SYSPRO Redesigns POS Solution for Retailers

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SYSPRO enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for on-premise and cloud-based utilization launched its POS retailing solution, offering a variety of retailing management and market capabilities. The SYSPRO Point of Sale- built on single source code under-pinning SYSPRO’s powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) software- contains more than a dozen new features/functions useful for managing everything from ordering, through inventory management and transit and on the front-end the transactions, daily/period cash-outs and card-based customer loyalty programs. SYSPRO Point of Sale is an ideal match for SYSPRO ERP companies that are improving their margins by cutting reliance on intermediary companies and managing the end-to-end manufacturing/distribution/retailing chain independently. It embeds intelligence into this complete cycle for retail oriented manufacturers and distributors for order entry; inventory management; and shipping/transit.

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Presidio Bank taps IronKey for online security

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Presidio Bank is set to offer its clients IronKey “Trusted Access” to help prevent identity theft, online account takeover, and payments fraud. The “Trusted Access” platform allows the bank to meet and exceed the new Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council (FFIEC) guidance, with which all financial institutions must comply in 2012 to reduce the risk of online banking fraud.
According to real-time research from SpyEye Tracker(1), today’s anti-malware software fails to detect crimeware at least 75 percent of time. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) estimates that 39 percent of all computers are infected with financial malware designed to steal personal and account information. As a result, online banking account takeovers are growing at a rate of 150 percent each year, based on research published by FS-ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center).

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Green Dot Completes Integration with Green Dot Bank

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Green Dot Corporation has completed a key milestone related to its acquisition of Bonneville Bank, renaming it Green Dot Bank. Approximately six months after closing on this acquisition, Green Dot successfully completed a highly complex enterprise-wide integration project to facilitate the issuance of the Company’s suite of MasterCard and Visa prepaid debit card products from its own bank. Issuance of the first cards from Green Dot Bank began earlier this month.

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MoneyGram to Address 2Q/12 Results

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MoneyGram International will announce its second quarter fiscal year 2012 financial results on Thursday, July 26, 2012. Pamela H. Patsley, chairman and chief executive officer, and Alex Holmes, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will host a conference call at 9 a.m. EDT to discuss the quarterly financial results. A news release detailing the results will be available prior to the call on MoneyGram’s website at moneygram.com.

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Kuapay Mobile Payment closes $4 million funding round

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Kuapay closed a $4 million round of funding with a private investor, which it intends to put towards further expansion into New York, Europe, and Asia. Expansion into Europe, Asia, and the Eastern Region of the United States is on the horizon and will consist of sales and support operations in New York, Madrid, and Hong Kong and will enable the company to offer its universal e-wallet to even more consumers globally. Kuapay is not founded by a major banking or retail entity, and therefore has the freedom to provide solutions across all card types and payment platforms.

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Rakuten LinkShare mPlatform Testing Opens Marketing Opportunities

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Rakuten LinkShare has completed a new round of rigorous testing on today’s most popular mobile devices and platforms including Apple iOS for iPhones and iPads. The comprehensive testing and validation of its tracking technology assures advertisers and publishers in the Rakuten LinkShare network they will be credited for mobile transactions on a variety of devices. It also enables them to develop long-term, successful partnerships that will further drive mobile and tablet sales and transactions. The testing was performed on the Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android and Blackberry. The results show that advertisers are increasingly focused on m-commerce as over 500 advertisers tested within the Rakuten LinkShare network are now successfully tracking mobile transactions on one or more platforms and devices.

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Orange Deploys Gemalto NFC SIM Cards

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Orange mobile operator with over 27 million subscribers deployed its large-scale rollout of a SIM-based NFC solution to enable NFC-readiness for mass deployment of mobile contactless services through Gemalto. Orange is now pursuing the implementation of a NFC infrastructure on a national level that enables service providers to come onboard and massively deploy mobile contactless services. Orange can offer service providers such as banks, transport operators or retailers an attractive, secure and scalable solution to deploy new and enhanced services to end users. The solution will allow any service provider to dynamically manage its own security domain in the card and to load, personalize and update its related NFC applications remotely over time.

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UAE Exchange Opens 600th Global Branch Network

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The UAE Exchange inaugurated its 600th branch globally, in Dubai. This as the UAE Exchange expanded its network in Asia, Africa and Europe by commencing operations in China, Malaysia, Ireland, Botswana, Seychelles, Kenya and Morocco. UAE Exchange offers technologically backed high quality services like Xpress Money, the favourite global instant money transfer service with over 135,000 payout locations in more than 125 countries; FLASHremit, the real-time bank account credit service; Money2anywhere.com, the convenient online money transfer portal by which money can be sent to any corner of the world in just a few clicks from an internet environment anywhere; Smart Pay, the leading payroll solution; gocash, the prepaid travel card; and XPay, the online bill payment service using mobile phone.

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Visa Launches Small Business Expense Management Platform

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Visa launched Visa Payment Controls online platform allowing small business owners to manage how, when and where transactions and payments are made on employees’ business cards. Enhancing efficiencies and transparency to traditionally paper-based payment systems, this improves record keeping and reporting while providing valuable insight into where company dollars are spent. Visa Payment Controls gives small business owners the flexibility to manage how employees can use their cards based on location, spending limits and categories. Small businesses can choose Visa cards for spending control and visibility, tools to improve cash flow, purchasing convenience and access to money saving offers and rewards.

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Chase Terminal Allows Merchants to Accept Evolving Payment Method

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Chase Paymentech launched its new “Future Proof” terminal, allowing merchants to accept current and quickly emerging forms of customer payments all in one streamlined device. Accepting EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) chip cards, as well as phone-based mobile wallets and other forms of contactless payment – while maintaining a commitment to security, convenience and the current value of traditional card acceptance, the Future Proof terminal is available through Chase’s bank branch network and at www.chasepaymentech.com and is designed for a wide variety of merchants and offers unmatched flexibility in payment acceptance. Merchants can now accept- in addition to magnetic-stripe payment cards- EMV-enabled chip cards, which are less susceptible to counterfeit and other forms of fraud, offering greater security and more streamlined processing; mobile wallets, which will help businesses in the future establish two-way communications with customers, building loyalty and unlocking new business opportunities; and Contactless payments.

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NFC Foundation Names Chair & Chair Elect

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The NFC Foundation Board of Directors elected Gary Spinazze to a two year term as Chair of the NFC Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Nash Finch Company. Board Member Paula Docken, Business Analyst, chair of the Community Outreach Committee was named as Chair Elect. The NFC Foundation Board is comprised entirely of Nash Finch employees who volunteer their time, energy and passion for community service in service to the Foundation and the community. Nash Finch Company supports the Foundation by shouldering the Foundation’s administrative expenses to ensure that donations are used to support those in need. Nash Finch associates from around the country volunteer on Foundation Committees as well as for our non-profit partners, donating their time, skills and money in support of the Foundation’s mission.

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