NewsCred Funding
NewsCred, the leading content marketing software announced $42 million in growth equity funding to aggressively scale its global operations as the company serves the incredible demand for content marketing from enterprise brands.
iWallet Biometrics
San Diego-based iWallet has inked a deal with NEXT Biometrics to incorporate NEXT Biometrics’ next generation, high-quality fingerprint imaging sensor modules into iWallet’s portfolio of products, which feature its patented BIO-BLU Biometric Bluetooth® smart locking technology.
BIO-BLU Wallet
San Diego-based iWallet has introduced BIO-BLU Biometric Bluetooth Smart locking technology to its technology portfolio. iWallet is focused on bringing-to-market biometric products designed to protect credit cards, jewelry, prescription medications and other valuables.
AmEx & Jawbone
American Express and Jawbone have joined to give eligible U.S. American Express Card members the ability to tap to pay with the new Jawbone UP4 fitness tracker anywhere American Express contactless payments are accepted in the USA.
CurbStand + Curby
CurbStand, the maker of the first and largest valet parking network for consumers and operators that offers interactivity, seamless mobile payments and on-demand services, announced the acquisition of Curby, the complete valet parking solution that provides valet operators with advanced business tools, reporting and metrics previously unavailable.
M-Password Manager
NY Silicon Alley-based HyprKey launched a free mobile password manager. The mobile app is intended for anyone who uses multiple logins across multiple platforms daily including m-payments.
Holiday Foot Traffic
The 2013 holiday season witnessed a seismic shift in consumer behavior in which many traditional brick-and-mortar retailers experienced a decline in foot traffic compared to significant growth in online shopping. For example, retailers like Starbucks are radically redefining the retail experience by shifting to food trucks on college campuses.
i2c Opens New Office to Accelerate Growth of Prepaid and Mobile Financial Services
i2c payment processing is opening a Singapore office. i2c’s solutions are redefining what’s possible in prepaid, debit, credit and emerging commerce by offering a single global processing platform with integrated mobile and loyalty capabilities. Issuers looking to launch travel, virtual, mobile, corporate and government prepaid products in the Asia Pacific region are working with i2c to get to market quickly with differentiated programs. With programs in market in Japan, China, the Philippines and Australia and new clients coming on board across the region, Asia Pacific is a key growth area for i2c. The office also provides i2c with a physical presence from which it will support its strategic alliance with Visa in the region.
i2c Opens Singapore Office
To address the growing market for prepaid products and mobile financial services in the Asia Pacific region, i2c, Inc. today announced the opening of its Singapore office. Located at One Raffles Place, the office will house product, client services and business development staff.
Credorax Announces New Board Member
Credorax appointed Joshua R. Floum to its board, who will bring to the role 30 years’ experience in financial services, payments, advanced technologies, governance and risk initiatives to further facilitate Credorax’s growing business and increasing market share worldwide. Floum served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Visa, Inc., reporting to Visa Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and serving on its Executive Committee. Floum was instrumental in guiding Visa through its merger and birth as a global public company, which represented one of the largest IPOs in US history. Floum devised the company’s “retrospective responsibility” plan, which shielded the new organisation from legacy legal liabilities and built Visa’s legal and government relations departments to global world-class scale.
i2C Appoints Global Prepaid GM, International
i2c payment processing announced that Scott Salmon has joined the company as General Manager, International to lead i2c’s continued growth in Asia Pacific, Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (APCEMEA). Salmon brings over 25 years of business experience to this strategic role, including more than 20 years in payments and prepaid. He was Head of the Visa Prepaid Products division for the past five years. Prior to that he oversaw Visa’s San Francisco-based Global Prepaid Market Development team. Before Visa, Mr. Salmon was engaged in a variety of consulting and product management roles in the retail banking sector.
Discover Honored for Next Generation Customer Service Application
Discover Financial Services is on InformationWeek Elite 100 — a list of the top business technology innovators in the U.S. Discover made the list by developing a new application that provides a fully comprehensive, customer-centric view and supplies account managers with better data and up-to-the-minute information, allowing them to provide superior customer service. Unique among corporate rankings, the InformationWeek Elite 100 spotlights the power of business technology innovation. The InformationWeek Elite 100 research tracks the technology-based investments, strategies, and results of some of the best-known organizations in the country.