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In today’s CardFlash News Que: FIS (Landmark); NCR (Tropic); ACI (roundtable); and GLORY (ATS).
Visa Checkout Tokens
Visa has integrated token technology into Visa Checkout, the company’s online check out service used by merchants and consumers globally. Additionally, Visa is working with merchants to apply token technology to “cards-on-file.”
GoldMoney Execs
Toronto-based GoldMoney has ankled Katie Sokalsky, CPA, CA, as Chief Financial Officer, and Kate Millington as General Counsel of GoldMoney. GoldMoney also completes the previously planned addition of James Turk and Hector Fleming to the board of directors.
Visa Checkout Brazil
Visa Checkout in Brazil is real. The first merchant to offer Visa Checkout is Futebolcard, the Brazilian service which allows soccer fans to purchase tickets for games in 12 different stadiums.
Bidvest Multi-Currency MasterCard
South Africa’s Bidvest Bank has luanched a multi-currency world currency card, powered by MasterCard. The new card is a prepaid travel payment card that features the ability to load up to 17 currencies onto a single card at any time.
WEX + EFS
ME-based WEX has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Electronic Funds Source for $1.1 billion in cash and 4.0 million shares of common stock to be issued to investment funds affiliated with Warburg Pincus, EFS’ current owner. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to adjusted net income.
Bidvest Currency Card
Johannesburg-based Bidvest Bank has unveiled the MasterCard Multi-Currency World Currency Card. The prepaid travel card that allows cardholders to load up to 17 currencies on the same card at any time.
Team Visa Summit
Visa gathered 25 Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls from around the world for a two-day Team Visa Summit and innovation showcase at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. The Summit kicked-off Visa’s year-long program which supports Olympic and Paralympic global athletes as they train for the 2016 Games.
Constellation Payments
Constellation Payments has launched a new, redesigned version of its website, csipay.com. The cleaner, modern design signifies the evolution and accelerated growth of the company.
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.
Daryn Griggs
CardWeb.com’s CardExecs database of payments industry movers and shakers today features Daryn Griggs, Chief Executive Officer at PayOnyx.
Mobilio Protection
Mobilio Protection now offers independent wireless retailers the convenience of a low price prepaid protection plan covering new, refurbished and pre-owned devices distributed via the epay WebPOS distribution portal.