Finalists for Emerging Payments Awards

The 8th Emerging Payments Awards take place in London tonight. The categories and finalists are:

Best Prepaid Gift Programme

• Buyatab Online Inc.
  Tim Hortons – eTim Card Program
• First Data
  Decathlon ‘Sports as a gift’
• One4all Gift Cards 
  The leading choice for innovation, flexibility and security
• SVS
  Tesco

2. Best Prepaid Consumer Programme

• Ffrees
  Ffrees Family Finance
  
  My Card International Limited
  The Prepaid Lyoness MasterCard
• Paysafecard
  Online Prepaid pays off
• PPRO Group
  VIABUY

3. Best Prepaid Card and/or Packaging Design

• CPI Card Group/Boots UK
  Boots Christmas Robin Gift Card
  
  First Data
  ASDA Frozen Gift Card
• First Data
  Decathlon Christmas Box
• Peak Financial Services
  CashCard

4. Leading Prepaid Organisation

• Prepaid Financial Services
• PrePay Solutions
• Stored Value Solutions
• Raphaels Bank
• Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd

5. Best Digital Gifting Programme

• Buyatab Online Inc.
  Tim Hortons – eTim Card Program
  
  Judo Payments and Givvit
  The Social Treating app
• P&MM Ltd
  e-Spree virtual prepaid MasterCard®

6. Best P2P or Remittance Programme

• PayPoint & i-movo
  Quick Credit Voucher System
  
  Peak Financial Services
  CashCard Home
• Safaricom Limited
  M-PESA

7. Best Online Payment Solution

• Allied Wallet
  
  Credorax
  USA’s TransNational BankCard Goes Global
• Optimal Payments
• PayPoint Mobile and Online

8. Best Security/ Anti-Fraud Programme

• Allied Wallet
  
  Ethoca
  Ethoca Alerts
• Kount
  Kount Complete
• VeriFone
  SCA: A critical safeguard for emerging payment data
• W2 Global Data

9. Best Corporate/Government Payments Programme

• Advanced Payment Solutions
  Cashplus Business Account
  
  Hyperwallet
  Hyperwallet’s “Paylution” Global Disbursements Program
• Kent County Council & Prepaid Financial Services
  Integrated Payments Programme
• National Payments Corporation of India
  Aadhaar Payment Bridge Systems

10. Best Mobile Application

• Bank Zachodni WBK
  BZWBK24 mobile
  
  PayPoint Mobile and Online
  PayByPhone
• TEB & BNP Paribas
  CEPTETEB- The new generation digital banking
• Wirecard 
  Orange Cash by Wirecard

11. Best Wallet

• Cashcloud
  cashcloud mobile eWallet
  
  MasterCard
  MasterPass™ by MasterCard®
• My Mobile Payments Limited
  MoneyOnMobile
• Tuxedo Money Solutions
  Join SAM

12. Best Payment Technological Innovation

• Clover Mobile: The Future-Proof mPOS
  
  eNett Virtual Account Numbers
• First Data Merchant SolutionsClover Station
• Payment Card TechnologiesTravel Welfare

13. Best Contactless Programme

• Barclaycard
  bPay by Barclaycard
  
  Carta Worldwide
  Contactless Bank Card Payments enabled on Vodafone Wallet
• Prepaid Financial Services
  Perigee Payments Limited: MAAXITAXI & MAAXITAP

14. Emerging Payments Innovation of the Year

• Contis Group
  Engage by Contis
  
  First Data Merchant SolutionsClover Station
• Global Payments
  truRating
• Kalixa
  KiTTi
• P&MM Ltd
  e-Spree virtual prepaid MasterCard®

15. Retail Innovation in Emerging Payments

• First Data Merchant SolutionsClover Station
• MyCard International Limited
  The Prepaid Lyoness MasterCard
• PayPoint & i-movo
  Quick Credit Voucher System
• Safaricom Limited
  Cashless payment: Solution for Innovation

16. Emerging Payments Marketing Campaign of the Year

• Credorax
  The Smart Acquirer
  
  First Rate Exchange Services Limited
  Post Office Travel Money Card Plus
• Optimal Payments

17. Leading Emerging Payments Organisation

• Currency Cloud
  
  eNett International
• PayCommerce
• PPRO Group
• PrePay Solutions

18. Merchant Acquirer of the Year

• Credorax
  
  Secure Trading Financial Services Ltd
• Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd

