Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and eBay have joined the growing group of major financial companies to withdraw from the coalition charged with launching Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, according to news reports.

ACH Network payment volume rose 9.5 percent in the third quarter from the same period a year ago, Nacha reported.

ICBA and ICBA Bancard continued their Payment Executive Brief series for community bankers with a new brief on digital payments strategy.

ICBA testified before Congress for a second consecutive day on its strong support for the Federal Reserve’s decision to build a real-time payments system.

ICBA kicked off two days of congressional testimony on its strong support for the Federal Reserve’s decision to build a real-time payments system.

ICBA and ICBA Bancard continued their Payment Executive Brief series with a new blog post on digital payments opportunities for community banks.

ICBA is testifying before two congressional committees this week on its strong support for the Federal Reserve’s decision to build a real-time payments system.

ICBA Bancard, the payments services subsidiary of ICBA, announced that its credit card bank, TCM Bank, N.A., has acquired the agent bank portfolio of Security BankCard Center, Inc.

ICBA and ICBA Bancard launched a Payment Executive Brief series for community bank executives navigating the evolving digital payments landscape.

ICBA and its payments services subsidiary ICBA Bancard today announced a Payment Executive Brief series designed specifically for community bank executives as they navigate the evolving digital payments landscape.

ICBA Bancard launched a new interactive tool to help its community bank clients create a custom digital payments strategy.

ICBA Bancard announced the launch of its interactive tool to help its community bank clients create a custom digital payments strategy—the ICBA Bancard Digital Payments Strategy Tool and Guide.

ICBA and other financial services organizations sent letters to key members of Congress reminding them about the success of direct deposit for the U.S. workforce.

Academic scholarship on the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 suggests it has had a mixed effect on consumer welfare with unintended consequences, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a settlement with Maxitransfers Corp. in the first enforcement action based on violations of the Remittance Transfer Rule, which implements the Electronic Fund Transfer Act.

ICBA told Nacha it supports the creation of a registry that would allow financial institutions to more easily connect with each other about ACH operations, exceptions and risk management.

A new ICBA timeline details the debate over faster payments that culminated in this week's Federal Reserve announcement that it will develop a service to support real-time payments.

ICBA Bancard, the payments services subsidiary of ICBA, has been endorsed by the Idaho Bankers Association, marking the 39th state banking association to give its seal of approval to ICBA Bancard.

ICBA was featured in news coverage of the Federal Reserve's ICBA-advocated announcement that it will develop a service to support real-time payments.

ICBA and community bankers can take pride in knowing they left nothing on the field during the debate over Federal Reserve involvement in real-time payments, ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey wrote.

After years of ICBA-led advocacy on behalf of a faster payments system that ensures access and choice for community banks, the Federal Reserve said it will develop a service to support real-time payments.

ICBA today applauded the Federal Reserve for its decision to develop a real-time payments system—a longtime ICBA priority.

More than 90 percent of the 350 respondents to the Federal Reserve's faster payments request for comment said it should build a real-time gross settlement service, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said.

Fiserv Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of First Data Corp.

ICBA continues urging community bankers to support Federal Reserve involvement in real-time payments.

ICBA reiterated its call for the Federal Reserve to develop its own real-time payments settlement system in a new letter to the Fed and an ad running today in Beltway publications.

ICBA today reiterated its call for the Federal Reserve to develop its own real-time payments settlement system to ensure universal access and avoid a megabank monopoly.

A Fed-operated real-time settlement system is needed to ensure universal access and to promote future payments innovations, ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey wrote in a new op-ed on Medium.

With the Federal Reserve closing in on its decision about whether to take a leadership role in faster payments, ICBA is urging community bankers to contact policymakers in support of Fed involvement.

ICBA is calling on community bankers to send messages to their district Federal Reserve Bank urging support for Fed leadership on faster payments.

Account takeover fraud (ATO) continues to challenge consumers, businesses, and the financial services industry. This article examines today's ATO landscape and offers recommendations and protections for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions.

Finding a new vendor can be a test of your negotiation skills, especially when nearly everything in business is negotiable. Follow these 12 tips from ICBA's executive vice president and chief digital strategy officer, Prabash Shrestha, to glean his winning tips and strategies for vendor negotiation.

In the latest issue of Bancard Confidential, Kimball, Minnesota-headquartered Harvest Bank shares how it has leveraged ICBA Bancard's charitable giving platform to help support local non-profits and charitable organizations in the communities it serves.

Could a fingerprint or iris scan be the answer to consumer password fatigue? Perhaps. In China, several face-detecting technologies are being used to authorize payments, with the Alipay “Smile to Pay” mobile app among the most popular.

The time has come for community bank card issuers to begin ramping up their contactless payments strategy. More than half of the top 100 U.S. merchants are already contactless enabled and smaller merchants are also speeding to adopt contactless point-of-sale technology in a bid to improve the cusotmer experience.

ICBA Bancard’s Senior Vice President of Card and Payment Products, Julie Hanson, says that many times when she is discussing debit and credit card portfolio strategies with community bankers, they are unaware of the many core benefits that are baked into their Visa and Mastercard programs.

A Visa study examines how digital trends are reinventing consumer expectations. This shift in the ecosystem is driven by universal connectivity, prevalent social media use, the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and increasingly interactive user experiences along the entire customer journey and across all channels.

As more community banks look for ways to deliver innovative solutions to their customers, they will most likely have to find ways to work with financial technology companies.

Last month, Visa eliminated the use of static passwords for its Verified by Visa cardholder authentication service. Static passwords were once thought to be an easy and secure way to verify a consumer’s identity, but with more than 1.8 billion compromised accounts floating around on the Dark Web, these stolen credentials are now said to be responsible for more than 80 percent of all hacking-related breaches.

Community bankers raised more than $10,000 for the youth non-profit Project 150 with ICBA Bancard’s new charitable giving platform, powered by FIS at the ICBA Community Banking LIVE this past March. ICBA Bancard’s new charitable giving platform helps move charitable donations to the web and can help banks drive organic portfolio growth while raising awareness for qualifying local charities or disaster relief programs.

Mobile platforms for prepaid cards and omni-channel merchant capture are just a few of the innovative technologies community banks can leverage to establish traditional banking relationships with the unbanked or underbanked. Scalable cloud-based solutions make it affordable for even the smallest banks to compete with large banks and with nonbank financial services competitors, such as check cashers.