Prosper Marketplace, has ankled Parker Barrile as Chief Product Officer. Barrile will be responsible for expanding Prosper Marketplace’s product and user experience teams and managing Prosper Marketplace’s expanding product suite across web and mobile platforms.
PaymentVision, a leading provider of PCI-compliant electronic payment gateway services, will host a free webinar that introduces attendees to EMV. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, August 12, 2015, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT.
With a highly banked population and a reputation around the world for being fiscally responsible, a new survey reveals that many Canadian consumers face challenges with the current ways they manage their finances, budget and pay for goods. As a result, Canadians from coast to coast are considering new financial tools to help them solve these problems and take control of their financial lives.
San Francisco-based NerdWallet is hitting the big time with $64 million in Series A funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) with participation from RRE Ventures, iGlobe Partners and additional angel investors.
San Francisco-based NerdWallet, a bootstrapped company with more than 100 employees, has ankled a former LinkedIn senior executive to serve as Vice President of Engineering and Operations.
Citi cardmembers now have a quicker and simpler way to make online purchases with the new Citi Wallet. Citi cardmembers now no longer have to enter their credit card, billing and shipping information when making purchases at thousands of merchants. Citi Wallet is available to all Citi U.S. consumer credit cardmembers. It’s easy to get started by registering your Citi credit card at www.citi.com/citiwallet using the same login credentials used to manage the Citi account online. Citi Wallet can be used to make purchases online wherever MasterCard’s MasterPass is accepted, including thousands of participating merchants like FTD.com, Gilt, MLB.com, Rakuten.com, LivingSocial and more.
Allied Wallet recently streamlined their set up process to take merchants live quicker and simpler. Allied Wallet worked to develop a payment solution that’s integrated in any programming language with plugins to all major e-commerce shopping cart solutions. It’s clear that merchants are appreciating this speed and ease because Allied Wallet reported record spikes in business for Quarter 2 of 2014. With merchant sign up showing an increase of about 27% and a significant spike in transaction volume, Allied Wallet is growing at record highs.
MasterCard and First Data Corporation today announced a strategic alliance to provide a unified solution for First Data’s FirstVision platform powered by VisionPLUS with the introduction of MasterCard inControl for banking clients and customers in Asia Pacific.
Thanks to First Data’s latest solution, business owners can access and use information that can not only help them anticipate those down cycles, but do something about it. First Data and LocalVox brings to small and medium-sized businesses the ability to combine powerful analytics from First Data’s InsighticsSM solution with LocalVox’s multi-channel targeted marketing solution. LocalVox’s marketing automation platform operates across every channel SMBs use to touch their customers – email, social, search and mobile – to ensure a consistent and compelling overall customer experience that drives in-store behaviors. The LocalVox partnership is an investment made by First Data Ventures, which is investing in and partnering with innovators in a number of areas, such as payments, marketing, customer loyalty, security, mobile and solutions that support the next generation of commerce.
Datacard has been positioned by ABI Research as one of the top leaders in their 2014 competitive assessment for Government and Healthcare ID: Smart Card and Legacy Credentials .This vendor matrix represents ABI Research’s ranking of the leading smart card and legacy credential vendors active within the government, healthcare and citizen ID ecosystem. The vendors were assessed on implementation and innovation – including global reach, breadth of services offered, multi-application capabilities and support of market convergence, level of security, e-government services, among others.Datacard Group was ranked as a leader due to the high assessment rating it received for its extensive distribution channels and global reach, its market share of e-government ID implementations around the world, and continued commitment to offer innovative technologies to the government sector. To-date, Datacard Group is implemented in 18 of the 20 largest e-government programs and has over 400 government projects around the world. Additionally, roughly 165,000 passports, 10 million credentials, and 5 million smart cards are issued daily using the company’s solutions.
Visa has made a strategic investment in DocuSign to enable customers to prepare, execute and manage digital transactions and integrated payments safely and securely. DocuSign Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management™, automates manual, paper-based processes with the only open, independent, standards-based DTM platform for managing all aspects of documented business transactions. DocuSign helps companies Keep Business Digital™ with industry-leading identity management, authentication, eSignature, forms/data collection, collaboration, workflow automation, payment collection, and document retention. DocuSign accelerates transactions on a secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud.
First Data has attracted an industry leading team of partners that will collaborate to bring ease and convenience to the complex and growing legalized online and offline gambling and gaming market in the U.S. and abroad. PayLucky Solutions offer an innovative package of comprehensive payment services, all in one place and all from one source. Proven solutions include check, debit and credit processing with emphasis on protecting operators by qualifying players and guaranteeing player funds through third party validation and analysis on individual spending habits. The Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo (GiGse), First Data and its partners are poised to deliver the much-needed solutions to the gambling and gaming industry. First Data partnered CAMS (Central Account Management Systems), CrossPay Services, FEXCO, Global Cash Access, NRT Technology and Secure Trading Inc.