Lafferty Group will be hosting a Management Roundtable in Johannesburg, on 5 and 6 March 2015, to discuss best practices for Managing and Growing a Mature Cards and Consumer Finance Business. Competitors and disruptors in the sector abound as never before, and managing and growing a cards and consumer finance business entails many difficult challenges.
Lafferty Group will be hosting a Management Roundtable in Johannesburg, on 3 and 4 March 2015, to discuss best practices for Building a Greenfield Cards and Consumer Finance Business. With some of the lowest card penetration rates in the world and significant economic growth forecast, Africa is poised for an explosion in cards and consumer
3Delta Systems, Inc.(3DSI), a leader in online credit card processing and a pioneer in safeguarding confidential payment data, has partnered with London-based Enterprise Payment Solutions Ltd. (EPS) to offer Enterprise Payment Exchange — the SAP-certified integration for EC-Pay, 3DSI’s buyer-initiated payments solution. This collaboration allows SAP users to streamline their commercial payments process and push
Barclaycard is to trial innovative gloves that allow people to pay contactlessly for their Christmas shopping, following demand for a wearable payment item that makes paying quicker and easier when laden with shopping bags. In a survey by Barclaycard, which quizzed 2,000 people on their Christmas shopping behaviour, “gloves you could pay with” were voted
Safaricom has announced an instant rewards system to incentivize customers who pay for fuel using Lipa Na M-PESA. With over 134,000 motorists having already received free talk time on the Safaricom network for every purchase of fuel worth Sh500 or more, the consumer incentive plan highlights the growing use of M-PESA as a payment channel.
Avalara, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based software delivering compliance solutions related to sales tax, VAT and other transactional taxes, announced it has acquired VATLive.com, a leading global online resource for timely tax news, insight, and rate changes. “VATLive.com provides a wealth of daily information and expert insight on EU and global indirect tax schemes,
CPI Card Group, a global leader in financial and EMV chip card production and related services, announced that the company received the Center of Excellence award for the second consecutive year at the Smart Card Alliance’s annual member meeting. This program recognizes member companies who reach the highest level of active participation in the Smart
Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, announced the results of a consumer survey conducted on holiday shopping security practices by One Poll and Dimensional Research. Evaluating online cybersecurity awareness of 2,011 consumers from the U.S. and U.K., the survey revealed that more than 40 percent of respondents believe
MeaWallet launches Mobile Business Components (MBC) that handle the complexity of securing contactless integrated services and APIs. Using these components to connect an existing or new app or wallet to the MeaWallet Mobile Digitization Platform, will enable service providers to deliver contactless services like payments, access and transit. “With this set of components, and our
Paytronix Systems, Inc., a leading provider of reward program solutions to restaurants and retailers,announced an agreement with NCR Corporation, the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, that enables the Paytronix Rewards platform to integrate with the NCR Aloha POS system via the NCR Cloud Connect ecosystem. Cloud Connect is a platform that supports NCR’s cloud-based
