Ripple Protocol for Financial Transactions
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Ripple Protocol for Financial Transactions
FOR 44 YEARS, THE LEADING PUBLICATION COVERING PAYMENT SYSTEMS WORLDWIDE JANUARY 2015 / ISSUE 1055 CIGNIFI ALTERNATIVE CREDIT SCORES Cignifi has developed an analytics platform using mobile phone data that underwriters can use to generate credit scores for the more than 1 billion people worldwide who use a mobile phone on > see p. 10 DYNAMICS RAISES $70 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING Purchase Transactions Worldwide 2013 vs. 2023 Market Shares (%) in 2013 Interactive payment card and value-added system provider Dynamics has closed a $70 million Series C financing round led by new investors MasterCard and CIBC. Existing backers 4.5 22.9 43.7 19.5 > see p. 9 1.7 7.7 CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS AT SMARTPHONES Software from Montreal-based Mobeewave, when embedded in a secure element manufactured by Oberthur Technologies, can turn NFC-enabled smartphones into POS terminals that accept United Canada Latin Europe Mideast Asia States America Africa Pacific Transactions (Bil.) > see p. 6 RIPPLE PROTOCOL FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS Like HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) for building and sharing websites and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) for sending messages on the Internet, RTXP (Ripple Transaction Protocol), > see p. 9 2013 vs. 2023 163 153 102 82 8 13 14 27 43 3 11 37 © 2015 The Nilson Report CELLPOINT MOBILE’S MERCHANT WALLET The average number of payments per trip made by airline passengers is increasing as airlines debundle their product offerings in addition to steadily reducing the option of flying nonstop to a > see p. 5 IRIS ANALYTICS AND CARTES BANCAIRES The 61 million Cartes Bancaires (CB) brand payment cards issued by banks in France are now being protected by fraud fighting technology from Iris Analytics. Over 80% of CB cards > see p. 7 INVESTMENTS & ACQUISITIONS — DECEMBER 2014 Turn to page 11 for a list of 47 mergers, acquisitions, and corporate financing deals that occurred in December 2014. TRANSACTIONS WORLDWIDE — PROJECTED THROUGH 2023 The general purpose payment card industry is projected to reach 468.61 billion purchase transactions for goods and services by 2023 including card-present and card-notpresent types. This will be an increase of 281.58 billion from the 187.03 billion purchase transactions in 2013 generated by credit, debit, and prepaid cards with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, Diners Club, UnionPay, Interac (Canada), and PIN-based EFT system (U.S.) brands. Cards issued in the U.S. generated 43.72% of the global purchase transaction total in 2013. The United States’ Prior issues: 1,054, 1,053, 1,051, 1,049, 1,047, 1,045, 1,042, 1,041 > see p. 11 INSIDE 2 – 4 Fast Facts 5 Verifone Mobile POS Terminal 6 Worldpay Acquires SecureNet © HSN Consultants, Inc. 2015 THE NILSON REPORT 8 12 > see p. 10 Yapstone Gateway and Online Processing Commerce Bank’s Toggle Features CHARTS 10 Market Shares of Purchase Transactions Worldwide 11 Investments & Acquisitions — December 2014 VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM FAST FACTS PAYBYGROUP, which calls itself the world’s leading group payments platform, integrates with a business’s existing payment processor to allow consumers to split the cost and pay together online. Between 10% and 20% of guests on vacation rental websites prefer the PayByGroup checkout option when it is offered. Kevin Shepherd is Director of Strategic Clients, (512) 633-7817, kshepherd@ paybygroup.com, www.paybygroup.com. HEARTLAND PAYMENT SYSTEMS, the 5th largest payment processor in the U.S., now offers customers using its Heartland Securecertified terminals, which incorporate EMV, end-to-end encryption, and tokenization technology, a comprehensive warranty that protects them from payment card-related losses in the event of a breach. The first year is free. It costs $8.33 per month per card-entry device after that. Michael English is Executive Director, Product Dev., (609) 683-3831, mike.english@e-hps.com, www.heartlandpaymentsystems.com. FEATURED CONFERENCE Subscribers to The Nilson Report will receive a $300 discount. SAVE $300 Conference links at www.nilsonreport.com EMERGING PAYMENT SYSTEMS 2015 2 Two-Day Conference March 26-27, 2015 The Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Hotel Chicago, Illinois Topics include: Apple Pay case study: mobile payment service, analysis of the legal and compliance ramifications of NFC, RFID, and tokenization; new products, services and technologies focusing on mobile payments, wallets, ecommerce platforms, and business models, compliance for increasingly aggressive state regulatory, enforcement framework