Pennsylvania State Employees CU has introduced mobile banking through Firethorn Holdings LLC, a wholly owned unit of Qualcomm Inc.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Chartway FCU said yesterday it has implemented the FIS Mobile Banking platform from Fidelity National Information Services.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania State Employees CU has introduced mobile banking through Firethorn Holdings LLC, a wholly owned unit of Qualcomm Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Oct. 13 reported third quarter increases in both net income and sales volume for its Card Services unit, aided by continued reductions in charge-offs and delinquencies and by a rise in consumer card use.

U.S. consumers’ average credit scores fell two points during the third quarter ended Sept. 30, while the decline was sharper in certain regions in the South, according to new data Credit Karma released Oct. 13.

Bank card delinquencies fell 26 basis points to 3.62% of all accounts, the lowest mark since the first quarter of 2001 and far below the 15-year average of 3.93%, according to a report released last week by the American Bankers Association.

Cubic Corp. has launched an updated application that enables consumers in one German city to purchase public-transportation tickets using Apple Inc. iPhones, which display purchased tickets as barcodes scanned at turnstiles for entry, the transportation ticketing company announced Oct. 6.

Afni Inc., based in Bloomington, Ill., has rented 51,577 square feet in Evans, Colo. for a new 500-person call center announced last week, according to brokers involved in the deal. The company plans to move in next week.

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County’s CU has introduced a mobile banking platform by Tyfone of Portland, Ore.

When PXT Payments first introduced a smart debit card program for municipal parking payments in 2006, little did it know then the system also would become a way for municipalities to keep currency flowing throughout the local economy.

In a ruling that will affect hundreds of credit unions, a federal judge agreed Friday to dismiss a suit by MShift claiming that Intuit Financial Services, formerly Digital Insight Corp., is infringing on its patent for mobile banking.

SAN FRANCISCO – In a ruling that will affect hundreds of credit unions, a federal judge agreed Friday to dismiss a suit by MShift claiming that Intuit Financial Services, formerly Digital Insight Corp., is infringing on its patent for mobile banking.

PayPal Inc. said its new mobile remote deposit capture feature is a hit among its mobile app users.

Fiserv Inc. is breaking down the barriers for small merchants to present statements within online banking sites, a service more commonly limited to high-volume billers.

SAGINAW, Mich. – Team One CU will become the first credit union to offer Card Services for Credit Unions’ mobile banking product.

Rudy Pereira believes mobile banking will change the environment and the manner in which credit unions offer products and services to their members.

Merchants accepting payments via mobile phones experienced the highest card-not-present fraud volume in 2009, facing on average 3,385 attempts to commit fraudulent transactions each month, new research shows, suggesting the need for higher security as more merchants accept mobile payments.

A global relief organization and a local mobile-phone provider in Haiti recently completed a test of its Mobile Money funds-transfer project in which Haitians affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake used mobile phones to receive payment for work and to make purchases at a local grocery store.

East Japan Railway Co. during the first half of next year plans to offer a mobile fare-payment service for its network supported by mobile network carrier KDDI Corp.

Usage of mobile person-to-person payment services in Africa is expected to explode in the next five years, according to a new research report.