MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – Kinecta FCU has gone live with Halogen Software’s eCompensation pay-for-performance solution.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-A new study has found a slight decline in levels of consumer satisfaction with online banking, even though the overall score remains high, with CUs strongly outperforming banks overall.

ORLANDO, Fla.-Financial services providers, including credit unions, have raced to provide as many delivery channels as customers/members demand. But that has raised a new challenge and potential for either high levels of customer/member satisfaction, or frustrating dissatisfaction: integration of those channels.

Bling Nation Ltd. wants to see how well its hands-on approach to deploying mobile payment systems can scale, with a new partnership that gives it access to over 330 potential bank clients.

The number of foreclosure filings - notices of default, auction notices and bank repossessions - fell by 9% from March to April, and 2% compared with April 2009, reports RealtyTrac, the online marketer of foreclosed properties.

FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines FCU has renewed its contract with TuVox for on-demand, speech and IVR applications, and will add the company’s service providing instant, relevant product recommendations to members.

Against long odds, EMV cards are finally coming to the United States.

For the time being the mobile banking environment is fairly safe. That's not because mobile phones are secure, often they're not. Few people use passwords or install anti-virus software. Security experts say they're safe simply because cybercriminals have not yet seriously targeted phones for malware. But as more people adopt mobile banking and it becomes more transactional-not just checking balances and getting alerts-the threats are likely to mount quickly.

U.S. consumer credit scores are holding steady, with the average score reaching 670 in April, up one point since the beginning of the year, according to new data from Credit Karma Inc.

TAMPA, Fla. – floridacentral CU has selected Connect Financial Software Solutions’ consumer suite of Internet banking, bill payment, and other services.

The fast growth of social-networking sites containing users’ personal information is drawing concern from some payment data-security experts who say the risk of exposing consumers’ sensitive data is rising. And mobile-payment devices pose similar risks because many developers lack data-security expertise, they say.

With demand surging for person-to-person transfer systems, payments companies are developing ways to make the transactions settle faster.

Before the mobile contactless payments race has even kicked off, First Data and Visa have grabbed the wheels of the pace car to move the pack faster. Tired of waiting for phone makers and carriers to embrace the concept, both firms have teamed with tech firms to develop products that allow customers to place NFC chips into mobile phones that accept microSD cards.

Square Inc. on May 11 announced its much anticipated payment card-acceptance software application for Apple Inc.’s iPhone.

Maryland's consumer protection division announced it reached a $20,000 settlement with payment processor MAP LLC for allegedly failing to properly dispose of consumers' personal information.

Obopay Inc. is all but abandoning the mobile transfer service it offers to consumers now that it's learned — maybe too late in the game — that banks are where the money is.

MasterCard Inc. said Monday that it has hired Andrew Ong to head its worldwide person-to-person money transfer efforts.

2010 will be remembered as the year that implementing mobile banking moved from being a get-on-the-bandwagon trend to table stakes in the American retail financial services market, the year that big banks began to recognize the channel's own legitimacy, and the year that most mid-tier and community banks put mobile banking on their short list of things to get done.

LINDEN, N.J. – Integrated Media Management has launched an iPad application for its popular TotaleAtlas document management solution.

Now's an exciting time to be the bank executives charged with rolling out mobile banking. As industry fortunes rebound, funding is suddenly available at many financial institutions, and consumers' ever-increasing use of their ever-more-sophisticated mobile devices put institutions in the enviable position of rolling out technology just as consumers are ready to embrace it, as opposed to inventing tools and trying to motivate adoption.