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The majority of companies are using outdated methods to reach customers and fail to take individual preferences into account, according to a survey of retail banking industry and customer communication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

BOSTON-The demand for business mobile banking services is a mixed bag, according to a new report from Aite Group.

SAN FRANCISCO-Users of mobile banking now believe that biometric identification-which rose in its rating-and the use of security questions or knowledge-based authentication (KBA)-which declined in its rating-are equally effective in mobile authentication, according to a new study.

BOSTON-Over the past 12 to 18 months, the United States has begun to move closer to a "tipping point" that will lead to the popularization of mobile payments.

SAN ANTONIO-Like a mother who hides her child's vitamins in the cereal, USAA Federal Savings Bank is disguising new technology through old-fashioned, face-to-face service.

SAN FRANCISCO-Launched in 2005 as a pioneer in online personal financial management tools, Wesabe, Inc. soon rose to prominence. The service allowed consumers to pull in transaction data from multiple financial institutions and compare their spending to that of their peers, through software and discussion groups it hosted.

A new customer segment – the “first-time defaulter” – has emerged in the past two years and is presenting challenges for banks, according to a survey examining the future of consumer lending conducted by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services.

Think Finance wanted to give underbanked consumers access to credit when they needed it and help them avoid a bad cycle of debt.