ICC Solutions now advertising on http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com

ICC Solutions Limited was incorporated in late 1996, as an independent Company and remains 100% owned by the current and founding Directors.
The initial vision of the Company remains the core business activity of today – to provide simple-to-use yet powerful and comprehensive test tools. These tools facilitate testing on chip cards and chip terminals, and now also embrace contactless technology.

Previous experience gained by individuals working in a Banking environment ensured a fundamental business ethos was instilled in the Company – to provide test tools that would be suitable for use in all aspects of the Payment Systems Industry and that were clearly positioned to enable formal certification, type approval and acceptance testing, in addition to supporting development and internal quality assurance testing. Using formally qualified and recognised test tools for certifications and type approvals is essential for maximum efficiency.

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ICC Solutions today:

ICC Solutions Limited is recognised as the global provider of unique contact and contactless test solutions.

From our Head Office in Cheshire, in the north-west of England, we serve our global client base, with a reputation for providing high quality solutions with excellent customer service and technical support, of which we are extremely proud.

Our Canadian office, in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, enables us to comprehensively serve our North American clients, both in Canada and the USA. With offices in the UK, Canada, USA, Singapore and Dubai, the ICCSim portfolio is used world-wide by the Payment Schemes, Terminal and Card Vendors, Test Laboratories, Acquiring Banks and Merchants.

Our ICCSim portfolio comprises an extensive range of industry recognised test solutions, fully approved for certification, and type approvals covering the functional and application level testing of contact and contactless Cards and Devices (POS and ATM) plus customised Acquirer - Merchant Certification packages.

ICC Solutions Limited is the only test tool provider able to offer a complete set of fully qualified test scripts for all formal Payment Association certifications (INTERAC, TIP for MasterCard, Visa ADVT and ADVT qVSDC Device Module) in addition to EMV Level 2 type approval.

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Our achievements:

The Company has been independently assessed and previously been the winner of the Trade Partners UK International Corporate Exporter of the Year Award.

In terms of Payment Systems Industry activity, we have been awarded “Visa Smart Star” status. This award acknowledges ICC Solutions' significant contribution towards Visa International's EMV chip implementation and deployment goals, helping enable successful migration and adoption of EMV technology. We are also participants of the MasterCard Vendor Program and a member of ACT Canada.

 

To view the latest opportunities advertised by ICC Solutions on http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com, go to http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com/hot/jobs/test-and-support-desk-engineer-3362.htm and http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com/hot/jobs/emv-test-engineer-3361.htm

Principality Building Society advertise on www.cardandpaymentjobs.com

Principality Building Society, with offices based in Wales:

Is the UK's 7th largest building society, with over £6 billion in assets

Has been looking after Members’ savings, investments, mortgages and protection for over 150 years

Is a mutual building society owned by and run for the benefit of its 500,000 Members

Have raised thousands of pounds for good causes through our Charity of the Year.

Functions at the heart of its communities – with staff  who have dedicated hundreds of hours to local community projects

Are sponsors of sport and the arts, most notably their sponsorship of the National Eisteddfod for 30 consecutive years

To apply for a position as Proposition Development Manager at Principality Building Society, go to: http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com/candidate/vacDetails2.asp?vacID=3318

Non-cash payments increase in the EU

According to figures from the European Central Bank, more than 90 billion non-cash payments were made in the EU last year, almost five per cent up on 2010 due to the increase in usage of credit and debit cards,

Of 90.6 billion non-cash payments in 2011, 37.2 billion - 41% - were made using cards, an 8.7% increase on the previous year. The total value of the payments made during the 12 months was EUR1.9 trillion, an average of EUR52 per transaction.

There were 727 million cards in the region - about 1.4 per EU inhabitant - and 440,000 ATMs, up 0.9% on 2010, and 8.8 million point-of-sales terminals, up 3.2%.

Credit transfers make up 27% of the 2011 non-cash payments and direct debits 24%. The ratio of paper-based transactions to non-paper-based transactions continued to decrease, standing at around one to five.

