Kenneth Chenault
CardWeb.com’s CardExecs database today features Kenneth Chenault, Chief Executive Officer of American Express.
Fortumo Partnerships
Fortumo mpayments signed partnerships with global smartphone manufacturers Oppo Electronics and Gionee. Fortumo’s direct carrier billing solution will be implemented for payments in the manufacturers’ app stores and Fortumo’s app catalogue becomes available for device preloads.
ClickPay & NovelPay
The ClickPay and NovelPay merger has added billions of dollars of processing by expanding its sales efforts nationally, upgrading processing capabilities, adding new products, and enhancing its technology infrastructure. Since the merger last year ClickPay has also increased its processing volume by over 600%.
ClickSwitch MSP
Fusion Network and Mobile Strategy Partners have teamed to integrate MSP Account Opening with ClickSwitch. The combined solution affords leading financial institutions seamless support for acquiring new accounts and relationships from shopping through switching.
Chase Disney Debit Card
CardWeb.com’s CardPixes database of more than 7,000 images today features the JPM Chase Disney Debit Visa.
Password Box
Intel acquired PasswordBox, a Montreal-based and award-winning provider of a cross-platform identity management service that gives users a convenient way to log into all of their websites and applications from any device without having to type or remember passwords.
Discover vs Visa
Discover has embarked on another antitrust lawsuit against Visa, this time over PIN debit. The lawsuit alleges that “Visa has a long history of making sure that PIN debit does not predominate, including undertaking illegal behavior to fend off competitive threats to its debit network services monopoly.”
Square Register
San Francisco-based Square introduced Square Register internationally, a revolutionary point-of-sale software which serves sellers a powerful suite of back office tools that track daily activity and provide insights into their business.
M-Payment Fraud
The third annual Mobile Payments & Fraud Survey is now open for input from all members of the payments ecosystem. Last year, nearly 2,000 participants made the survey the largest of its kind in the world with responses from merchants, service providers, payment processors, acquirers, card associations and issuers.
Velcro Pay
Velcro Pay launched a new merchant service audit system this week for business to receive a free no obligation audit of their existing services and savings report.
Masabi CEO
Mobile transit payment specialist, Masabi, has ankled Brian Zanghi as its new Chief Executive Officer and President. He will assume the role immediately and is focused on accelerating growth globally in the evolving mobile ticketing market.
My ECheck NAM
CA-based MyECheck has named Bob Sacco as the company’s national account manager. Sacco’s responsibilities will include overseeing the company’s nationwide customer portfolio, as well as implementing an executive operational strategy.