrier-billing service, a deal which will extend Boku’s reach to 32 million customers in France.

Collection agencies likely will take a keen interest in a ruling issued last week by a federal judge stating that collection efforts using an autodialer warrants a trial.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Mobile payments developer Dwolla rolled out a new feature called “Proxi” which allows users to send and receive cash-based mobile payments based on their current proximity to another connected device.