FITCHBURG, Mass. – Workers’ CU has added Harland Financial Solutions’ uTransfer for account-to-account fund transfers and renewed its existing agreement for uOpen.

CorFire is working to show it is ready to make a name for itself in mobile payments.

Consumers filed an estimated 524 consumer statute lawsuits in the first half of July, down from 567 in the second half of June.

KINGSTON, N.Y. – Mid-Hudson Valley FCU, one of the first deployers of the 24x7 video teller, is the first credit union or bank to offer the technology at the drive-thru lane.

In what it is calling a return to decades-old marketing tactics combined with new technology, credit-score giant FICO this week introduced a product designed to target credit card customer prospects more effectively in a sluggish market.

Chris Olson doesn't count himself among EMV's detractors or evangelists. "It's a lot like Beta or VHS, you don't really know how it's going to turn out," says Fremont Bank's COO on the question of whether EMV cards (debit or credit cards embedded with a computer chip that meets the standard named for creators Europay, MasterCard and Visa), magnetic stripe cards or some other kind of point-of-sale plastic will dominate the U.S. card market in the future.

FICO, provider of the ubiquitous credit scores, on Wednesday said fiscal third quarter net increased almost 30% to $23.2 million, despite a 3% drop in revenues.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Redwood CU announced this morning it will deploy 30 NCR SelfServ ATMs, 29 of which feature NCR’s Scalable Deposit Module, a new technology that allows consumers to deposit both cash and checks simultaneously in any orientation through a single slot.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – 121 Financial CU rolled out person-to-person payments with Fiserv’s ZashPay.

Verity Credit Union, the latest customer of mFoundry's mBanking solution, has come out with the news that 6% of its customers began using mobile banking within three months of the credit union offering the service.

For a large international operation such as RBS' wholesale banking unit, drawing a mobile roadmap means scaling the knowledge curve posed by fast-developing new devices and technology to find the best match between innovation and client demand.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Central Corporate CU has contracted with Viewpointe for the company’s Pointe2Pointe image exchange technology with Internet connectivity.

SEATTLE – Verity CU on Tuesday said it has deployed mFoundry’s mBanking mobile system.

T-Mobile USA Inc. is the latest wireless carrier to allow its subscribers to charge purchases of online games, songs and videos to their phone bills.

Digital payments have been the primary enabler of new financial services in Africa, as evidenced by the M-PESA-driven development of an entire financial ecosystem in Kenya. Further south, MTM MobileMoney has developed an electronic commerce payments system that enables debit payments, which should decrease seller discomfort with the credit-based digital commerce that has prevailed in that country.

One of the most significant challenges to widespread adoption of Near Field Communication-enabled mobile payments has been determining how the card brands, issuers, mobile operators and handset manufacturers will divvy up transaction revenues.

To help distribute its Serve digital payment and wallet service, American Express Co. on Aug. 1 announced a deal in which Verizon Wireless will integrate the platform into many of its mobile phones and tablets.

The roster of big banks using Fiserv Inc.’s online personal payments system is growing with the addition of BBVA Compass.

While big U.S. banks look safer than they did last fall, credit-default swap spreads illuminate how the market has been drawing distinctions between the largest institutions.

Business lending has been a lonely source of recent growth for banks, and already it's coming under scrutiny for signs of a bubble in the making.