19. Best Emerging Payments Start-Up

• MyCheck
  Reaping the rewards of bridging payments and loyalty
  
  Optimal Payments
  Revolut
• AstroPay
• DigiSEq Ltd ‘The payment device enabler’

20. Emerging Payments Entrepreneur of the Year

• eNett International
  Anthony Hynes
  
  Allied WalletAndy Khawaja
• PPRO Group
  Tobias Schreyer
• Prepaid Financial Services
  Noel Moran

Good luck from all at www.cardandpaymentjobs.com

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YESpay teams up with YES-wallet.com

Global card payments company YESpay has teamed up with YES-wallet.com to provide a hosted Facebook social commerce service dubbed YESfstore, a Facebook storefront with integrated payment services.

By integrating the YES-wallet’s Pouch digital wallet with YESpay’s payment services, the companies now provide a platform which enables retailers and entrepreneurs to sell any goods and services via Facebook storefront pages with integrated web card payments.
YESfstore enables social commerce for merchants as it constructs and hosts their Facebook storefront pages integrated with its Pouch web payment wallet within the YESfstore Facebook shopping basket.
The Pouch wallet is designed to store credit and debit payment card details, payment receipts, loyalty and coupon information and enables customers to carry out payments.
YES-wallet.com, the hosted Application Service Provider (ASP) for YESfstore, features a series of capabilities including product management, order notification and order management.
YESpay has recently partnered with YES-wallet.com to deliver e-Money payment service, a cloud-based NFC contactless payment service for NFC smartphones.

To look at and apply for roles in the card and payment industry, go to http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com

ZipZap Selected As SafetyPay's Preferred Cash Payment Option For All Global Merchants

ZipZap, Inc., the leading global cash transaction network, and SafetyPay, a secure payment provider serving online shoppers, merchants and banks worldwide, today announced that ZipZap's CashPay solution has been selected by SafetyPay as their preferred cash payment option for eCommerce merchants across all channels.

ZipZap's CashPay solution, which enables consumers to make purchases online and pay cash offline in their local neighborhood through a global network of over 700,000 payment centers, will provide SafetyPay with access to the hundreds of millions of cash-preferred consumers worldwide.

Currently World Bank estimates that over 50% of the global population does not have access to banking or credit, while Javelin Research estimates that 30% of consumers will spend more online if they can pay with cash. This new partnership between SafetyPay and ZipZap will provide this growing market segment with secure and convenient payment solution for online transactions.

"We are delighted to partner with SafetyPay and enable their merchants to reach this untapped consumer demographic." stated Alan Safahi, Founder and CEO of ZipZap.

While SafetyPay plans to offer this new payment option to all merchant partners, one of the key industries targeted for implementation will be travel.

SafteyPay's travel industry merchant partners will now have the ability to add an entirely new revenue stream free of chargeback and fraud risk, while giving cash-preferred consumers a secure, convenient and risk-free way to purchase online travel services - something not currently available to them today.

In markets where international credit card penetration is low, local payment options like cash are essential. Not only do they add to consumer convenience, but also potentially increase consumer adoption - statistics show that 52% of customers using cash vouchers for online payment were new customers to the airline. According to Javelin Research (July 2009 Online Spending Research Index) consumers would spend 30% more online if they were able to pay in cash.

"As the emerging leader in secure payments for the airline and travel industry, SafetyPay's decision to partner with ZipZap will perfectly position them to offer cash-preferred consumers worldwide the ability to pay for airline and travel tickets in cash,- something this consumer segment has traditionally not been able to do" added Safahi.

"We are very excited to partner with ZipZap and add CashPay to our payment options for millions of consumers who wish to shop online and book airline and travel tickets with cash in local currency" said Manuel Montero , CEO of SafetyPay.

About ZipZap, Inc.
ZipZap, Inc. is the leading global cash transaction network enabling consumers to use cash to make online purchases, pay bills, and top-up eWallets, prepaid cards and mobile accounts. Through a global network of over 700,000 payment centers, consumers can complete transactions in their neighborhood conveniently and easily using local currency. As an alternative payments provider, ZipZap is redefining the payment experience for more than one billion cash-preferred consumers worldwide.

Founded in 2010, ZipZap is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations around the globe.

