Credit unions and other financial institutions cannot and should not treat all data security breaches as the same or as having the same risk, according to Bruce Hansen, CEO of ID Analytics, a data security firm.

A survey from Bankrate.com, an Internet site that tracks card trends and their impacts on consumers, has found almost none of the card issuers surveyed still charge the cardholders a fee for using their debit cards, no matter whether they sign to validate transactions or use a personal identification number.

A survey of debit card issuing and use has found that rewards programs on debit cards, once a rarity, have become more widespread, but that they remain less robust than rewards programs on credit cards.

In the wake of a wave of card security breaches that have cost many issuers tens of millions of dollars, two messages came through loudly at Visa USA's Maintaining Trust in Payments conference on card security, which the card brand hosted free to most participants in Washington, D.C. on Mar....

At a time when a newly Democrat-controlled Congress seems poised to take on a searching and critical review of major card issuers' card account management practices, Citigroup, a leader in the industry, has announced that it is abandoning one of the most controversial procedures.

In an effort to reach out to credit unions on a ground other than cards, Elan Financial Services, the card acquisition and processing arm of U.S. Bank, is preparing a white paper that it said will help credit unions better understand their options for serving the small business needs of...

Despite being troubled by a series of ongoing board disputes, the $1 billion Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union has been selected to provide ATM services to pilgrims at a Roman Catholic shrine popular with people of Polish descent. The site is the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa,...

NCUA's latest round of steadily improving card portfolio numbers may signify that more credit unions have discovered the value of an asset which had been previously largely overlooked.