Casablanca Finance City and Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to enhance and promote professionalism and professional standards in the financial services industry in Morocco and throughout the region. Thanks to this partnership, Morocco will be able to offer more than 50 CISI certifications. These include
Allied Wallet, a provider of online credit card processing and multi-currency merchant services, was voted #1 Payment Solutions Provider by thousands of entrepreneurs, readers, and writers in the United Kingdom according to a survey performed by Start Your Business Magazine. Allied Wallet was announced as a winner in the 2013 Start Your Business Awards at
Econet Wireless announced that subscribers to their Ecocash Save mobile banking service have now reached 900,000. 50,000 more than subscribers to typical brick and mortar banking services in Zimbabwe combined. The announcement was made in the same release announcing that Ecocash Save will start lending cash to subscriber in early 2014. The numbers are no
Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Group and Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) have entered into a strategic partnership to share payment infrastructure and capitalise on their expansive branch networks locally in line with the bank’s financial inclusion agenda. PCK recently launched its PostaPesa e-payment solution and the partnership will see KCB be the official Settlement Bank
Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, and Barnes International, a leading provider in the development and supply of Chip Card Test Tools and Magnetic Stripe Analysers, announced that they have integrated the Barnes smart card verification technology into the Datacard® MX Series Quality Assurance (QA) module. Currently, the Datacard
HP has announced the further expansion of its activity in the payments industry, through the signing of a global agreement with Accumulate. Following a successful implementation of the IKO mobile payment scheme in Poland with PKO Bank Polski, HP is taking the Accumulate technology and project experience to a number of new markets under a
Free Shipping by MasterCard launches for shoppers in the U.S. and provides access to free two-day shipping at five top e-commerce sites including Best Buy, QVC, Macy’s Kohl’s and Walmart. Buyers simply go through the Free Shipping by MasterCard site, make their purchase with a MasterCard credit or debit card, email their order confirmation showing
American Express launched a new Use Points for Charges feature available in the American Express mobile app that gives eligible Card Members the option to easily and conveniently redeem Membership Rewards® points for practically any purchase, from gas and groceries to clothing and manicures, all on their smartphones. Unlike rewards programs that only allow customers
The Western Union Company, a provider of global payment services, has announced the launch of a new transactional web site in Russia. Western Union now has online transactional services in 24 countries, enabling consumers to send money to over 200 countries and territories worldwide. “Western Union continues to grow its online transactional network and increase
PayAnywhere, a leader in mobile point of sale solutions, announced the availability of PayAnywhere 2.0, its popular mobile point of sale solution (mPOS) for Android, with an all new online merchant portal, PayAnywhere Inside. The Android PayAnywhere 2.0 mPOS app works with the free PayAnywhere mobile credit card reader, which plugs into the audio jack
