Payments News - Weekly Wrap - Saturday, August 2, 2008
Here's a review of this week's top stories on Payments News. Back to the future!: for fun, click for this same week's activity a year ago here on Payments News!
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Quote of the week:: From Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy: “Services are bigger and faster-growing markets than food. As consumers look to make every pound work harder, it is a good time for Tesco to expand its presence [into financial services]."
- Amazon Payments News
- Amazon Payments launched Checkout by Amazon, a complete ecommerce checkout solution including payments, shipping, sales tax, promotions, etc., and Amazon Simple Pay, a set of payment-only products that allows websites to enable their customers to use their Amazon.com payment information for payments. (See more Amazon Payments, Amazon Web Services and Ecommerce Payments News.)
- Bill Me Later News
- Bill Me Later announced a strategic partnership with Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP), the airline-owned corporate travel payment network. (See more Bill Me Later, Airline Payments and UATP news.)
- MasterCard News
- MasterCard reported financial results for the second quarter of 2008. (See more MasterCard news.)
- Mobile Banking News
- Bank of America's Lance Drummond wrote for Bank Systems & Technology about the lessons learned during Bank of America's rollout of mobile banking. (See more Bank of America and Mobile Banking news.)
- Online Banking News
- Wells Fargo began rolling out its new vSafe service to customers in 18 states – Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming – and the Greater Sacramento area. (See more Online Banking and Wells Fargo news.)
- PayPal News
- In the UK, PayPal announced the launch of a new prepaid top up card, the PayPal Top Up card - a reloadable VISA card and that PayPal says can be used almost anywhere the VISA symbol is displayed. (See more Ecommerce Payments and PayPal news.)
- Visa News
- Visa Inc. reported fiscal third quarter 2008 financial results. (See more Visa news.)
- Open Job Listings on PaymentsJobs.com
- Corporate Strategy, Senior Business Leader at Visa (San Francisco, CA)
- Associate Consultant - Qualified Security Accessor at Xtrategies (Miami, FL)
- Associate/Consultant - Risk Management at Xtrategies (Miami, FL)
- Sr. Marketing Capabilities Manager - Mobile at Alliance Data (Columbus, OH)
- E-Commerce Analyst at First Midwest Bank (Itasca, IL)
- Senior Manager, Product Development at American Express (New York, NY)
- Upcoming Glenbrook Payments Education Offerings
- Glenbrook's Russ Jones will presenting at this year's Direct Response Forum (DRF) on August 12th on the subject of "What We're Watching in Emerging Payments". Russ will also be participating in a round table discussion on best practices in recurring payments on August 13th.
- Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp - Santa Clara, California - October 15-16
- Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp - Denver - December 3-4
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