CT-based Choice Merchant Solutions has launched a new division designed to extend the benefits of international e- commerce business to domestic clients by offering affordable credit card processing services that enable U.S. businesses to compete on a global scale.
Forrester’s Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology finds foreign banks outpacing U.S. banks. Garanti Bank of Turkey took the top spot. The bank received the highest overall score among the banks Forrester rated, performing exceptionally well with its new mobile banking app iGaranti.
Mocapay has hired Chris Munz as director of business development to lead Mocapay’s strategic partnerships and growth. A digital marketing technology expert who has implemented strategies for top-tier companies across various industries for more than a decade, Chris will focus on building strategic partnerships and alliances for Mocapay. Prior to joining the Mocapay team, Chris was a director of sales communication/sales engineer at Fishbowl, Inc. in Alexandria, VA. While at Fishbowl Inc. Chris was also the director of sales and marketing at Quotient Marketing, a company that was acquired by Fishbowl in 2007.
Vantiv payment processing services and related technology solutions announced Patty Walters, senior vice president of merchant products and security at Vantiv, will serve as a key participant at the Electronic Transactions Association’s (ETA) 2013 Annual Meeting and Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana. Walters will moderate the panel EMV is Coming, What ISOs Need to Know on Wednesday, May 1 at 4:00 p.m. CT in Session Room 2. With more than 25 years of experience, Walters is a widely recognized payments industry veteran specialized in EMV, PCI and terminal security issues. She serves on the EMVco Board of Advisors and the Smart Card Alliance EMV Forum Steering Committee.
Zynga, the world’s leading provider of social game services, announced the Zynga Platform, a new platform designed to bring players what they’ve asked for: new ways to play and more people to play with. As part of the initial roll out, Zynga will debut the beta release of Zynga.com, the company’s new destination for social…
The banking and payment sectors in the Asia Pacific region
continue to migrate from magnetic stripe-cards to chip- or smart
card-based cards. Companies now have to attempt to make optimal use of
the infrastructure they have invested in to break even or make profits.
Although no clear post migration “killer application” has been developed
yet, the financial card industry is definitely moving toward
convergence. For most countries in the Asia Pacific, ATM, debit, credit,
loyalty and transit applications are some applications that are
expected to appear on a single card. Frost & Sullivan has launched a
research service that provides data and analysis on the Asia Pacific
banking and payment sector. It provides rapid updates, forecasts, and
estimates on several markets such as banking cards, payment cards,
banking terminals and payment terminals in Japan, South Korea,
Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. It enables companies to align their
positioning strategies to benefit from the changing sectors and obtain
maximum return on investment.
NY-based Intelli-Check announced Monday it has appointed former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense and Defense Department CIO Arthur Money to its Board of Directors. Mr. Money, who has more than 40 years of management and engineering experience with the defense electronics and intelligence industry, currently serves as a member of the advisory board of several corporations including the Boeing Company. He also serves on the Board of Directors of numerous companies including Silicon Graphics, Inc. and CACI International and has been recognized for his vision, leadership and commitment to excellence in systems and process re-engineering.