People on the Move: Bob Mengani, Chartwell Compliance
Chartwell Compliance has hired Bob Mengani as senior compliance director.
Chartwell Compliance has hired Bob Mengani as senior compliance director.
Littleton, Colo.-based card producer CPI Card Group has hired industry veteran Tony Sabetti to lead CPI’s mobile and NFC market initiatives through CPIMobile, a digital issuance solution using Sequent technology.
FIME, a France-based provider of consulting, test and certification services for payment systems, cards and terminals, has been elected to the EMVCo board of advisors to represent the technical associates for a one-year term.
Mobile payments company Fortumo has appointed Tim Carter chief revenue officer, based in the company’s London office.
Dean Young, senior vice president of relationship development at PSCU, was appointed to the National Association of Credit Union Service Organizations’ (NACUSO) board of directors.
New Wave Holdings Inc., a prepaid industry holding company, has appointed Shawn Carden CEO.
paysafecard, a global provider of prepaid online payment methods and member of the international Skrill Group, announced that Dr. Hartwig Gerhartinger, senior legal counsel at paysafecard, has been selected to join the board of the Prepaid International Forum (PIF) as a non-executive director.
The cost of data breaches globally will quadruple over the next four years to $2.1 trillion, as cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and profitable.
Two of the biggest names in global commerce are exploring a partnership that could bring Apple Pay to China.
Mitek Systems has unveiled authentication technology, which it says will improve customer acquisition efforts by enabling issuers to instantly verify a consumer remotely or in a brick-and-mortar bank location using a driver’s license.
With less than six months to go before the October 2015 EMV liability shift for U.S. payment cards, 65 percent of consumers haven’t yet heard of chip card technology and 77 percent have not received a chip-enabled card, according to a survey.
YapStone, a global provider of Web and mobile payment technology solutions for large vertical markets and online marketplaces, named David Durant general counsel.
Nasdaq is to use the blockchain technology behind controversial alternative currency Bitcoin, as part of a push to improve the exchange’s equity management abilities. The move is the first time a major global exchange has put the blockchain concept to use.
In an exclusive interview, Meyerhoff tells Paybefore that the company is not for sale, not planning to sell and has not engaged any third party to contemplate or pursue a sale.
The head of the Senate Banking Committee reportedly is readying a bill that would restructure the Federal Reserve and lead to fewer midsize banks being deemed “too big to fail.”
In honor of the late Terry Maher’s tireless work on behalf of the industry, the NPBCA is further cementing his legacy by establishing the Terrence P. Maher Influencer Award.
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Global interoperability of real-time payments systems will require harmonisation of market practices and standards. A group of international clearing houses, banks, vendors, payments associations and other parties have proposed setting up an activity to look at how to deliver this under the aegis of the International Standards Organisation – and set an ambitious target of collating an initial variant of ISO 20022 usage guidelines for real-time payments before the summer.
Weve, the U.K. telco-led mobile wallet joint venture of O2, Vodafone and EE, this week announced another major reorganization, abandoning its earlier mobile payments ambitions to focus on mobile advertising, under the sole ownership of O2.
The U.K. rollout of Visa Europe’s V.me digital wallet is picking up steam, the payments network said, with support from banks representing more than half of the country’s 130 million cardholders and thousands of merchants.
Wirecard Group will support the launch of mobile operator Orange’s Orange Cash mobile payments service in Spain.
European lawmakers, following years of discussion, believe improved competition, more innovation and enhanced consumer protections in cross-border payments will be the result of an informal agreement on a revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) reached this week.
Ripple Labs Inc. acted as a money services business and sold its virtual currency without registering with FinCEN.
The integrity of data in capital markets – be it, for example, price data, trade facts, collateral balances, or other key business information – has long been a fundamental concern of technologists and business stakeholders. But how do we define integrity?
EMV card usage is increasing almost everywhere in the world as a billion new EMV cards enter circulation – but the US continues to lag behind, despite the fact that liability shifts to the retailer from 15 October this year.
Euronext has appointed Jos Dijsselhof as interim chief executive, accelerating its transition plan following the resignation of Dominique Cerutti at the end of last month. Cerutti will now leave immediately.
A decade ago, one of the driving factors behind outsourcing was reducing cost and headcount. However, with the growing regulatory and compliance burden, firms are increasingly becoming more cautious about outsourcing.
As new payments technology seeks to disrupt the industry status quo, pressure is intensifying for financial institutions to adapt through innovation, or risk losing their existing leadership in the value chain, a new study from ACI Worldwide suggests.
Visa Europe has not only opened the physical doors of its new international innovation hub in London, the payments network also is opening its figurative doors to working with companies across the fintech ecosystem to create what it calls a new generation of payment services.
Consumers’ perceptions of mobile payments security have improved, along with the number of consumers who say they’re likely to use a mobile payment app in the next 90 days, according to a new survey.
BBVA is shaking up its corporate structure as part of what the bank calls a “digital transformation.”
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As mobile handsets become more prevalent as a tool for retailers, for payments, loyalty and engaging with consumers in and out of the store, security of sensitive data becomes increasingly more important.
Notes from a business law meeting with speakers from the CFPB, FTC and New York Department of Financial Services.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently rejected a lawsuit by Morgan Drexen Inc., a provider of services to consumers through debt-relief lawyers, against the CFPB by a vote of 2-1.
Visa Inc. is holding to its October 2015 fraud liability shift date for EMV chip acceptance, although several merchant groups reportedly have requested an extension.
In a letter sent to Congress and other federal agencies, an ad hoc group of four consumer and technology organizations called for broad action to require PINs—not signatures—for all U.S. EMV card transactions.
Four industry-leading organizations recently have filed their quarterly earnings reports.
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