PLANO, Texas — Facebook, Google, microsites and mobile banking are helping to attract younger members in droves to InTouch CU here.

With sponsorship from Citigroup Inc., Billing Revolution Inc. is trying to help convert people who window-shop on their mobile phones into paying customers.

EL PASO, Texas – GECU has installed Coordinated Systems, Inc.’s Virtual Observer call recording and quality monitoring system.

Starbucks Corp. now includes PayPal Inc.’s payment system as a funding method for its mobile payment application.

Chinese banks will replace magnetic stripe cards with smart cards by 2015, according to an official from China UnionPay.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – DeepTarget Inc. said it has added five more credit unions to its clients roster for the company’s online marketing and delivery services.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – Kinecta FCU said yesterday it signed with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services to implement the company’s ARC Logics for Financial Services offering to proactively measure, monitor and manage risk across all of the credit union's business lines.

SAN ANTONIO – Firstmark CU said yesterday it has elected of Adobe as its provider for online business optimization software.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Member Driven Technologies, a technology CUSO owned by five area credit unions, was awarded a $557,000 state tax credit by the Michigan Economic Development Corp., one of 13 awards announced yesterday.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Technology CU has hired Herman White, Jr., former managing director and co-founder of Crossbridge Venture Partners, a $40 million venture capital fund, as senior vice president of commercial and business banking.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Dwolla, the low-cost person-to-person money transfer start-up, said yesterday that the Iowa CU League-affiliated The Members Group and Veridian CU, its partner, have agreed to invest $1 million of Series A financing.

Near Field Communication will outlast other mobile-payment technologies such as microSD cards and two-dimensional barcodes, observers contacted by PaymentsSource generally agree.

PayPal Inc.’s Oct. 26 announcement that its transactions would be integrated into VeriFone Systems Inc.’s mobile point-of-sale product after Jan. 1 is a clear sign PayPal wants to move beyond e-commerce transactions, observers say (see story).

Mobile-payments provider Zong Inc. has entered the Philippines market through partnership agreements with mobile carriers Globe Telecom Ltd. and Smart Communications Ltd., the U.S.-based company announced Nov. 17.

With fewer borrowers delinquent on one or more accounts, U.S. consumers' credit risk level dropped in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 to a mark not seen since the first quarter of 2009, according to TransUnion's Credit Risk Index (CRI) released Wednesday.

Mitek Systems, fresh off some major wins for its mobile technology, announced yesterday it broke into the black for its fiscal fourth quarter to the tune of a $180,000 net, compared to a $328,000 loss for the fourth quarter last year.

Recent developments suggest 2011 will be the year that mobile payments take hold in the United States in a big way.

BERLIN, Conn. – Achieve Financial CU announced yesterday the signing of an internet banking and bill payment services contract with Connect Financial Software Solutions, a former CUSO in Salt Lake City.

BILOXI, Miss. – Keesler FCU has signed with Diebold to upgrade its ATMs in the United Kingdom by replacing its current terminals with Diebold Opteva machines, powered by Agilis software.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Polish & Slavic FCU said yesterday it signed with uMonitor to implement the company’s uTransfer secure money transfer system for account-to-account money transfer service.