Payments/Credit/Debit

DETROIT -Zero percent interest loans and rebate offers may have been part of the Big 3 auto manufacturers' strategy to move more vehicles, but have consumers gotten used to too much of a good thing? A monthly study from Harris Interactive and Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research - AutoVIBES-indicated that...

BETHESDA, Md. - Allpoint has signed up its first credit union in Arizona, making that state the 26th one in which the largest ATM network nationwide that provides surcharge-free ATM access to cardholders has participating banks and credit unions. The Network announced that the $94 million Huachuca FCU headquartered in...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - More kids will get a better education in American political and cultural history from colonial times, thanks to grant of support provided by a credit union card services group. PSCU Financial Services, the card servicing cooperative that serves 500 credit unions that process their card transactions...

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv has introduced FraudGuard Digital Signature Verification, an outsourced service that digitally analyzes check signatures and compares them against a customer database to detect check fraud. Products like these will likely become more valuable in the Check 21 era as images will be more common and easier...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - TNB Card Services, the credit card processing and purchasing arm of the credit union-owned Town North Bank has issued a paper which aims to help credit unions make the decision whether or not to sell or hold its credit card portfolio. Previously, TNB Card Services has...

SAN FRANCISCO -Visa USA saw the volume of sales on its cards issued in the U.S. climb by over 19% in 2004, the card brand reported, yielding a total of just over $1 trillion on all Visa branded cards (credit, debit, prepaid and commercial). "By any measure, 2004 was a...

ARLINGTON, Va. - The pace of consolidation in the overall credit card industry continued apace in 2004 as a parade of mergers and acquisitions continued to mark the maturing industry, according to Cardweb.com, a site on the World Wide Web that tracks card trends. According to Cardweb, the top 10...

ST PETERSBURG, Fla. - The $179 million Freedom Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Bel Air, Maryland, has converted its card processing to PSCU Financial Services, the card processing cooperative announced. PSCU processes debit and credit card transactions for over 500 credit unions that use the First Data Corporation platform. "We...