Cryptomathic Advise Industry How to Secure HCE Applications

Cryptomathic has published its latest white paper, which offers advice to banks and payment service providers on how to protect mobile banking, payment and host card emulation applications against security attacks. The paper, titled: ‘ Protect HCE Mobile Applications with Cryptomathic MASC’ highlights the benefits that HCE brings to the market through simplifying and speeding

Nigeria’s SimplePay Accepting Bitcoins

Nigeria’s web and mobile-based wallet service SimplePay has announced it is now allowing its users to fund their wallets from their Bitcoin accounts. In an exclusive interview with HumanIPO, Rich Tanksley, Director of Operations, SimplePay Ltd said the startup will use a payment API from its Bitcoin wallet. He said: “People will enter their details

Ghana Commercial Bank Launches New Brand Identity

GCB Bank Limited has recorded a phenomenal growth in its unsecured personal loan sales of more than GH¢700 million within three years. Besides, the Bank had registered over 1.5 million transactions per month from less than 100,000 transactions in four years. The Managing Director of the Bank, Mr Simon Dornoo, who disclosed this at the

MasterCard Advisors Announces Leadership Changes in Asia Pacific

MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard, announced the appointment of Pierre Burret as Head of Delivery, Quality & Resource Management for Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa and Eric Schneider as Region Business Lead for Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Burret will take up the newly created role to lead delivery, quality

Gemalto Unveils the Most Comprehensive Hub Service to Accelerate the Roll-out of Mobile Payments

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, introduces its Allynis Trusted Services Hub, a turnkey business service that enables financial institutions, enterprises, transport operators and more generally all digital service providers to benefit from a single connection in order to securely deploy their value-added and mobile payment services across a comprehensive portfolio of smartphones and

TSYS and iMobile3 Partner to Provide Apple Pay Integration

TSYS announced its partnership with iMobile3 to facilitate merchants processing transactions from the recently unveiled Apple Pay with the cloud-based PassMarket Platform. PassMarket currently provides merchants with the essential features to conduct mobile commerce with consumers that include: order ahead, loyalty, offers, e-gift cards, social media, and in-app messaging. More than10,000 merchants and 5 million

Global Payments to Acquire Ezidebit

Global Payments Inc., one of the largest worldwide providers of payment solutions, announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Ezi Holdings Pty Ltd (Ezidebit). Founded in 1998, Ezidebit is a leading integrated payments company focused on recurring payments verticals in Australia and New Zealand. Similar to Accelerated Payment Technologies and PayPros, Ezidebit

CSI enhances mobile payment security with Tokenization support

With more payment providers offering comprehensive mobile wallets that allow consumers to store multiple card accounts and conduct transactions via mobile devices, the need for security increases exponentially. To deliver these additional security features, Computer Services, Inc., a provider of end-to-end technology solutions that empower financial institutions to remain competitive, compliant and profitable, supports tokenization

Airtel Unveils Airtel Money Premier VISA Card for Mobile Money, Banking Services

Bharti Airtel has unveiled an Airtel Money Premier VISA card that will enhance Premier customers experience and convenience on the company’s mobile money and banking services and ensure that they get added value. With this new card, Airtel money Premier customers will be able to shop and pay for goods and services using Airtel Money

Atmia Africa 2014, Emerging and Expanding ATM Markets

ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) invites you to its 10th Annual Conference 6-8 October at the Lagoon Beach Hotel in beautiful Cape Town. The event is open to professionals in the ATM and payments industries. Enjoy 3 days of workshops, informative sessions, networking opportunities, exhibits and a keynote address from Nic Borain, Political Analyst, independent consultant