SD-based Meta Financial Group reports its bank subsidiary, MetaBank, completed the previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the related assets and liabilities of Fort Knox Financial Services Corporation and its subsidiary, Tax Product Services.
Toronto-based GreenCoinX has formed an Advisory Board to assist in the further development of GreenCoinX, the world’s first identifiable crypto currency. GreenCoinX identifies users and facilitates the collection of user defined optional taxes by worldwide governments.
Worldpay reports Britain’s bookies have kicked off this year’s Barclays Premier League with a bang. Following a quiet two months , the opening weekend of the new season provided a timely reminder of how much love the nation and punters have for the ‘best football league in the world’.
KWI cloud solutions launched its contactless Apple Pay digital wallet for its KWI Cloud 9 Mobile POS platform. This includes the addition of the VeriFone PAYware Mobile e315 and e335 sleds to KWI’s product offering which supports the Chip & Pin/ EMV retail industry’s requirement for later this year. KWI continues to be the industry leader with 60+ specialty retailers running the KWI Cloud 9 Mobile platform. “Our acquisition of the source code and the associated patent licenses in January, 2014 from Verifone has enabled KWI to quickly roll out new enhancements providing our clients with an early-to-market advantages in delivering a world-class customer experience”, states Sam Kliger, Founder and CEO, KWI. The KWI Cloud 9 Mobile platform is available for use with the Apple iPad, iPad Mini,or iPod Touch and is designed, developed and delivered wholly by KWI.
After the launch of Apple Pay this week, the experts are weighing in and declaring Apple Pay will succeed where other mobile payments solutions have faltered. Some experts say Apple Pay may make using physical credit cards obsolete.
Diebold announced Alan Kerr has been named executive vice president, software. An experienced software and field operations leader, Kerr will build the strategy for the company’s global software organization. With more than 25 years of senior-level experience, he has held senior leadership positions with several IT software and services leaders. An experienced change management leader, he successfully restructured the sales operations and helped deliver revenue in excess of $3 billion.
Raphaels Bank Card Services has secured a significant contract with The Post Office to issue a new prepaid MasterCard – the Post Office Money Card. An alternative to the traditional bank account associated debit and credit cards, the Post Office Money Card has been designed to help consumers budget effectively as only the amount loaded to the card by the customer can be spent. The card is designed for usage within UK to pay for goods and services both online or on the high street and to withdraw cash from ATMs, wherever the MasterCard logo is displayed. Raphaels Bank will issue the Post Office Money Card Pay As You Go and Pay Monthly which can be topped up in over 11,500 branches,
Barclays Bank of Botswana has partnered with Bytes Managed Solutions, the exclusive distributor of NCR technology solutions in southern Africa, for the installation of intelligent cash deposit ATMs. Last month, the bank launched a new generation of ATMs that provide customers with convenient ways of banking outside the banking halls. The ATMs are specifically designed for high transaction usage. They accept cash deposits with real time credit capability, recycle the deposited cash, dispense cash, do cheque deposits, and offer a broad range of other services, such as bill payment, funds transfer, mobile phone top-up and mini-statements.
SEEKING REAL “GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY!” Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Marvel Studios, Dolby® Laboratories and Visa Signature are joining forces for a nationwide MARVEL’S “GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY””GUARDIANS OF GOOD contest in conjunction with the August 1, 2014 release of Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper. MARVEL’S “GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY””GUARDIANS OF GOOD invites real “Guardians of the Galaxy,” young men and women (ages 14-18) from across the United States, to share their stories of how they are bettering their communities through service, science or innovation, and gives them the opportunity to connect with a galaxy of Peer Guides”who are already doing great things”to learn from their successes. Entries will be accepted between June 11, 2014 and June 29, 2014.GUARDIANS OF GOOD INNOVATION & SERVICE SUMMIT is scheduled to include presenters from NASA/JPL, speaking on the monitoring and protection of Earth through asteroid detection and Earth-observing satellites and ensuring the safety of Mars spacecraft during a comet encounter, Disney Imagineers, generationOn, Broadcom MASTERS®, Discovery Science Center, & Disney Global Community Outreach.
DataCash – A MasterCard Company, is teaming up with Phoenix Managed Networks (PMN) IT network provider to further enhance its merchant payment solutions with PMN’s enterprise-strength network security and management service.
The combination of industry-leading Chip&PIN payment processing technology provided by DataCash and PMN’s PhoeniXSentry network security and management service, delivers both an affordable and advanced end-to-end managed security service for maximum protection of in-store IT traffic, for retail environments of any size. The PMN solution will allow DataCash merchants to easily and comprehensively protect their Point of Sale transaction data by separating payment and non-payment related internet traffic, thus ensuring the risk of potential data breach is significantly reduced.
Reposs has been appointed the only EPoS partner for WHSmith Local using the Reposs Core EPoS Software and Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions SurePOS and TCxWave hardware. WHSmith Local needed an EPoS Solution for their franchisees that could manage product supplied by WHS retail and also manage all the other products and services that are offered by a typical news agent and convenience store. The Reposs solution included all the required features and the knowledge and experience of connecting retail to wholesale to develop the two-way electronic link to WHSmith retail. The WHSmith Local Reposs link enables the retailer to stay up to date with the products supplied by WHS retail. This includes a product file with all retail prices, delivery notes for stock deliveries, promotions and special offers, stock order processing and key sales data processing.
IT Governance is excited to announce that its niche IT-GRC publishing imprint, ITGP, will release its PCI DSS v3.0 Documentation Toolkit. The PCI DSS v3.0 Documentation Toolkit provides organisations with a comprehensive set of pre-written PCI DSS v3.0-compliant documents, as well as highly useful desktop tools to help them analyse and navigate their way around PCI compliance. It includes newly developed tools and guidance such as a Document Checker, Gap Analysis Tool, ISO27001:2013 Mapping Tool and 2 licences to PCI DSS Staff Awareness eLearning, particularly useful for all merchants and service providers.