About SafetyPay
SafetyPay is a global, safe and secure online payment solution that enables online banking customers to make internet purchases from merchants worldwide, and pay directly from their local bank account in their local currency. SafetyPay provides banks with an additional revenue stream and expands their merchants' customer base with an international reach of more than 200 million potential banking customers. SafetyPay also is available through mobile devices and specializes in such key industries as travel and online gaming.

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Amex rolls out Facebook app for Serve e-wallet

American Express has rolled out a Facebook application for its Serve digital wallet platform.
The newly launched application will allow customers to send, receive and request money directly via Facebook.
Once the transaction is completed, a message will be posted on the recipient's Facebook wall providing directions on where to collect their money or to sign up for Serve. Users can also request money using the application, selecting the relevant Facebook friend who owes them and sending a request.
In addition,  American Express has entered a partnership with Chinese payment services provider Lianlian Group, to enable the latter to use the American Express Serve commerce technology platform to develop products and services for consumers and business customers in China.

To view the latest e-wallet jobs and others in the payment indutsry go to http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com 

Wirecard Bank, Lekkerland expand strategic partnership

                   

In Germany, Wirecard Bank, a Wirecard Group company, has expanded its strategic partnership with Lekkerland Deutschland, a convenience goods supplier, for prepaid products and online payment processing.
As part of the agreement, the companies have developed a new payment method for the German market in collaboration with EZV Gesellschaft für Zahlungssysteme, a payment service provider. The newly created method, dubbed BarPay, enables cash payments for products ordered online. Via BarPay, customers will be able to order goods or services on the internet and to pay for these in cash through 18,000 petrol stations, shops and kiosks in the Lekkerland network in Germany.
BarPay is aimed at consumers who do not have access to credit cards or who are reluctant in using other payment methods such as prepaid cards.
Lekkerland Deutschland supplies almost 130,700 filling station shops, corner shops, convenience stores, fast-food chains, specialty tobacco shops, specialty beverage retailers and department stores.
Wirecard Bank offers private, corporate and e-banking services. The core business of Wirecard Bank includes corporate and currency accounts, as well as the issue of charge cards within the scope of co-branding and customer retention projects.

To look at exciting jobs in the card and payment industry, go to http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com
Opportunities include, prepaid jobs in the UK and Germany. Go now to apply.
 

PRODUCT MANAGER, ONLINE PAYMENTS

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an interim Product Manager to join a leading Payments Organisation to work on a new programme delivering an innovative e-Commerce product.
Essential Skills
* Strong background being responsible for the functional requirements and consumer journeys of consumer facing websites
* Previous experience of delivering low abandonment, high conversion online checkouts with large online merchants or PSPs
* Strong knowledge of websites that manage complex user scenarios such as registration and authentication elements
* Strong design life cycle experience - business requirements gathering, wireframes, storyboarding, usability, exception management
* Experience of interacting with and supporting development teams in the building out of designed UI's
* Previous experience with large online merchant checkout UI & processes or e-commerce platform/PSP checkout & UI.
* Or previous experience with transaction based online consumer self service portals e.g. credit card or online banking.
* Strong stakeholder management skills and able to lead review sessions
* Experience of working closely with functional owners to design & document product features.
* Experience of large scale application development
* High quality documentation skills.
Beneficial Skills:
* Electronic Commerce and merchant systems.
* High volume transactional systems.
* Experience of payment cards.
* Agile Development methodologies.
* Experience of mobile payment applications desirable.
* Experience of Accessibility standards implementation
* Experience of user/usability testing process
Travel:
* Occasional travel throughout Europe.

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SENIOR MANAGER, ONLINE PAYMENTS PROCESSING

A position for a Senior Manager with Online Payments Processing experience has arisen. Based in London with excellent salary and benefits.

The company is a  leading UK payment services organisation.

The key responsibilities of this role are:

To ensure that their Online Payments product road-map and developments are prioritised, managed and delivered in-line with the company's overall strategy, with a view to delivering:

• business stability and growth (in the UK and abroad)
• increased profit
• market differentiation and leadership

The successful candidate will be responsible for product demonstrations and training for their customers and partners, providing subject matter expertise. Therefore an understanding of payments services and the e-commerce market is essential. The successful candidate will have excellent technical expertise within the Payments industry, particularly around the e-commerce sector, payment gateways and related payment methods.

This position requires someone who is highly customer focused and has a strong commercial awareness & technical understanding of the Payments sector.

For more information on this exciting opportunity and how to apply go to http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com/