People on the Move: Joe Creamer and Jim Wojtak, MyECheck Inc.
MyECheck Inc., a provider of electronic check solutions for Internet and mobile payments, has added two members to its team.
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Company on the Move: Optimal Payments, EGR North America Award
Optimal Payments, a global online payment solutions provider, was named the Best Payments Company at the EGR North America Awards ceremony recently held in San Francisco.
People on the Move: Sarah Grotta, Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group has hired Sarah Grotta, a 20-year payments and banking industry veteran, as its head of the company’s debit advisory service.
People on the Move: Brian Mooney, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX)
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), developer of the CurrentC mobile payment platform, has appointed financial services and payment industry veteran Brian V. Mooney as the company’s interim CEO.
People on the Move: Patrick Dix, SHAZAM Network
The SHAZAM Network has added Patrick Dix to the company’s marketing team as a senior public relations manager.
APEX Europe Speakers to Tackle New Business Opportunities in Payments
When top payments and retail executives gather at All Payments Expo (APEX) Europe May 18-20, 2015 in Marbella, Spain, a key theme will be identifying and navigating new business opportunities surrounding emerging payments technologies, like mobile wallets and host card emulation (HCE).
Cinnober issues call to IT industry to restore trust
Exchange technology vendor Cinnober has invited financial IT companies to participate in a new Financial IT Quality Assessment initiative, which is intended to generate a public, industry-wide framework for quality assessment of financial software. The initiative is an attempt to restore shaken confidence in the sector and avoid further regulatory pressure.
MCX makes Mooney interim chief exec
Merchant Customer Exchange, developer of the CurrentC mobile payment platform has appointed financial services and payment industry veteran Brian Mooney as interim chief executive. Mooney succeeds Dekkers Davidson, who is leaving MCX to pursue other opportunities.
Lenson takes NED role at CurrencyCloud
Mitchel Lenson, former chief information officer at Deutsche bank, has become a non-executive director at CurrencyCloud
Italian Financial Police round up money-laundering gang
The Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), supported by Europol, arrested 10 members of a transnational criminal group yesterday. The criminals, mainly Nigerian citizens, were involved in laundering the proceeds of online fraud, amounting to more than €2.5 million.
Payments innovation: lessons from emerging markets
Africa and Asia are the centres of innovation in payments, with the developed markets of the US and Western Europe lagging behind, but the trend is towards domestic offerings rather than regional or international ones, says the latest Payments Innovation Jury Report.
‘Hound of Hounslow’ highlights need for surveillance says Nasdaq
As greater convergence between asset classes and the unification of trading desks and trading strategies across multiple asset classes becomes more common, the opportunities for sophisticated market abuse may be on the rise. That may mean that the need for surveillance is greater than ever, according to Tony Sio, head of SmartsTrade Surveillance, exchange and regulators at Nasdaq.
MCX Founding Member Best Buy Supports Rival Apple Pay
Best Buy Co., a founding member of MCX , surprised observers this week with news that it’s supporting Apple Pay on its Website, and adding POS support later this year. Is there a problem?
MasterCard Buys Software Analytics Firm (April 28, 2015)
MasterCard is paying $600 million to acquire Applied Predictive Technologies, a maker of analytics software to help companies tailor investments and calibrate pricing, marketing and merchandising of products. A key asset the new company provides is its “Test & Learn” platform, which will help MasterCard’s clients make more informed decisions to stay competitive, according to […]
Citi Prepaid Services Teams with Enservio to Tackle ‘Great Frontier’ (April 28, 2015)
Citi Prepaid Services is teaming up with Enservio to offer property insurance policyholders the option of a Citi prepaid card for claims payments.
Chase Pulling Out of International Commercial Card Biz (April 28, 2015)
JPMorgan Chase will exit the international commercial card issuing business by the end of this year, but it will continue supporting North American card programs and investing in purchasing cards and single-use accounts, such as virtual cards, as well as other products, a spokesperson for J.P. Morgan’s commercial card business tells Paybefore.
Discover Joins Apple Pay Fold (April 27, 2015)
Discover credit and debit cardholders will be able to make payments via Apple Pay beginning this fall, the companies announced today.
Processor Guidance Important to FI EMV Migration (April 27, 2015)
The Oct. 1, 2015, date for EMV compliance, when liability for counterfeit card transactions at the POS shifts to parties that haven’t adopted the chip card standard, is less than six months away and many financial institutions are finding the effort daunting, according to a study by Fiserv Inc.
Apple Bumps Up Capitol Hill Lobbying Expenses (April 27, 2015)
Apple Inc. is spending more time on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers on topics that include mobile payments, new lobbying expense data suggest. During the first three months of this year, Apple’s expenses for lobbying rose 16 percent compared with the same period a year ago.
Delegates voice frustration at slow progress on Open API rules during Swift event
Open APIs offer the promise of a better, more efficient and more inclusive financial services world. But delegates at the Swift Business Forum in London voiced frustration about the speed and direction of progress being made during a session on the topic.
