When it comes to consumer identity safety the leaders are: American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, Citibank, PNC, SunTrust, USAA, and Wells Fargo. JAVELIN’s 2016 credit card issuers’ study scored 20 of the nation’s top credit card issuers – providing insight into how the customer‐facing security measures of credit card issuers are mitigating…
BlueVine, an online provider of working capital financing to small businesses, announced has closed $40 million in funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $64 million to date. This Series C funding was led by an investment from Menlo Ventures, with additional participation from new investor Rakuten FinTech Fund, follow-on investments from Lightspeed Venture Partners,…
Atlanta-based Sionic Mobile unveiled its highly anticipated ION Loyalty Small Business Center is now live, providing small business owners and local merchants an affordable, easy-to-use mobile loyalty, payments and marketing platform. ION Loyalty helps increase traffic and sales through unlimited advertisements in the ION mobile marketplace and with merchant-branded eGift Cards. The service also cuts…
Flywire, f/k/a peerTransfer, a provider of cross-border payment solutions, has acquired Toronto-based ScholarFX, a processor of tuition, room and board payments for international students attending universities and other educational institutions in Canada. The news follows Flywire’s successful October 2015 acquisition of UK-based Uni-Pay, and its continued strong organic growth. The ScholarFX acquisition brings the total…
Montreal-based Mobeewave and Global Payments inked an agreement to offer Global Payments’ Canadian clients an innovative new mobile payment acceptance solution. The solution is designed to enable secure, in-person payment transactions, made with any contactless credit card or mobile wallet (e.g. Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay), directly on an NFC-enabled mobile device, without the…
Visa has ankled Lynne Biggar as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, effective February 1st. She will also serve as a member of the company’s Executive Committee and Operating Committee. Ms. Biggar joins Visa from Time Inc. where she was the Executive Vice President, Consumer Marketing & Revenue. While at Time Inc.,…
NC-based Levvel, an IT consulting firm that provides its clients with the ability to leverage technology to innovate like nimble disruptors and scale like industry leaders today announced that it has completed a $2 million round of financing, led by its senior management team. Also participating in the capital raise were existing investor Walnut Grove…
CPI Card Group has ankled Doug Pearce to the board of directors, effective as of January 20th. Pearce will serve on the Board’s Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Doug Pearce was the founding Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC), one of Canada’s…
UnionPay International and Dubai Tourism has announced their partnership in Shanghai, agreeing to jointly enhance the payment convenience in Dubai for UnionPay cardholders through resource sharing and advantage complementing. With this cooperation, the two sides jointly launch a marketing campaign for UnionPay cards (card number starting with 62) at over one hundred merchants in Dubai.…
CardFlash.com Breaking News: WU (milestone); PINNACLE (investment); EMAZZANTI (PCI); and FIDO (milestone). WU – The Western Union Company announced its account payout network, a global capability that enables cross-border money transfers to be directed to bank accounts – has reached a new milestone, now connecting consumers to over one billion bank accounts. PINNACLE -Pinnacle Financial…