governing emerging payment systems, heightened federal regulatory and enforcement paradigm affecting the evaluation and offering of emerging payment systems and services, FinCEN’s initiatives in the emerging payments space, virtual currency supervision, critical updates for mitigating privacy, data and cybersecurity risks in the emerging payments market, the CFPB’s continued interest in mobile services & payments, UDAP/UDAAP, and third-party risks and managing third-party vendors. Speakers represent: Paul Hastings, American Express, Citigroup, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Davis Wright Tremaine, Alabama Securities Commission, FDIC, FTC, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics, MasterCard, Schulte Roth & Zabel, Western Union, and more. Cost is $1,995 (first-tier pricing valid until January 30, $2,095 after that). Contact Gregory Shuryn at ACI, (212) 352-3220, g.shuryn@americanconference.com. Register at www. americanconference.com/2015/727/emerging-paymentsystems. VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM PASSTHROUGH is a new processing service that lets merchants add surcharges to credit card payments. Merchants are sent a free POS terminal that automatically applies surcharges and provides customers with itemized receipts showing the extra charge. PassThrough also provides merchants with the signage they need to comply with payment card network regulations. It uses the payment gateway of Transaction Services, a registered ISO of Chesapeake Bank. Scott Levy is Director at PassThrough, (855) 371-4430 , slevy@ passthrough.net, www.passthrough.net. MASTERCARD has filed litigation in federal court alleging that Nike conspired with two former MasterCard employees to influence seven other MasterCard employees to join the sports apparel company. All are cybersecurity professionals. MasterCard, which alleges violation of noncompetition agreements, is seeking $5 million and a ruling barring Nike from soliciting its employees. TRANSACTION DATA USA, a payment processing industry consulting firm, will resell Spindle’s mobile payment aggregating services and its Yowzall Offers mobile marketing service. TD USA recently completed integration with Spindle’s gateway platform. Bill Clark is CEO at Spindle, (480) 336-2653, bclark@spindlehq.com, www.spindle.com. Jamie Zimmerman is VP of Technology at TD USA, (754) 206-0144 x102, jamie@transactiondatainc.com, www.transactiondatainc.com. UNIFIED PATENTS helps operating companies deter “patent trolls,” entities that attempt to extract fees purportedly for violations of intellectual property rights. It now offers tools to banks, credit card companies, financial institutions, and other payment technology providers to protect against frivolous litigation. Gary Bender is Managing Director of the Electronic Payments Zone, (415) 786-5007, gary@unifiedpatents.com, www.unifiedpatents.com. CORRECTION: In issue #1054 we indicated the value of Cielo’s 70% joint venture with Banco do Brasil at $4.50 million when it should have been $4.50 billion. CACHET FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS will provide its Select Mobile Money app to members of Navy Federal CU to load money onto their Visa brand GO Prepaid Card using their Navy Federal debit or credit card. The app can also manage a companion card, view account activity and balances, as well as locate the nearest branch, ATM, or Readylink cash locations from their mobile device. Jeffrey Mack is CEO at Cachet, (952) 698-6980, jmack@cachetfinancial.com, www.cachetfinancial.com. Elizabeth Dean is Mgr. of Debit Card Services at Navy Federal Credit Union, (703) 206-3212, elizabeth_ dean@navyfederal.org, www.navyfederal.org. INGENICO GROUP’S On-Guard technology has been deployed at nearly 900 stores in the U.S. owned by Stage Stores whose brands are Bealls, Goody’s Palais, Royal, Peebles, and Stage. Chase Paymentech is the acquirer for all Stage Stores brands. The P2PE technology operates on Ingenico Telium POS terminals. Gregory Boardman is SVP of Product and Dev. at Ingenico Group, North America, (678) 772-0596, greg.boardman@ingenico.com, www.ingenico.us. Jim Allen is Group Exec. of Enterprise Product Mgmt. at Chase Paymentech, (813) 3544189, jim.allen@chasepaymentech.com, www.chasepaymentech.com. Order Back Issues / Preview Upcoming Conferences / View Newsletter Archive FAST FACTS FIRST DATA and UL are offering large and midsized merchants with integrated POS systems a one-stop EMV migration and certification program to link to all major payment networks. The program eliminates the need to certify to multiple end points and authorities. Steve Mathison is VP at First Data, (402) 222-6833, steve.mathison@ firstdatacorp.com, www.firstdata.com. Sajeev Jesudas is SVP at UL, (847) 226-2326, sajeev.jesudas@ul.com, www.ul-ts.com. DATACARD EMV