Global real time payments are finally pulling into the station – 40 years late
Real time payments ‘innovation’ is in fact simply capitalising on advances that first appeared four decades ago, according to panellists at the Swift Business Forum this week. Since then, progress has been glacial in many places. So why has it taken so long to get real time payments?
OMG addresses data sovereignty issues in the cloud
The Object Management Group has formed a new working group to study issues of documenting and controlling data across distributed cloud environments, a big inhibitor of cloud for those with strict data sovereignty requirements such as banks and financial services firms.
Swift Business Forum panel slams EU trade reporting rules
New trade reporting requirements that would require banks and other capital markets participants to demonstrate best execution through data will impose massive costs and will not provide an equal level of benefit, according to senior executives speaking at the Swift Business Forum in London this week.
U.S. Networks Stocks Rise with Access to $6.8 Trillion Chinese Market (April 23, 2015)
Stocks for all four major U.S.-based payments networks were up yesterday, following news that they’re finally gaining full access to one of the largest payments economies in the world.
PayPal Fuels eBay’s Engine in Q1; M-Payments up 40 Percent (April 23, 2015)
Electronic payments were a driving force behind eBay’s first quarter, ended March 31, 2015, which saw the online auction site total $4.45 billion in revenue compared with $4.26 billion in the same quarter a year ago, according to the company’s latest earnings report.
House Bill Likely D.O.A. Because of Proposed Funding Cap on CFPB (April 23, 2015)
Spoiler alert: A bill approved yesterday by the U.S. House of Representatives basically will be dead on arrival as President Barack Obama has vowed to veto any legislation that tries to touch the purse strings of the CFPB.
Cerutti steps down at Euronext
Euronext has announced that its chief executive Dominique Cerutti will step down in July to become chairman and chief executive at advanced engineering group Altran.
Europe’s CSDs are facing a regulatory squeeze warns Nasdaq
European banks and CSDs will be forced to change their business models under relentless pressure from Basel III, CSDR and T2S. That may involve consolidating services, as well as considering opportunities for collaboration, according to Henri Bergström, head of global post trade solutions at Nasdaq.
Fed will report on faster payments at end of 2016
The US Federal Reserve hopes to have a report on how to create a faster payments infrastructure by the end of next year and has begun processing the 325-plus applications it has had from would-be participants in its task force for faster payments.
US looks to learn from other markets on faster payments
The UK Faster Payments experience is providing some guidance for the US Federal Reserve’s efforts to move beyond its slow ACH system, but it should take a different approach, according to a speaker at the Nacha Payments 2015 conference in New Orleans this week.
Expert: Apple Watch Likely to Be Apple’s Most Profitable Product Ever (April 21, 2015)
The Apple Watch will be Apple’s most profitable product line ever, with gross margins exceeding 60 percent, according to some observers.
Cachet Targets Millennials with Apple Watch (April 21, 2015)
Attracting millennials requires a better banking experience and Apple Watch may hold the key, according to Minneapolis-based mobile money technology provider Cachet Financial Solutions, which today announced its prepaid mobile platform supports Apple Watch.
Samsung’s Biometrics Plans Go beyond Samsung Pay (April 21, 2015)
Samsung has even larger plans for biometrics beyond including fingerprint-based authentication as part of its Samsung Pay mobile payments service.
ICICI Bank Introduces Contactless Payments at Large Corporate Campuses (April 21, 2015)
India’s largest private bank is exploring contactless payments in a limited rollout to corporate campuses that enables employees to use a mobile prepaid account to make NFC payments at corporate canteens and shops.
300 organisations vie to join Fed faster payments task force
More than 300 organisations have applied to participate in the US Federal Reserve’s task force for faster payments, Sean Rodriguez, senior vice president for industry relations at the Chicago Fed, said yesterday at the Nacha conference in New Orleans.
US EMV roll-up will see migration of fraud to other channels
The growing use of chip cards – EMV for the cognoscenti – will spur criminals to try new directions in fraud, Al Pascual, practice leader at Javelin Strategy, told delegates at the Nacha Payments 2015 conference in New Orleans. But it will take a little time because criminals have established modus operandi and it takes them time to move from one practice to another.
Report: Apple Pay Coming to Canada (April 20, 2015)
Apple Inc. is negotiating with Canadian banks to bring Apple Pay to Canada as early as November, with details about fees and security protocols at the center of discussions.
PayPal on Security: Thinking Outside the Box, Inside the Body (April 20, 2015)
Jonathan LeBlanc, global head of developer advocacy at PayPal, says the future for mobile payments and other sensitive transactions could lay with embeddable, injectable and ingestible devices.
CFPB Consumer Finance Research Conference May 7-8 (April 20, 2015)
The CFPB is holding a conference next month that it says will focus on high-quality consumer finance research, with academic and government experts presenting data.
Viewpoint: Canada’s Regulation of Mobile Payments: Merchant Protection at the Cost of Innovation?
Some of the most significant changes to Canada’s Code of Conduct for the Credit and Debit Card Industry affect the rights of merchants regarding mobile and contactless payments. Will the updated Code have the unintended consequence of disincenting investment in and adoption of innovative payment technologies in Canada?
