Hassan Usman Appointed Acting Managing Director of Jaiz Bank

The Board of Directors of Jaiz Bank PLC has following the resignation of the Managing Director, Muhammed Mustapha Bintube after almost 10 years of meritorious service, announced the appointment of the General Manager in charge of the Bank’s Business Development Group, Hassan Usman as the Acting Managing Director. Hassan is a trained Chartered Accountant and

TSYS Merchant Insights Allows Customers to Monitor Impacts of Social Media

TSYS Merchant Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of TSYS, is providing their customers with TSYS Merchant Insights, a unique dashboard that monitors social media activity, competition and revenue. The dashboard is powered by Womply, a leading provider of merchant-focused analytics, loyalty and customer engagement tools. TSYS Merchant Insights helps customers better understand their business by

Ingenico Launches Multi-Channel Customer Loyalty Program for Sports Retailer

Ingenico has launched a customer loyalty mobile application for the German sporting goods retailer Sportpoint, through its subsidiary easycash Loyalty Solutions. The new mobile application combined to the existing “go4sport” customer card, offers a comprehensive multi-channel loyalty program in all company’s stores in Germany with the “go4sport” app available in the iTunes store. Sportpoint will

Kopo Kopo Mobile Money Merchant Services Platform Secures $2.6 Million in Financing

Kopo Kopo, a merchant services platform serving thousands of businesses in East Africa, announced that it raised $2.6 million in Series A financing. Javelin Venture Partners led the round with Vinod Khosla’s Impact Fund, an existing investor. Accion Venture Lab also participated. Noah Doyle of Javelin Venture Partners will join Kopo Kopo’s board of directors.

ProPay Expands Global Ecommerce Solution

ProPay, a TSYS company and industry leader in merchant services, payment security and mobile payments, announced the launch of Shop in Your Currency™, a multi-currency processing solution powered by Planet Payment, for ProPay merchants. Shop in Your Currency empowers ProPay’s e-commerce merchants to more effectively target foreign markets and grow international sales. With the solution,

Chek Africa Launches Cheklocums.co.za

Chek Africa Holdings, a South Africa privately owned eCommerce Company, announced the launch of cheklocums.co.za, a real-time e-recruitment platform focused solely to locum professionals and employers in the healthcare industry. The platform embraces the locum industry by encompassing its innate flexibility with functionally rich e-recruitment solutions, making it the ideal tool for healthcare employers to

Ingenico Launching Mobile Payment Services in 8 Countries

Ingenico the leading payment solution provider, and ROAM, Ingenico’s innovative mobile payment subsidiary, announce that they are extending their joint footprint to eight countries this year, now covering the US, Mexico, France, Belgium, Italy, Australia, Brazil, and Norway With the launch of the new international mobile payment engine, the “ROAM Mobile Commerce Manager” (ROAM MCM5),

Trustwave Acquires Data Security Provider, Application Security

Trustwave announced the acquisition of data security provider Application Security, Inc. The company’s automated database security scanning technologies strengthen Trustwave’s ability to help organizations protect high-value data, reduce security risks and achieve compliance with mandates and regulations. Application Security, Inc. pioneered the research and development of security software for relational databases and big data stores—helping

Fiserv Simplifies the Online Banking Experience with Redesigned Corillian Online

Fiserv, Inc. a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that it has redesigned its award-winning online banking solution, Corillian Online®, incorporating new digital money movement capabilities into a simplified, task-focused design. The latest licensed version of Corillian Online from Fiserv brings Popmoney® person-to-person (P2P) payments and account-to-account transfers to the home page

Allied Wallet Partners with Paysafecard to Accept More Payments

Allied Wallet, a global provider of online credit card processing, multi-currency merchant services, payment processing, digital eWallet solutions, and a PCI Level 1 payment gateway, recently partnered with Paysafecard to allow their merchants to accept yet another payment method for international e-commerce. Paysafecard is a leader in online prepaid solutions and sees over 100 transactions