Masters of Code
MasterCard’s global hackathon will hold its grand finale in San Francisco on December 4 and 5. The Masters of Code competition will include the winning teams from each of the 12 regional events.
BattleHack 2015
PayPal and Braintree named the $100,000 USD grand-prize winner of its 2015 BattleHack Series. The 24-hour BattleHack World Finals took place at PayPal Headquarters in Silicon Valley and hosted 14 teams of developers from across the globe, all winners of their regional BattleHack competitions.
Gil Shwed
CardWeb.com’s CardExecs database of payments industry movers and shakers today features Gil Shwed, founder and Chief Executive Office of Check Point.
GreenCoinX
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.
Gil Shwed
CardWeb.com’s CardExecs database of payments industry movers and shakers today features Gil Shwed is the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Check Point Software Technologies.
Bella Stavchansky
CardWeb.com’s CardExecs database of payments industry movers and shakers today features Bella Stavchansky, Division President, High Growth European Markets Region, MasterCard.
Ingo Money
CardWeb.com’s CardData database of Company Profiles today features Ingo Money.
Masters of Code
MasterCard is looking for Canada’s next big tech innovation at the MasterCard Masters of Code competition in Montreal on September 26th and 27th. MasterCard is giving Canadian coders the opportunity to bring their ideas to life by partnering with one of the world’s largest technology companies in the global payments industry.
Amit Zuckerman
CardWeb.com’s CardExecs database of payments industry movers and shakers today features Amit Zuckerman, Executive Vice President and President of Global Operations and Brink’s Global Services.
Citi Ventures
Citi Ventures has formed a partnership with Plug and Play Tech Center to expand Citi’s accelerator efforts in the U.S., Germany, Singapore, Brazil and Spain. This program will utilize Citi’s global lab network while building on its first FinTech accelerator, launched in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2013.
BattleHack Finals
PayPal and Braintree announced AirHop was the grand-prize winner of its 2014 BattleHack Series. The winners received $100,000.
Ingo Money Names Former Citi Exec EVP
Ingo Money announced the addition of Dickson Chu as executive vice president, Corporate Development and chief product officer. In this role, he will lead the company’s strategic corporate development efforts and oversee the evolution and development of Ingo Money’s product roadmap and user experience. Chu brings over 25 years of leadership experience in financial services technology, digital payments and marketplace innovation. An accomplished general manager and innovator, Chu most recently served as investor and active advisor to a number of emerging companies. Previously, Chu served as senior vice president, Merchant Solutions at LivingSocial, evolving the company’s strategy to create a new merchant-focused business line. He also spent nearly two years at Citi as managing director, Digital Networks in the Global Enterprise Payments business unit, where he was responsible for the development of global e-commerce and m-commerce capabilities, as well as the development and launch of Citi’s Google Wallet platform. Before joining Citi, Chu spent six years at PayPal, most recently serving as vice president and head of Global Products and Experience. In this role he led product strategy, development and user experience design for millions of consumers and merchant customers, having previously served as global general manager for PayPal’s Global Merchant Services business, which he helped grow from $60 million to more than $1 billion.