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CoinFlash Demo New Bitcoin ATM

10, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 01/24/2014

This weekend, the Coinflash team will be attending the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami Beach, Florida, giving attendees a sneak preview of the new Coinflash Bitcoin ATM. Coinflash is a San Francisco-based startup that plans on deploying 1000 ATMs worldwide by 2015. Team members will be conducting live demonstrations of the advanced functionality of the machine, which is based on the OpenWallet kiosk platform. The Coinflash ATM enables Coinbase and Ripple users to buy and sell bitcoins for cash, and even pay bills, transfer funds, and purchase gift cards with cash or digital currency.

Payments Council Appoints Cabinet Member CEO

10, Country, Priority, UNITED KINGDOMBy Robert McKinley 09/08/2011

The Payments Council announced the appointment of Adrian Kamellard as its new Chief Executive. Currently an Executive Director within the Cabinet Office, he will take up the role on 1 November 2011. Kamellard has worked as an Executive Director in the Cabinet Office, with responsibility for managing strategic commercial issues and creating new commercial structures in central government. This has involved successful renegotiations of high-value IT service and outsourcing contracts resulting in reduced costs of £800 million whilst maintaining and improving services. Prior to the Cabinet Office, Adrian was Head of Major Projects at Partnerships UK and latterly seconded to be the Chief Executive of Broadband Delivery UK.

FIS to Provide Boiling Springs Savings Bank IBS Core Processing

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 06/22/2010

FIS banking and payments technology has signed an agreement with NJ-based Boiling Springs Savings Bank for FISâ Integrated Banking Services (IBS) core banking solution. With this, FIS will also deliver a wide array of banking and payment solutions including eBanking, item processing, CRM, loan origination, risk, fraud and compliance, mobile banking, image and EFT card services. Boiling Springs Savings Bank recognized that a core banking replacement with standardization initiatives was necessary to increase efficiency and flexibility and would be vital to its future and selected FISâ core banking IBS platform because it enables banks to quickly adapt to market conditions and integrate easily with complementary technology.

VF PAYware Transact & VT Systems RecTrac Team

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 10/13/2009

VeriFone Holdings’ “PAYware Transact” has been selected as the
PCI-compliant payment engine for the Vermont Systems RecTrac
facilities management system deployed worldwide to U.S. Army and
Navy recreational facilities. “PAYware Transact” is a highly-scalable and customizable Java-based
payment solution that supports high-volume transaction processing for
retailers and businesses of any size. The platform-independent system
accommodates a mix of front-end environments â including POS devices,
mail order/telephone order systems and e-commerce. Several thousand of
VeriFoneâs MX 830 systems are being deployed to approximately 3,000 Army
and Navy facilities as a customer-facing card acceptance system for use
with RecTrac. VSI provides software for managing recreation
and parks operations for municipal, county, state and federal military
governmental entities. Its global deployment to Army and Navy facilities
supports a wide range of activities, from court and locker reservations
to childcare, with comprehensive reporting and financial management
capabilities.

CRYPTOMATHIC EXEC

5, Country, Priority, UNITED KINGDOMBy Robert McKinley 10/03/2007

Cryptomathic has appointed card issuance expert David Dix to oversee the
EMV and payments department. Dix was previously employed with First Data
after his roles as business and systems analyst with Oberthur Card Systems
and NatWest Bank. His advanced education includes a Masters in Physics
from the University of Essex, an NCC certificate in Systems Analysis, an
ISEB
certificate in Software Testing and a PRINCE 2 Foundation certificate.
Cryptomathic provides security solutions to various business markets in
finance,
smart card, digital rights management and government.

TNB Acquires 21 CU Portfolios in 2006

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 01/22/2007

Dallas-based TNB Card Services reports it acquired 21 credit card portfolios from credit unions in the U.S. last year. TNB, or Town North Bank, has nearly an estimated $1 billion in credit card outstandings and approximately 900,000 accounts at the end of 2006. In the latest round of acquisitions, card portfolios were acquired from Northeast Panhandle Teachers FCU of Perryton, Texas; Southern Lakes CU of Kenosha, Wisconsin; American FCU of Mission Hills, California; and Saugus FCU of Saugus, Massachusetts. TNB Card Services serves more than 450 financial institutions and manages more than 1.6 million cards.

