Total System Services Inc. this month announced new and extended payment-processing service agreements with three banks outside the U.S.

NCR Corp. said Tuesday that it had bought Mobiqa Ltd., a mobile provider of tickets, boarding passes, downloadable applications and coupons.

The housing crisis may now get as personal for bank executives as it has for individual homeowners.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU has rolled out a new mobile banking application by Forethorn Holdings LLC, a unit of Qualcomm Inc.

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi FCU has implemented Jack Henry & Associates’ Windows-based, .NET-architected Cruise core processing platform provided by its Symitar division.

TEXAS CITY, Texas – AMOCO FCU has improved its overall lending volume with the deployment and capabilities afforded through Integrated Media Management’s TotaleAtlasWeb, the company’s remote signature capture and secure document delivery solution.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU has implemented Consumer Source Capture from Fiserv to allow its members to make deposits any time from the convenience of their homes.

WEST JORDAN, Utah – Mountain America CU has added mobile remote deposit capture capabilities to its mobile banking platform, enabling members to securely deposit checks with a camera-equipped smart phone, providing the added convenience of anytime, anywhere deposits.

Ventura County CU has installed S1 Corp’s mobile banking application.

Austin, Texas-based University Federal Credit Union has contracted with Firethorn Holdings LLC, a unit of Qualcomm Inc., to provide its members with mobile banking services.

In rewriting Huntington Bancshares Inc.'s mobile and online banking strategy, Jeff Dennes faces a challenge he didn't have at USAA Federal Savings Bank: a large branch network.

VENTURA, Calif. – Ventura County CU has installed S1 Corp’s mobile banking application.

AUSTIN, Texas – University FCU has contracted with Firethorn Holdings LLC, a unit of Qualcomm Inc., to provide its members with mobile banking services.

Driven lower by heavy charge-offs and increased frugality among consumers, inflation-adjusted household debt, including borrowing on credit cards, has fallen about 5.6% from a peak in the fourth quarter of 2008, to a nominal $13.4 trillion in the second quarter this year.

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.