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MasterCard and Premier Bank Launch Hajj card

10, BANGLADESH, Country, PriorityBy Robert McKinley 06/10/2014

MasterCard launched a Reloadable Hajj Prepaid Card Premier Bank Bangladesh Ltd for pilgrims and Hajj Agencies. Premier Bank Ltd is a top issuer of prepaid cards for Hajj pilgrims & Hajj Agencies in the country. It has branches across the country including all major cities like Dhaka, Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Sylhet, Comilla, Rajshahi, Rangpur. MasterCard Reloadable Hajj & Travel Prepaid cardholders will enjoy some exclusive benefits while using the card. Present at the event were honorable Secretory, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee for Ministry of Religious Affairs, , President & General Secretary of Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB), Dr. H.B.M. Iqbal, Chairman, Premier Bank, CEO & Managing Director, Independent Director, Additional Managing Directors & Deputy Managing Director of Premier Bank, Vikas Varma, Area Head, South Asia, MasterCard, Syed Mohammad Kamal, Country Manager, Bangladesh and other senior Officials from MasterCard & Premier Bank.

MasterCard Partnership Speeds NFC Development

5, Country, Mobile, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 03/03/2014

At Mobile World Congress last week MasterCard announced a collaboration between Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland, Vodafone and TREVICA (a MasterCard owned company) to create a new mobile platform and accelerate the development of mobile payments in Germany. The three mobile operators represent 80% of mobile customers in Germany, which means that banks and financial institutions can hugely accelerate their ability to provide mass- market mobile payment services to consumers. Instead of connecting to individual mobile operators, issuing banks can now connect to TREVICA and have access to a number of mobile operators with one single integration to the TREVICA platform.

OTPay Integrates with MasterPass

6, Country, HUNGARY, PriorityBy Robert McKinley 02/27/2014

MasterCard and OTP Bank Hungary announced the introduction of OTPay, the first digital wallet in Europe to leverage the application programming interface (API) of MasterPass™. This application is customized to the unique needs of the OTPay customer, making the online use of payment cards easier and more comfortable for cardholders. OTPay will provide consumers a new way to pay online, as well as creating options for bill payment, prepaid top up and person to person transactions. The OTPay mobile application will be available for download not only for OTP Bank customers, but for clients of other banks too. The application will allow cardholders to shop and pay at over 30,000 MasterPass™ accepting merchants around the world. The application was developed by Cellum, the Hungarian company group known for delivering mobile payment solutions with banking-grade security, also a developer of a MasterCard® Mobile solution, which has been running for more than two years.

OTP Bank Hungary integrates digital wallet with MasterCard MasterPass API

10, Country, HUNGARY, PriorityBy Robert McKinley 02/26/2014

MasterCard and OTP Bank Hungary announced OTPay digital wallet in Europe to leverage the application programming interface (API) of MasterPass. This application is customized to OTPay customers, making the online use of payment cards easier and more comfortable for cardholders. The OTPay mobile application will be available for download not only for OTP Bank customers, but for clients of other banks too. The application will allow cardholders to shop and pay at over 30,000 MasterPass™ accepting merchants around the world. The application was developed by Cellum, the Hungarian company group known for delivering mobile payment solutions with banking-grade security, also a developer of a MasterCard® Mobile solution, which has been running for more than two years.

Pay.on and Kount Forge Partner Corporation

7, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 02/05/2014

Pay.on web-based payment infrastructure systems and Kount SaaS provider of innovative fraud and chargeback prevention solutions agreed on a strategic cooperation. PAY.ON is also integrating the services of the Kount Complete platform and fraud control technology Kount SMB into its infrastructure platforms, thus making solutions from Kount available to all clients around the world – from PSPs and ISOs to acquirers and other financial institutions. At the same time, PAY.ON and Kount are combining their global distribution network to promote the mutual expansion of their client base. Kount offers its customers highly efficient solutions to tackle both sources of loss. In this context, PAY.ON is taking strategic action to further expand its existing fraud management system.

