SESAMES Awards
The 20th annual SESAMES Awards, which rewards the best innovations in the fields of secure payment solutions, identification and mobility. During this year’s CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS event, 11 winners have been awarded.
Gemalto DCV
Gemalto is taking its newly launched Dynamic Code Verification (DCV) solution designed to protect against CNP fraud to Money 20/20 next week.
Clearent Virtual Terminal
MO-based credit card processor Clearent unveiled the addition of a new virtual terminal that complements the company’s broad array of products and services. With the Clearent virtual terminal, merchants have the flexibility they need to securely process credit card payments in an office setting on a computer or when they’re on the go from their smartphone or tablet.
ThreatMetrix Connect
ThreatMetrix Connect, a new alliance program enabling technology providers to easily integrate services with the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network has been introduced into the market.
NTT DOCOM & FIDO
FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance board member NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s market leading mobile network operator (MNO), intends to expand FIDO authentication for its country-wide network with new FIDO Certified™ devices, and by extending FIDO authentication through DOCOMO ID to carrier billing services partners.
Other Breaking News
In today’s CardFlash News Que: WEX (GraspPAY); FIRST SERVICE CU (Choice Rewards); FIRST ATLANTIC COMMERCE (Magnerto) and COGNIA (IVR).
3dcart & Visa Checkout
3dcart announced a program with Visa Checkout to help small businesses launch their online stores. For a limited time, new and existing 3dcart customers can receive a one-month extension toward their hosting plan on their billing cycle when they enable Visa Checkout as a payment service on their website.
Monitise Q2/15
Monitise reports FY 2015 revenue declined 6% to £89.7m. The loss was £41.8m, was at the lower end of the Company’s guidance range of a £40-50m loss. Elizabeth Buse has stepped down as CEO and from the Board. Deputy CEO and Chief Commercial Officer Lee Cameron has been appointed CEO.
Terbium & MapR
Terbium Labs, a security software company that proactively searches for stolen data on the Dark Web using a patented, privacy-protected, data fingerprinting technique, is using the MapR Distribution as the big data platform for Matchlight, a first-of-its-kind data intelligence system.
Gemalto & NTT DOCOMO
Gemalto has selected NTT DOCOMO for its NFC Services, the No.1 mobile operator in Japan with over 63 million subscribers, for its mobile NFC services. Gemalto will provide NTT DOCOMO with an end-to-end solution featuring its Allynis Trusted Service Management (TSM) service, as well as the UpTeq NFC UICC embedding both the SIM and contactless applications.
Revel Systems Revved
San Francisco-based Revel Systems has landed $13.5 Million from ROTH Capital Partners, a relationship-driven investment bank with close connections to Revel. This was Revel’s C-3 investment round, a follow-up to the Series C-1 round led by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in November 2014 and Series C-2 round led by Intuit in December 2014.
CCV NCR Authentic
Netherlands-based European payments provider CCV is now using Authentic, an intelligent payments platform from NCR’s Alaric. CCV plans to implement Authentic across Europe to support a new state-of-the-art payments processing solution it has developed for its customers, due to go live in December 2015.