Movers and Shakers w/c April 29th 2013

This week's Movers and Shakers in the Card and Payment Insutry (w/c 29/4/13)

Frank Bisignano ex COO of JP Morgan joins First Data as CEO

David Pope is named Jumio's European Marketing Director

Yodlee appoints Mike Armsby as CFO

Francois Brougher ex Google appointed business lead at Square

Oberthur names Didier Lamouche as CEO

Skrill appoints Roland Schar SVP Strategy

Lydie Assouline named Managing Director SAB Services

Giesecke and Devrient's Dr Karsten Ottenburg to become Chairman of the Management Board at Bosch and Siemens

Congratulations to all those starting their new roles.

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Movers and Shakers in Cards and Payments w/c June 18th 2012

• CRAIG TILLOTSON joins Faster Payments as MD
• JEREMY WIGMORE becomes SVP Europe of Qinqo
• Charles Neral joins Sungard as CFO
• Tom Allanson becomes Division President, Electronic Payments of Fiserv
• Sarah Friar becomes CFO of Square
• Kenneth Bonnici becomes CFO of Ixaris
• Skrill appoints SIEGFRIED HEIGMARTNER CEO

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Over 200,000 Merchants sign up for PayPal here

    

During eBay’s earnings call today, eBay CEO and President John Donahoe said that over 200,000 merchants have signed up for PayPal Here, the company’s Square-like mobile payments hardware and software platform for small businesses. 

PayPal Here offers a triangular add-on that plugs into the headphone jack onto a smartphone. Merchants can then accept payments by swiping cards with the thumb-sized card reader or can use the smartphone’s camera to scan credit cards (powered by Card.io), scan checks, etc. PayPal Here offers a flat rate of 2.7 percent for card swipes.
Donahoe says the reader will launch to the public in the second quarter, and will be available in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia at launch. He adds that he’s not sure they can manufacture enough PayPal Here devices to keep up for demand.

By December 2011. over 1 million merchants were using Square to accept credit cards.

Donahoe also said during the call that eBay would be improving the marketplace checkout experience, search and discovery on the platform. With regard to NFC, Donahoe says that it will be at least a couple of years before NFC is adopted at large retailers.

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Square upgrades proposition

Square, the independent mobile payments service, is taking on PayPal's Here bank card reader with some upgrades of its own. The name 'Card Case' is gone and has changed to 'Pay with Square' instead. The new iOS and Android app offering will also point you in the direction of nearby shops where you can pay with Square via a map view – though the number is not huge in the UK right now.

Have you used a simialr offering yet ? How has it worked for you?

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