Five of the nation’s largest credit card issuers reported improvements in September charge-off rates on outstanding receivables, prompting Moody’s Investors Service to suggest in an Oct. 18 report that August’s uptick in charge-off rates was a blip, not the reversal of an overall trend of improving charge-off rates.

Mitek Systems Inc. is debuting a mobile application that enables consumers to pay their bills using images of the bills captured with their smartphones.

Staples Inc. earlier this month began offering its customers the option to deposit certain store rebates into their PayPal accounts, a spokesperson for the Framingham, Mass.-based retailers confirms to PaymentsSource.

Despite an increase in spending on Visa Inc. cards in both July and September (August saw a decline), card-spending growth dropped during the third quarter as consumers remained cautious about their finances, according to Visa Europe’s UK Expenditure Index released on Oct. 7.

SAN DIEGO – Mitek Systems, one of the pioneers of mobile banking and mobile remote deposit, has introduced a new service that will allow users to pay bills electronically over their smartphones and other mobile devices.

CARSON CITY, Nev.-A staff forecasting tool has allowed Greater Nevada CU to reduce staff at the same time member activity levels have increased.

Commerce Bank will be the first to sign on with the Syncada open supply chain processing network owned by Visa Inc. and U.S. Bancorp.

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Bellwether Community CU has introduced CheckDeposit24, a service that allows members to deposit checks remotely in less than three minutes from their home or office.

Huntington Bancshares Inc. is rewriting its mobile strategy through the hiring of mobile-banking expert Jeff Dennes from USAA Federal Savings Bank.

A shakeout among debt-relief firms is likely as such companies restructure their operations to conform with new Federal Trade Commission rules that take effect this month, experts say.

Despite some industry pessimism, Transport for London says it hopes to see a cross-border contactless transit and payment card rolled out by 2012 that would support access to transportation services both domestically and overseas.

Mobile payments settled over the automated clearinghouse system officially have entered the mobile-payments space, but not without sparking debate.

A fresh take on the interactive payment card may be the farthest the technology has come in the United States, but the cards' cost may prevent them from reaching beyond niche customer segments.

Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, outlined an agenda Thursday for the newly authorized Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Average credit scores for U.S. consumers fell two points during the third quarter ended Sept. 30, and the decline was much sharper in certain regions in the South, according to data released by Credit Karma this week.

Mobile-payments company mPayy Inc. has added reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards as an option to fund its accounts, the company announced Oct. 12.

Financial institutions, mobile-phone networks, service providers, payment companies and transaction processors in both developed and emerging markets will be able to offer a wide variety of mobile banking and payments services under a enhanced technology platform Monitise PLC announced Oct. 14.

Mobile access to medical finances is becoming more important for employees — and their banks.

Chartway FCU said yesterday it has implemented the FIS Mobile Banking platform from Fidelity National Information Services.

Chartway FCU said yesterday it has implemented the FIS Mobile Banking platform from Fidelity National Information Services.