MasterCard & COMO
Travelers staying at COMO Hotels and Resorts’ 13 luxury properties across Asia, Australia, Europe and the Caribbean can make a lasting difference to local communities simply by using a MasterCard card to settle their bills.
Humboldt Causes
Humboldt Merchant Services is funding Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) and Vista Maria. These two world-class organizations are dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking and sex slavery.
CO-OP Revelation & Card360
CO-OP Financial Services has beefed-up CO-OP Revelation advanced analytics solution powered by Saylent’s Card360.
Bluepoint Partners Operation School Bell on School Supplies
Bluepoint Solutions announced it is partnering with the Las Vegas chapter of the national Assistance League to support the needs of Operation School Bell, a volunteer-based program that provides children in need with new school clothing, jackets, shoes, backpacks and school supplies. The program is designed to assist students from kindergarten through eighth grade in…
MobiUs Launches New M-Web App
appMobi launched its “MobiUs” mobile Web App Browser. Developed to run apps written in HTML5, “MobiUs” mobile browser powers Web apps and even websites with the exact same capabilities as native apps from the app stores. MobiUs works either as a standalone mobile browser, or it can power Web apps and websites with full native app functionality from a person’s favorite mobile browser, such as the Safari browser for iPhone. This provides mobile-optimized Web app caching for instant access to Web apps even when the device isn’t connected; its “DirectCanvas” offers supercharged game speed and performance; Web-based Push notifications for user engagement; Built-in eCommerce capability through appMobi’s 1Touch digital wallet technology; and tabbed browsing.
MasterCard Supports Future Entrepreneurs With $1mm NFTE Grant
MasterCard Worldwide announced a $1 million grant to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) to support entrepreneurship education programs for middle and high school students in low-income communities. It will support NFTE’s core U.S. school-based youth entrepreneurship program that provides hands-on learning and classroom lessons on mathematics, analytical skills and management and planning. MasterCard employees will also have an opportunity to get involved as volunteer educators, helping to create digital “master classes” that teachers across the world can access on-demand to supplement their daily lessons. Over the past two decades, more than 350,000 NFTE graduates have been taught the fundamentals of becoming financially independent by running their own businesses.
Conn AG Wants Answers on Citi Breach
After Citigroup learned hackers gained access to about 1% of its 21 million credit card files and the personal information back in early May, Connecticut’s attorney general is now asking the Bank for more information about the data breach. Insisting the Bank hasn’t yet explained how the attack happened, the attorney general disclosed he also…
Chase Community Giving Announces Winning Charities
Chase charities will receive grants from Chase through Round Two of Chase Community Giving on Facebook. Winning charities will use the funding for a variety of meaningful causes such as youth arts education, pet rescue, humanitarian relief, aiding the homeless and helping people with disabilities. Facebook users selected a humanitarian relief organization, Chabad of Argentina Relief Appeal of New York City, New York, and an animal welfare organization, Petfinder.com Foundation of Tucson, Arizona, as the top recipients of grants from Chase in the final round of Chase Community Giving. Chabad of Argentina, also supported by UNICEF, rescues at-risk children and teenagers.. The Petfinder.com Foundation works with shelters, rescue organizations and animal welfare organizations nationally to help every adoptable pet find a good home. The two charities will receive $500,000 and $400,000, respectively.
Farmers Market Vendors Offered Card-Readers
Pennsylvania farmers markets and farm stands accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits can now apply to receive one of 145 available wireless electronic benefit transfer (EBT) machines offered through the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture using a federal grant. The machines can also be used for credit card purchases, and training will be offered…
Visa Partners for Disaster Relief Payments
Visa and the Cash Learning Partnership have got together for the distribution of money in disaster relief faster, more effective and more secure. Beginning with a focus project in the Philippines, the partnership will support the development of knowledge and tools that will help humanitarian organizations deliver relief funds quickly and efficiently to people affected by natural disasters and other emergencies. The partnership also will promote knowledge-sharing with the broader humanitarian community through the development of trainings, case studies and other resources. The Visa/Cash Learning Partnership collaboration will rely on the experience and expertise of each organization to support cash transfer programming in the Philippines ‘ a country typically at-risk for natural disasters each year.
Saylent Technologies Deploys Checking 2.0
MA-based payment intelligence software provider Saylent Technologies has introduced
âChecking 2.0. Saylentâs “Overdraft Forgiveness Checking” allows consumers to overdraw their
accounts one time per statement, for any reason, and the bank will waive
the fee. As an incentive not to overdraw their account, these consumers
can also earn interest and cash rewards for managing their money well
and banking electronically. Account360 is integrated with the financial institutionâs core platform
and provides real-time, automated adjustments to accounts based on their
banking activity. Customers of Jack Henry& Associatesâ Silverlake and
CIF 20/20 solutions have access to these solutions through the
pre-integrated, hosted BIG Rewards product. Saylentâs Account360 solution provides a
holistic perspective on customers across all payment types, enabling
financial institutions to understand and reward profitable behaviors.
SECU and Visa Partner for PCs
North Carolina’s SECU has given 54 laptops to the Tarheel ChalleNGe Academy
for at-risk youth. The laptops which will be used to enhance instruction at the
institution, feature links to financial literacy programs, including
SECUâs teen website and the National Endowment for Financial Educationâs
NEFE website, as well as Visaâs program, Practical Money Skills for Life
(www.practicalmoneyskills.com). The ribbon cutting ceremony for the
Academyâs computer lab was held on December 7th and attended by North
Carolina Adjutant General William E. Ingram, Jr., numerous Academy
officials and staff, Academy cadets, Shirley Bell â SECUâs Board of
Directors immediate past chair, SECU volunteer Advisory Board member Dr.
Al Wentzy and various Credit Union staff members.
SECU serves over 1.5 million members.