Green Dot Corp. has established a new division to serve government agencies.

Many banks' mobile strategies have hinged on getting smartphone applications to market as fast as possible, but now the early adopters are moving on to the next step — making sure those apps live up to consumers' expectations.

SALEM, Ore. – Oregon Employees FCU has contracted with doxo to use the company’s digital file cabinet to help its members organize household accounts and important documents.

Visa Inc. is working with clothing retailer Gap Inc. to deliver discounts to cardholders via mobile phone SMS text messages.

A Pennsylvania woman filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Target Corp. and its law firm over the department store's collection practices, claiming false affidavits were used to go after customers who allegedly owed money to a subsidiary bank that issues the store's credit cards.

ALXANDRIA, Va. – CommonWealth One FCU has teamed with Intuit Financial Services to offer its members Mobile Web and Text Banking.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Financial Management Solutions, Inc. yesterday rolled out its Lobby Tracking System on the Apple iPad.

Payment-terminal software applications are poised to play a significant role in the Near Field Communication payment ecosystem.

The Republic of Botswana’s First National Bank has launched a mobile wallet for its customers in the African country, a spokesperson for the bank tells PaymentsSource.

Sears Holding Corp.’s Kmart department stores have begun offering an improved version of Western Union Co.’s walk-in bill payment service.

Merchant processor WorldPay is reselling mobile-payments technology from vendor CellPoint Mobile that will allow clients’ customers to conduct transactions in several ways.

Finnish handset maker Nokia Corp. is working with Near Field Communication technology developer Proxama Ltd. to develop loyalty and advertising applications, the companies announced April 19.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Alta Vista CU has signed with IMN to implement the company’s Member Adviser solutions electronic communications solutions.

Selling mobile-processing services can prove quite profitable for independent sales organizations, observers say.

An estimated 515 different collection agencies and creditors were sued between March 16-31, the highest half-month period thus far in 2011 and up from 417 sued between March 1-15, according to data from U.S. District Courts.

The Obama administration announced Friday the release of a strategy to protect consumer and business identities in cyberspace.

The availability of NFC smartphones — an ingredient many say is necessary for mobile payments systems to take off — may be a less onerous problem by 2014, a report from Juniper Research said.

STERLING, Ill. – Select Employees CU has signed with MRG Document Technologies to provide it with loan disclosures and closing packages through its web-based MIRACLE Online document preparation technology.

Early data indicate consumers survived the holidays with less financial distress than in the previous few years, and the average U.S. credit card charge-off rate for most major issuers remains on track to continue declining for at least the next few months, according to analysts at Moody’s Investors Service.

AisleBuyer LLC, a Boston company, is selling mobile software that enables a consumer to scan an image of a payment card and use it to pay for in-store and online purchases.