Pay Award-winning Karmic, which offers an integrated payment and expense management solution, has raised $17.2 million in a Series B round of financing. Wei Hopeman and Jim Whims have joined its board of directors.
An early interest in credit cards hooked Jim Schafer on payments. Since then, his work has taken him across the globe in roles as diverse as programming and human resources. But it’s his current role as senior compliance director of FIS Payments that has led him to be named one of Paybefore’s Compliance Titans.
FutureVault, a personal and business information management company based in Toronto, has named banking executive, lawyer, entrepreneur and investment professional John D. Orr as CEO. Orr also has made a significant personal investment in the company for a material ownership position.
The 2-year-old Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization has welcomed three new members and added an annual CPPO Prepaid Symposium to further its mission of supporting the fast-growing prepaid industry in Canada.
Enacomm Inc., which provides customer authentication and customer service technology, has hired David Baker as vice president of sales, financial services.
Kim Sergent has joined InComm as vice president of marketing for its Financial Services division, where she will lead the marketing strategy of InComm’s consumer-facing Vanilla brand, which produces prepaid consumer products that include Vanilla Gift and MyVanilla.
U.K.-based W2 Global Data, a provider of regulatory, KYC/AML and fraud prevention solutions, has welcomed three new hires, including Alex Lafferty, Richard Evans and Kerry Cleary.
Digital threat management firm RiskIQ has expanded its management team with three new executive appointments, including Nick Puetz, Jenna Raby and Clarence Cheuk.
Global Processing Services (GPS), a 2017 Pay Award-winning payments processor, announced the appointment of Neil Harris, former head of business and market development at Bottomline Technologies, to the role of chief commercial officer.
Nearly a decade after jumping from the public to the private sector, Green Dot’s Jeff Ross remains as enthused as ever by the new challenges and complexities he faces every day as compliance head for one of the biggest players in an industry with a constantly shifting regulatory landscape and technology that’s advancing at a breakneck pace.
Payments processor i2c Inc. has appointed Jean Douchey as senior vice president of operations.
Payment solutions provider Cardtek has joined the OSPT Alliance, a global association chartered to help the transit, mobile and loyalty markets move toward an open infrastructure for fare collections.
Comodo, a global developer of cybersecurity solutions and digital certificates, has hired Carlos Solari as vice president of cyber security services.
Mobile fintech provider Digiliti Money Inc. has joined the Russell Microcap Index.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) has announced the retirement of senior vice president and general counsel Mallory Duncan.
Global POS services provider Payworks has received a 2017 German Enterprise Award from Worldwide Business Review.
TSYS has been recognized by Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service, as one of the most community-minded companies in the U.S.
Even when serving in senior manager and director roles with the likes of American Express and TSYS early in his career, Rick Oglesby, AZ Payments Group president, always felt he was destined to be a payments consultant. That vision came true in 2011, and you don’t have to spend too much time with him before his love of consultancy work—helping companies succeed while establishing and nurturing relationships—becomes apparent and likely is the reason why he was selected as one of the industry’s Top Payments Consultants.
Richard Steggall didn’t even set foot in the U.S. until he was approaching 30. So, what prompted the native Aussie by way of London to set up a fintech shop in New York—first as Waspit, then as Urban FT, the SaaS-based digital payments platform he now heads? It was, of course, American optimism.
Brian Tate has been named president and CEO of the NBPCA, replacing Brad Fauss, who in May stepped down from his role at the helm of the prepaid industry association to join Wirecard North America. Tate has served with the NBPCA since 2013 as vice president of government affairs, helping lead the organization’s legislative and regulatory policy agenda, including managing the federal political strategy and building relationships with policymakers on the national and state levels.
Global payment and risk management solutions provider AFEX has appointed Wayne Mitchell as general manager, EMEA.
Digital banking solutions provider Fidor Solutions has named Geert Ensing to the role chief information officer.
Mayer Brown LLP has added Nicolette Kost De Sevres to the firm’s Washington D.C., office, where she will serve as a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution practice.
Arthur Kirsten has joined mobile money transfer provider MFS Africa as head of risk and compliance.
Social money transfer provider Moneymailme has appointed Mark Bolsom as business development director.
nexo Standards, the global industry association dedicated to enabling fast, interoperable and borderless payments acceptance, has elected a new board of directors at its recent general assembly.
When the self-described skeptic took over as global head of prepaid for Mastercard earlier this year, Andrew Buckley wasn’t quite convinced that the opportunities ahead were worthy of all the hype. Five months later and he’s among the converted, preaching the gospel of democratization—not just of payments but of innovation.
Craig James, founder and CEO of compliance consultancy Neopay, views compliance like a chess match—you have to know the board better than everyone else, so nothing surprises you.
A.J. Koehn has joined Urban FT Inc., a digital payments platform provider and 2017 Pay Awards winner for Startup of the Year, as its new senior vice president of compliance and program management.
Deutsche Bank has named Tommaso Zanobini global head of financial technology.
Fidor, a digital banking solutions provider, has appointed Jeff Hibbard chief product officer. Hibbard’s focus is on driving product innovation for Fidor’s operating system.
PSCU, a credit union service organization, has appointed Chris Shockley associate director to its board.
Mobile payments platform provider Judopay has appointed Ryan Farley CEO.
Mastercard has appointed Shafi Shaikh executive vice president, customer delivery, Asia-Pacific. Shaikh oversees customer support, product delivery and customer relationships.
TransferTo, a global B2B cross-border payments network, has appointed two senior executive team members as part of the company’s plan to accelerate business growth.
Worldpay vice chairman Ron Kalifa has ranked third out of 100 in the EMpower Ethnic Minority Leaders List, presented by The Financial Times
Citi has appointed Manish Kohli global head of the payments and receivables business.
International Regtech Association, a global nonprofit association focusing on regulation technology has been formed, with more than 100 founding members.
Wirecard North America, a provider of global payment solutions, has appointed Kevin Brown to the Wirecard executive team in North America.
Jani Gode’s knowledge of payments compliance reaches to parts of the globe that are about as far away from the small Minnesota farm where she grew up as you can get. Gode leads the global compliance program as chief compliance officer at Payoneer, an online payments company founded in 2005 that enables businesses to send and receive cross-border payments.
