COLUMBIA, S.C. – Palmetto Cooperative Services LLC said yesterday it has signed with Viewpointe to offer the company’s Pointe2Pointe Internet-based image exchange service to its 400 credit unions.

The 200 million wireless subscribers connected to AT&T Inc., T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. may not be enough for the companies’ mobile payments joint venture to succeed; it still needs to attract large banks and merchants, one analyst says.

ANZ Bank Ltd. on Nov. 15 launched the ANZ Rugby World Cup MasterCard credit card, marking the country’s first contactless “tap and go” credit card.

When a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January, the country’s government and relief organizations used services tied to mobile phones to pay victims for clean-up work. The program sought to empower Haitians with a means to buy food and other goods and services.

AT&T Inc., T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. on Nov. 16 unveiled Isis, their long-rumored mobile payments joint venture that will route contactless transactions over Discover Financial Services’ network.

Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA will unveil more details on their joint venture to create a mobile payment network, which will be financially backed by Barclays PLC and Discover Financial Services, as soon as Tuesday, according to people familiar with the situation, Dow Jones is reporting.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Consumers CU said yesterday it has rolled out a mobile banking by text messaging service that allows members to view account balances and activity right from a cell phone or other mobile device.

SAN DIEGO – San Diego County Community CU has introduced live chat capabilities for its members.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Custom Credit Systems announced new mobile capabilities for its CustomLender commercial loan product suite.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – CO-OP Financial Services is enhancing its My Deposit mobile deposit solution to allow credit unions to reach out to small business owners who want to electronically submit checks to their credit unions for deposit.

Consumers in the United Kingdom and Italy may apply low-cost online purchases to their mobile-phone accounts under a partnership Glamoo Ltd. and Onebip Srl announced Nov. 10.

ASB Bank Ltd. in Azerbaijan has begun accepting payments from its customers for the mobile-phone services provided by Azerfone-Vodafone and NarMobile, the bank announced recently.

Co-Op Financial Services is enhancing its at-home remote deposit-capture service to enable credit unions to reach out to small-business owners who might want to electronically submit checks without visiting a branch, the company announced Nov. 15.

Total U.S. bankruptcy filings rose 11% during the first nine months of this year compared with the same period a year ago. Data from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts show there were 1,222,589 filings through September versus 1,100,035 in the first nine months of 2009.

Consumers have yet to widely adopt bill payment on smartphones — a trend some say is typical of new bill-pay systems.

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.

PayPal Inc. has launched a Hebrew-language version of its online payment website for Israeli customers.

VantageScore Solutions LLC in January will provide U.S. lenders with a major update of its credit-scoring model, this time using an unprecedented number of consumer credit files to more accurately reflect borrower risk following the economic downturn, the company recently announced.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – IAA CU has signed with TRC Interactive to implement the company’s First Line of Defense ~ Fraud Detection and Loss Prevention Challenge, an online interactive experiential exercise for banks and credit unions that helps keep their staff sharp, focused and alert to the latest scams.

HOUSTON – Cardtronics said Fred Lummis, whose CapStreet investment funds built the company into the largest ATM fleet in the world, resigned as chairman of the board, where he has served since his private equity fund bought control of the fledgling independent service organization in 2001.