Brian Day

Despite Uncertainties, CUs Should Keep Tabs on NFC

By Natasha Chilingerian | February 27, 2013

Doubt has been swirling around the potential widespread use of near field communication, or NFC, a technology that links consumers’ mobile phones to merchants’ point-of-sale terminals, enabling instant mobile payments. Apple released the iPhone 5 without an NFC chip, leaving millions of consumers out of the NFC equation.
Mobility Matters: What's in Your Digital Wallet?

By Robert McGarvey | November 26, 2012

Tracking the mobile banking revolution in credit unions with veteran technology writer Robert McGarvey.
New Mobile Ecosystem Calls for CU Card Brand Protection: Guest Opinion

By Brian Day | September 17, 2012

In an era of almost daily news about alternate and mobile payment solutions in our industry, credit union executives are right to be concerned not only about the future of their business but also of the potential dilution of their brand as new players enter the market.
TMG, Sharetec Announce Easy Implementation of Dwolla P2P

By Robert McGarvey | September 14, 2012

Core processing platform distributor links up with person-to-person payments developer.
Protecting Your Brand in a Mobile Payments Ecosystem

By Brian Day | August 20, 2012

Credit union executives are right to be concerned – not only about the future of their business, but also of the potential dilution of their brand as new players enter the market.
TMG on the Future of Mobile Payments

By Robert McGarvey | May 18, 2012

A Members Group webinar offered up a provocative view of a banking future that in lots of ways challenges every idea credit union executives hold.
Walk Before You Run With Online and Mobile: Guest Opinion

By Brian Day | April 1, 2012

A mobile triple play describes a financial institution’s offering when it provides customers access to mobile banking in a total of three ways: mobile browser, text and mobile application.
Shifts in Payment Habits Helps Steer Mobile Wallet Demand

By Robert McGarvey | April 1, 2012

What’s your wallet made of – leather, or bits and bytes? At CUNA’s recent Government Affairs Conference held in Washington that was a key question raised among those close to the evolution of payment transactions.
P2P Breakout Awaits

By Robert McGarvey | February 20, 2012

You don’t need cash to buy a box of Girl Scouts’ Thin Mints from David Cale, CEO of Financial Plus Credit Union.
Guest Opinion: Show Gen Y the Credit Union Difference

February 5, 2012

At 80 million strong, Gen Y will soon control the nation’s wealth, posing a mammoth opportunity for credit unions. Born during the early 1980s and the late 1990s, the group is more than three times the size of Generation X and exerts major influence on American culture.