The more than 3,000 credit unions using Card Services for CreditUnions can now plan to offer their members mobile service as partof their credit and debit card functionality, the creditunion-owned company said.

CSCU said it has partnered with MShift Inc. to offer thatcompany's carrier-agnostic mobile banking solution and can offerthe service “at significant savings” because of its pooledvolumes.

“We were very thorough in our due diligence, consideringmultiple vendors,” said Robert Hackney, president of CSCU inClearwater, Fla. “In the end, we chose MShift because of theirstrong reputation in the credit union space and their ability toimplement mobile across a broad range of core platforms quickly andat a reasonable cost.”

MShift said it currently provides mobile banking solutions tomore than 30 of the nation's largest credit unions and that thefunctionality is expanding.

“The demands of the mobile banking consumer have rapidly maturedfrom mobile delivery of core banking services, like accountbalances and transfers, to the mobile access of other importantfinancial services – such as credit/debit card services, P2Ppayments, check deposit, bill pay, and more,” said Scott Moeller,CEO of MShift in Fremont, Calif.

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