Cheques proved to be almost obsolete in many countries,  accounting for less than one per cent of all non-cash payments in 17 of the 27 EU member states. However, in other places the paper-based instruments still play a major role, making up 12% of non-cash transactions in Ireland, 17% in France and 31% in Malta.

In 2011, 42 retail payment systems existed within the EU as a whole, serving a total population of approximately 500 million. During the year, 39.9 billion transactions were processed by those systems with an amount of EUR29.3 trillion.

Of these systems, 22 were located in the eurozone,  where they served a total population of around 330 million, processing 28.3 billion transactions with a value amounting to EUR19.7 trillion.

Meanwhile, 15 large-value payments systems settled 713 million transactions with a total value of EUR837 trillion in the EU. The two main systems in the euro area - Target2 and Euro1/Step1 - settled 151 million transactions amounting to EUR716 trillion in 2011

 

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Movers and Shakers in the card and payment world w/c September 10th 2012

JAMES RICHARDSON AND NEIL GRAHAM JOIN CASHFLOWS AS CFO AND COO RESPECTIVELY

 

CashFlows chief executive and founder Nick Ogden said: “With the recent launch of CashFlows’ card issuing business this is the opportune time to integrate James’strong payments experience and Neil’s global and senior management expertise into the company.”

CashFlows launched its prepaid card issuing service in Europe in August 2012, initially partnering with the international marketing and media group ROK.

 

IAN HILLIER-BROOK APPOINTED DIRECTOR, EMEA OF SATORI

 

Satori is an independent management consultancy, with a track record of managing business process, organisation and technology to support its clients in managing complex change and delivering critical initiatives.

 

Justin Ockenden, Managing Director at Satori, says: “Ian’s background of restructuring and growing companies complements our activities perfectly. His personality and experience fit very well into our team and I am confident that his track-record of using his network to achieve long-term results will be an invaluable asset for Satori, as we expand our European services and reach. It will be great to work with Ian.”
 

SEBASTIAN KUNTZ APPOINTED INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBER OF IDES TECHNOLOGIES

Ides Technologies provide eyeDES™ which is a unique patent pending scoring engine for credit and debit card transactions.

"We are very glad to have Sebastian as a member of our Board of Directors ", said Leon Dhaene, Chairman of the Board of IDES Technologies. "With his expertise of successful entrepreneur, his skill of transforming startups into structured companies, adding value to shareholders; and his knowledge in the fraud detection solution business through his Neteconomy and Fiserv assignments; Sebastian will be instrumental in building the company".
"The innovation that IDES Technologies brings to the field of prevention and detection of Fraud and other forms of Financial Crime is exciting", said Sebastian Kuntz,"the fact that IDES Technologies is based on proven sophisticated statistical pattern recognition algorithms and methodologies in the complex medical sector is the unique, patent pending, foundation for a reliable, innovative and proven solution".

Congratulations to all in their new roles rfom The Card and Payment Jobs team.

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Global Payments Network now advertising on http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com

The www.cardandpaymentjobs.com team are pleased to announce that Global Payments Network is now advertising on the www.cardandpaymentjobs.com site

 

Global Payments Network is a world-class recruitment / search firm providing high calibre candidates into the international permanent and interim recruitment within the payments, m-commerce and e-commerce industries. With a track record of success working with key industry brands around the world, Global Payments Network is the professional search, contingency and contract/interim recruitment specialist of choice, delivering innovative staffing solutions to specialist and demanding markets.

As a subsidiary of Global Staffing Group, they are part of a substantial, well regarded and highly effective international recruitment organisation which specialises in delivering mid-senior level talent into an exceptional blue chip and SME client base. Global Staffing Network is an entrepreneurial recruitment group, bringing together highly experienced recruitment industry professionals to build a group of professional search businesses in a number of markets.