Omanye Money Now In Nigeria and Ghana

6, Country, GHANA, PriorityBy Robert McKinley 01/17/2014

Omanye Money whose services are largely targeted at the unbanked and under-banked world-wide, has announced the introduction of international mobile money transfer to bank accounts in Nigeria and Ghana. Their customers can now send money from the Omanye mobile site and website wherever they are in the world and users of the eTranzact Mobile Money mobile service (pocketmoni) in Nigeria now have the option of receiving international transfers from Omanye Money customers all over the world.

DataCash Announces Latest Payment Gateway Client

10, Country, Priority, UNITED KINGDOMBy Robert McKinley 11/11/2013

DataCash, a MasterCard Company, partnered with digital agency Tangent Snowball, to offer their existing clients the benefits of DataCash’s payment gateway. Tangent Snowball offers a unique range of services including bespoke enterprise e-commerce, built upon their open-source framework ‘Oscar’. Oscar is built for flexibility and is used in production by Tata Group, PepsiCo and Carlsberg amongst others. The new partnership with DataCash combines the passion from both companies to provide industry leading technology for online retailers. The collaboration will offer Tangent Snowball clients an enhanced ecommerce service through the DataCash payment gateway enabling a seamless, secure and inclusive payment experience which can be used across multi-channel platforms for both medium and large merchants.

Izyi Payments Startup Raises $1.4mm

10, Country, Priority, TURKEYBy Robert McKinley 07/11/2013

iyzi Payments announce that they received Series A investment of 1.4 million US dollars. iyzi Payments will use the investment to accelerate the company’s growth in Turkey. iyzi Payments was founded in 2012 with the vision of becoming the leading payment service provider in Turkey. iyzi Payments launched its first product iyzico in April 2013, bringing a completely new and easy approach to implementing card payments for eCommerce companies. With iyzico merchants can host their payment solution themselves and still be PCI-compliant. To customize the payment process, a library of ready-made widgets is available, which can be adapted to the merchant’s own specifications in a fully flexible manner. With iyzico, iyzipayments is taking cutting edge solutions similar to Stripe to the booming Turkish eCommerce market.

iyzico Payments Raises $1.4m Expansion Funding

10, Country, Priority, TURKEYBy Robert McKinley 06/21/2013

After launching iyzico payment platform, iyzi Payments announce that they received Series A investment of 1.4 million US dollars. iyzi Payments will use the investment to accelerate the company’s growth. The company founders, Barbaros -zbugutu, a former manager at Klarna, and Tahsin Isin, a former executive at ClickandBuy, inform that they received investment worth 1.4 million US dollars from a group of leading international business angels. With iyzico merchants can host their payment solution themselves and still be PCI-compliant.

comForte & DataOne Thailand Announce PCI Workshop Success

10, Country, Priority, THAILANDBy Robert McKinley 05/17/2013

comForte Asia and DataOne Asia (Thailand) ran a successful PCI workshop for HP NonStop users in Thailand. A guest speaker from Verizon Enterprise Solutions talked about PCI from an auditors and forensic analyst’s perspective. Representatives from all HP NonStop users in the Financial Industry in Thailand were present and learned about PCI DSS in Asia, PCI best practices for HP NonStop systems and how to embrace the PCI challenge by implementing a suitable project, procedures and software solutions.

Pay.On and payworks Partner on mPayment

9, Country, GERMANY, PriorityBy Robert McKinley 04/26/2012

payworks and PAY.ON AG have partnered on mobile payment solutions. payworks develops both turnkey white-label products and modular components, making it easy for payment providers, banks and telecommunications providers to enter the emerging mobile payment market and now clients of PAY.ON’s payment processing platform ‘PaySourcing’ can now rely on a professional partner for future mobile payment projects. The ‘payworks.terminal’, for example enables payment providers to release their own mobile POS solution, allowing small retailers to accept card payments easily at the POS, the only requirement being a smartphone with internet access. An optional card reader can be plugged into the phone for faster processing.

Zebra Technologies & Hybrid Paytech Partner on mPayment Receipt Printing

8, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 04/19/2012

Zebra Technologies Corporation, a recognized global leader in technologies that extend real-time visibility into business operations, announced a joint partnership with Hybrid Paytech, one of the world’s first companies to enable PIN/debit transactions over consumer smart phones and tablets, to provide mobile credit and debit payment and printing solutions to their global customers. The companies…

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