WARREN, Ohio – Seven Seventeen CU has acquired Experian QAS data quality software to better manage member addresses.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Sioux Empire FCU has implemented eDoc Innovations’ CheckLogic branch capture and electronic image processing system.

A newly announced mobile phone running Google Inc.’s Android software contains the hardware groundwork for mobile payments.

Co-Op Financial Services announced it has teamed with mFoundry to offer mobile deposits, allowing members to “snap and deposit” checks from anywhere using their mobile phones.

Vivotech Inc. and Monitise PLC have formed a partnership to bring mobile-payment services to banks within the United States, London-based Monitise announced Dec. 7.

PARIS–Vendors will ship 6.02 billion smart cards next year, up 13.2% from 5.32 billion this year, fueled by growth in emerging markets, vendor trade group Eurosmart announced here Dec. 7 at the Cartes & IDentification conference.

PARIS–Mobile payments are set to expand dramatically within the next two years, payments industry executives concurred during a roundtable discussion here Dec. 7 at the Cartes & IDentification conference. Although various obstacles to widespread deployment remain, the panelists agreed the industry has achieved significant progress within the past 12 months.

PARIS–This year’s Sesame awards presented during a ceremony here Dec. 6 included a broad variety of technologies among the various winners.

PARIS–Visa Inc. is making mobile payments a standard feature offering for its partner banks by moving into commercialization with a system it has been testing with four of the largest U.S. issuers.

FICO's quarterly survey of bank risk professionals indicate a credit gap that has hindered U.S. consumer spending is likely to continue well into 2011. Also, lenders are unlikely to meet the credit demands of small businesses in the near term.

WARREN, Ohio – Seven Seventeen CU has implemented eDoc Innovations’ CheckLogic integrated branch check capture and electronic image forward processing system.

MINNEAPOLIS – U.S. Bank and Visa introduced a new way for customers to make purchases using their mobile phone – simply waving their phone in front of a Visa payWave contactless payment terminal to pay.

Financial institutions looking to make up for revenue lost should debit card interchange rates dramatically drop next year could target what increasingly has become a thorn in their side: third party automated clearinghouse debits from their customers’ checking accounts, new research suggests.

Payvment’s grown rapidly in its first year, fast enough for the Facebook shopping site to find itself in need of more talent and larger digs while it considers how bank involvement can enhance the business model.

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Motorists in Dubai reportedly are upset about the new mParking service launched by the Road Transport Authority of Dubai because of its limited functionality. The service enables motorists to pay for their parking lot tickets by sending a text message from their mobile phones.

As the effects of recent financial legislation may cause some card issuers to scale back on the rewards and loyalty programs they offer to encourage card use and, inherently, shopping, the doors may be opening for third-party loyalty-program providers to align with merchants.

The majority of companies are using outdated methods to reach customers and fail to take individual preferences into account, according to a survey of retail banking industry and customer communication trends.

BOSTON-Since 2007, the mobile banking market has changed significantly in terms of predominant technologies, features/functionality and consumer adoption, so Celent has undertaken the task of evaluating those changes and ranking the mobile banking solutions on the market.

WASHINGTON-More than half of the Top 100 financial institutions in the United States offered mobile banking services as of September, according to a new study by First Annapolis Consulting.