Ogone Payment Services, an Ingenico company, announced the new assignment of Peter de Caluwe as Executive Vice President e-payment taking care of the global e-payment strategy while remaining CEO of Ogone. Jurgen Verstraete, Ogone’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), will be taking up the role of Managing Director Ogone and lead the daily operational management, starting
The African Banker Awards, which will be held on the 29th of May in Morocco, has released their short-list of nominees for 2013. The African Banker Awards has the African Development Bank Group as its official patron and is sponsored by various organisations including MasterCard, BGFI Bank, Banque Atlantique, Nedbank and Ecobank. The African Banker Awards
Square has recently announced availability of its mobile POS offering in Japan. Square Register is a free app that serves as a free full point-of-sale system for businesses of all types and sizes from a mobile device. Over 4 million individuals and businesses can already accept credit cards with Square in North America, and Square
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, CON, says the Bank remains committed to realizing the vision of providing Nigeria with a secure, robust and accessible payment infrastructure. Mallam Sanusi disclosed this recently in a keynote address to the CBN/Gartner event held at the Protea Hotel Oakwood Park, Lekki, Lagos.
At a function held at the Bank of Mauritius Tower, the Bank of Mauritius (the Bank) granted a new banking licence to Barclays Bank Mauritius Limited, a locally incorporated wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Bank PLC, UK. Barclays Bank PLC, UK is currently conducting its banking activities in Mauritius through its branch, the Barclays Bank
Visa in Kenya announced the launch of Visa Personal Payments (VPP) in collaboration with Equity Bank, East Africa’s largest commercial bank by customer base. Visa Personal Payments is a convenient, cost-effective and secure way for consumers to send funds directly to recipients with Visa cards, both domestically and internationally. Equity Bank is the first bank
The CNP Expo is an annual event which addresses the challenges around card not present payments and is a meeting place for merchants, banks, processors, anti-fraud software providers, legal experts, alternative payment providers, card networks and others to learn how to leverage CNP payments in an increasingly multi-channel retail sales environment. At this year’s Expo, held in
Online research specialists Columinate have released the results of the second annual Internet Banking SITEisfaction survey, a report on customers’ usage and perceptions of e-banking in South Africa. The survey quizzed over 1400 South African e-bankers on their online banking habits and attitudes, and revealed several interesting trends. The survey revealed that the South African
The first EMV compliant ATM in the U.S. is live and in use. NCR Corporation has begun upgrading ATMs at People’s United Bank with the new consumer card security technology, in conjunction with Vantiv and Pendum, the nation’s largest independent ATM service provider. The first upgraded ATMs are the People’s United Bank ATMs located at
The REWE Group, a diversified trading, travel and tourism group with turnover of 50 billion euros, is always testing new ways to make its IT systems more energy-efficient. The most recent example is the deployment of extremely low-power POS terminals. Over the next three to four years, the group will collaborate with its IT solutions