Recognising that the Payments Industry is driven by change and innovation, their expert consultants work hard to maintain their cutting edge knowledge, making them perfectly placed to meet the exacting standards expected by our high calibre candidates and clients.

 

They provide creative, nimble and effective recruitment solutions which enable their clients to achieve their business objectives.

 

• Card Issuing & Card Acquiring 
• Payment & Transaction Processing
• Payment Security & Compliance
• PSP’s (Payment Service Providers)
• Mobile & Tablet Payments
• Consulting

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EU Commission say yes to Everything Everywhere, Telefonica UK (O2) and Vodafone UK joint venture

Everything Everywhere, Telefonica UK (O2) and Vodafone UK released a statement today to announce that the European Commission has granted unconditional clearance to their joint venture plans:

Everything Everywhere, Telefonica UK (O2) and Vodafone UK welcome today's news from the European Commission that their mobile commerce joint venture ("JV") has received unconditional clearance.
At the heart of the JV is a desire to bring to the UK an easy and effective solution for businesses to create and for consumers to enjoy mobile marketing and wallet services. With EC clearance received, the job of getting the JV up and running as quickly as possible can begin, starting with the hiring of the necessary people and the creation of the new company.
The mobile marketing platform is expected to be the first part of the business that is brought to market. The JV has the potential to transform the mobile marketing landscape in the UK. It will remove a number of the barriers that currently inhibit growth and create a single channel with access to millions of UK consumers at launch. It will provide a single contact point for media agencies, retailers and brands, enabling them to create campaigns that will reach millions of opted-in mobile users. This will apply across the majority of handsets, operating systems and mobile operators. For consumers, this means they will be able to receive the discounts and offers that they want to receive from the brands that are relevant to them.
In mobile payments, the JV will benefit businesses and consumers by accelerating the deployment of mobile wallets and associated services in a secure way. Through the solution offered by the JV, businesses will be able to connect once in order to offer a wide variety of mobile wallet services — including payment and loyalty cards — to millions of consumers on the majority of handsets, operating systems and mobile operators. It will give consumers a simple and secure shopping experience, allowing them to purchase goods and services using their handsets in physical locations such as shops, using contactless technology, as well as online.
The shareholders remain committed to making the JV services open to all, including all operators and MVNOs, third party publishers, banks, advertising agencies, retailers and any company that wants to engage in this space. The partners in the JV believe it has an important role to play in helping to keep the UK at the forefront of digital innovation, creating jobs, promoting innovation and stimulating competition.
 

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Head of Mobiel Product needed - London based - Excellent salary and benefits

Our client is a well-funded, cutting edge start up offering services to banks, financial institutions, payments processors and merchants. They are looking for a Head of Mobile Product to assist in growing the company across the UK, US and Europe. This is a key position which will be the force behind the product strategy and execution, combining feedback from sales, marketing, development, customers and prospects to set the strategic vision and lead the execution on new features and products.

Responsibilities will include:

• To gather and prioritise product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with the development team in the US to continue to deliver a remarkable suite of products
• To create and manage the overall Product Management process for all products
• To lead internal processes to define the product strategy, vision, roadmap and priorities
• To develop requirements documents and use cases for new product features
• Monitoring the status of development projects supporting new features
• Conduct business-level verification and market testing of new features
• Become an expert on other products in the marketplace
• Be a go-to person and strategic leader within the company

Desired experience and expertise:
• Experience as a Head of Mobile Product or Product Manager for a software product (B2B or B2C) consumer Technology Company.
• Payments/Mobile Payments industry experience essential
• Experience with agile development processes and monthly or weekly product release cycles
• Passion for mobile & web-based software products
• "Roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial, startup attitude
• Natural ability to relate to customers and prospects
• Ability to work with different people across a team effectively
• Bachelor's degree (MBA or other Master's preferred)
• Solid experience of leading product management

To view this exciting opportunity, please go to : http://www.cardandpaymentjobs.com/jobs/head-of-mobile-product-3325.htm