Companhia Brasileira De Servicos De Marketing, operator of Brazil’s dotz loyalty program, in which Alliance Data System’s LoyaltyOne holds a sizeable equity stake, has expanded into the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 6.3 million and the second-largest city in Brazil.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) blasted the EMV migration noting small businesses should not be pressured to install the equipment to accept them at the expense of more effective technology. The NRF told Congress that new chip-and-signature credit cards without a PIN will not stop data breaches.
U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems has ankled Jeffrey Jones as president, succeeding Kurt Adams, who left the bank earlier this month. A 32-year U.S. Bank veteran, Jones has been head of its Global Treasury Management group since 2001. His appointment is effective today.
Ngzhou-based Alibaba and Suning Commerce have inked a deal wherein Alibaba will invest approximately RMB28.3 billion (US$4.63 billion) for a 19.99% stake in Suning, one of the largest consumer electronics retail chains in China. After the closing of the investment in Suning, Alibaba will be the second-largest shareholder in the company.
Oberthur Technologies has gone over the top with the unveiling of the first payment card integrating a dynamic cryptogram solution. This world-first replaces the three-figure security code on the back of the card with a ‘mini-screen’ displaying a code that automatically changes periodically.
CardWeb.com’s CardData database of Company Profiles today features Equinox Payments.
Blackhawk Network’s German subsidiary, Retailo has teamed with Deutsche Kreditbank to enable DKB’s customers to digitally purchase gift cards for Facebook, Nintendo eShop and Spotify using their online bank accounts.
The number of payment cards-in-force (CIF) in Eqypt hit 17.0 million in 2014, compared to 10.0 million five years ago, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.2%. The Egyptian economy is the second-largest in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia.
The Minnesota Twins are suing Visa and MasterCard, alleging the associations gouge fan ticket purchases when they use their credit card. Alleging unfair, uncompetitive “swipe fees” hurt small merchants, cost jobs and raise the price of everything and can run as high as 4% of a purchase, the Team asserts these fees add up fast to around $50 billion a year for the banks, with profit margins of thousands of percent. Every merchant large and small in the country has to pay these fees because Visa and MasterCard control the vast majority of the market for credit and debit cards, according to the team. The Twins had joined thousands of merchants and service companies in suing Visa and MasterCard in a class-action lawsuit. But like many other companies, they dropped out and have now filed their own suit to end the anti-competitive abuses of the credit-card industry.
ADS’ BrandLoyalty business launches promotional loyalty programs with top high-frequency retailers across Europe and Asia, including Italy, France, Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia and Taiwan. Two new partnerships also mark BrandLoyalty’s expansion into the key consumer markets of Russia and China.
mopay announced its entry into the Indian market with an HTML5 in-app billing solution. The company brings its latest technology to the Indian market where staggering growth rates indicate that the number of Internet-enabled mobile devices will have exceeded the US by the end of 2014. mopay is launching the HTML5-for-mobile version of its award -winning direct carrier billing platform on all large Indian carriers to give its subscribers of mobile Internet devices the same frictionless payment experience as in Europe and the United States. Indian carriers, such as Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance, have recently invested billions in US dollars to upgrade their network infrastructure and allow users in mainly urban areas to use mobile Internet services.
Equinox partnered with Infinite Peripherals mPOS devices to offer a mobile payment solution that is compatible with Apple iOS by integrating IPC’s Linea Pro™ for the iPod touch® or iPhone®, or the Infinea Tab® for the iPad®. Empowering Apple handheld devices with a barcode scanner and a magnetic stripe reader, both the Linea Pro and Infinea Tab work with custom software to create a mobile system for POS, as well as inventory management, asset tracking, ID verification and lead tracking. To date, IPC has deployed more than 300,000 of its mobile POS devices nationwide. IPC will be able to offer its customers remote key injection capabilities on its POS-related devices, utilizing the Equinox Remote Key Injection (RKI) platform and thereby maximizing convenience, efficiency and cost-effectiveness.