ATM:ad Hires a Head of Business Development

5, Country, Priority, UNITED KINGDOMBy Robert McKinley 11/01/2006

London-based ATM:ad has announced the appointment of Kevin Kemp, who joins the team as Head of Business Development. Kemp comes to ATM:ad from Avanti Screen Media. His responsibilities at ATM:ad will be to focus on the outdoor specialist agencies, to develop business strategy and new opportunities. Since its launch in mid-2004, ATM:ad has carried campaigns from a wide range of sectors including travel, FMCG, Internet,
entertainment and government for a variety of advertisers including
Essex, Surrey, Leicester & Thames Valley Police, Burton’s, UIP, British
Airways, Fox Home Entertainment, Nestle, Comic Relief, Carling, and
British Eurosport.

Thames Card Technology Teams with Sagem Orga

5, Country, Priority, UNITED KINGDOMBy Robert McKinley 07/10/2006

Essex-based Thames Card Technology has expanded its manufacturing alliance with Germany’s Sagem Orga. The partnership will
combine a manufacturing infrastructure of over 650 million cards per year to service large scale card issuers across Europe. The two companies have been collaborating for three years. However, the new relationship will include contingency and load balancing
arrangements between the three primary European hubs in Angouleme
(France), Flintbek (Germany) and Rayleigh, Essex (UK). Thames Card Technology has more than 250 employees and has a capacity to manufacture and personalize over 400 million cards per year.

Viisage Revenues Rise 37% in Q1

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 07/05/2005

Massachusettes-based Viisage reported first quarter revenue of $16.8 million, a 37% increase over 1Q/04. The net loss for the first quarter of 2005 was $1.6 million, or $0.03 per fully diluted share, compared to a net loss of $1.6 million, or $0.05 per fully diluted share, in the first quarter of 2004. The first quarter report and annual report for 2004, had been delayed in order to complete a review of pending litigation and to assess the effect, if any, on the Company’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2004. Viisage provides advanced technology identity solutions for governments, law enforcement agencies and businesses.

Union Bankshares ATMs Coming to Food Lions

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 07/26/2004

VA-based Union Bankshares has signed an agreement with Nationwide Money Services to place “Branded Cash” ATMs in a significant number of Food Lion stores throughout the state of Virginia. These ATMs will be installed in 34 stores within the communities served by three of Union Bankshares’ affiliate banks — Union Bank & Trust, Northern Neck State Bank, and Bank of Williamsburg. Union Bankshares is one of the largest community banking organizations based in Virginia, providing full service banking.

USTT’s VendingMisers Takes-Off On-Campus

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 04/29/2004

PA-based USA Technologies reports that more than 180 colleges and universities in 32 States, and more than 1,330 school districts in 31 States have installed it “VendingMisers” on campus vending machines. USA Technologies reported that EnergyMiser products had also been installed in various commercial machines in nearly 60 State and Federal buildings throughout the US. Military installations in the US and overseas were also equipping their vending machines base-wide with VendingMisers. USA Technologies is a leader in the networking of distributed assets, wireless non-cash and m-commerce transactions, associated financial/network services and interactive media technology and energy management.

ICMA Roster

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 06/18/2001

The International Card Manufacturers Association has added fifteen new members over the past three months. Among new manufacturing members: NJ-based Supercom Smart Cards and IL-based Innovative Plastic Printing. Among new supplier memberships: PA-based Gilles Leroux US, NJ-based Logika Technology Group, and PA-based WC Manufacturing. PA-based Card Personalization Solutions was the newest personalizer member. The ICMA has more than 220 members and is based in Princeton Junction, NJ. The annual ICMA Card Manufacturing Expo is scheduled for mid-November in Athens, Greece.

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