Personalization Validation software is now available to manage chips on EMV cards handled by the company’s MX series card issuance system. The inline automated process uses Barnes International’s smart card verification technology. Dan Good is VP of Central Issuance and Service Product Mgmt. for Entrust Datacard, (952) 988-1514, dan.good@entrustdatacard.com, www.entrustdatacard.com. POS ON CLOUD’S point-of-sale service will be integrated with the Apriva payment gateway, giving ISOs all of the hardware, software, and gateway services they need to support restaurants and retailers. Stacey Finley Tappin is SVP North America at Apriva, (480) 421-7088, stappin@apriva.com, www.apriva.com. Sunny Dronawat is CEO at POS on Cloud, (502) 233-8512 x301, sunny@posoncloud.com, www.posoncloud.com. CAPITAL ONE class action litigation in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has received preliminary court approval for a settlement valued at $7.2 million. The litigation concerns 0% annual percentage rate checks. Customers who accepted more than one offer will be invited to submit claims, which will collectively amount to at least $3.1 million. MONEYPASS NETWORK, which is operated by the Elan Financial Services division of U.S. Bank, now offers its card-issuing members mobile money services and card control capabilities from Monitise. Mike Dreyer is President, Americas at Monitise, (415) 526-7000, mike.dreyer@monitise.com, www.monitise.com. Troy Cullen is President at Elan, (630) 443-3238, troy.cullen@elanfs.com, www.elanfs.com. TSYS has released a white paper called “T&E Card Programs: A Revealing, 360-Degree Look at Business Travelers’ and Travel Managers’ Needs” based on two surveys conducted with the Global Business Travel Association. Christina Hall is Sr. Product Development Manager at TSYS Commercial Services, (706) 644-5103, christinahall@tsys.com, www.tsys.com. Download at www.tsys.com/businesstravelers/. COMDATA’S MasterCard brand virtual credit card technology will be offered by Behalf, a provider of working capital lines of credit to small businesses (SMBs). Behalf will pay an SMB’s vendor invoice of up to $10,000. The SMB will repay Behalf back over up to 120 days. Benjy Feinberg is CEO at Behalf, (347) 692-0911, benjy@behalf.com, www.behalf.com. Bob Sneed is SVP Strategist and Corp. Payment Specialist at Comdata, (615) 370-7000, bsneed@comdata.com, www.comdata.com. THE NFC FORUM has made available for public download at its website nine technical specifications after users complete a Specification License agreement. Go to www.nfc-forum.org. SKRILL’S Digital Wallet will be a new payment option for users of Second Life, the Internet’s largest user-created virtual world. Users can send money within the fully functioning Second Life economy as well as process credits from Second Life to their real-world accounts. Christopher Russell is CEO at Skrill USA, (646) 738-6921, christopher. russell@skrill.com, www.skrill.com. 3DELTA SYSTEMS will provide its Level-3 processing clients Bluefin Payment Systems’ PCI-validated Decryptx point-to-point encryption service. Julie Counterman is Chief of Integrated Payments at Bluefin, (678) 894-2643, jcounterman@bluefin.com, www.bluefin.com. Allen Cage is CEO at 3Delta Systems, (703) 234-4646, alcage@ aocsolutions.com, www.3dsi.com. © HSN Consultants, Inc. 2015 THE NILSON REPORT ALPHA SOFTWARE has integrated its Alpha Anywhere mobile and Web business application development environment with merchant acquirer Worldpay. Richard Rabins is CEO at Alpha Software, (781) 229-4500, richard@alphasoftware.com, www.alphasoftware.com. Hunter Menton is VP at Worldpay, (720) 344-4888, dat.menton@worldpay.us, www.worldpay.com. CU WALLET, a credit union-owned payment technology provider, has signed 65 credit unions as customers. Collectively they represent more than 7 million members. Paul Fiore is CEO, (310) 948-1786, pfiore@cuwallet.com, www.cuwallet.com. ELAVON and BANK OF THE WEST have extended their 21-year merchant referral agreement through 2021. Bank of the West operates in 22 states. Alan Newstead is SVP of Retail Banking Product Strategy at Bank of the West, (206) 223-1281, alan.newstead@ bankofthewest.com, www.bankofthewest.com. Guy Harris is President, North America at Elavon, (678) 731-5070, guy.harris@ elavon.com, www.elavon.com. MANAGEMENT CHANGES Michael Fiore has been appointed Global Prepaid Lead at MasterCard, (914) 249-2000, michael_fiore@mastercard.com. Reiner Vanooteghem has been appointed Vice President of Market Development for Financial Services at Arroweye Solutions, (615) 585-9432, rvanooteghem@arroweye.com. Iain Johnstone has been appointed Chief Operating Officer at Semafone, 44 (845) 543-0822, iain.johnstone@semafone.com. Peter Caparso, formerly at Adyen, has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at BlueSnap, (781) 790-5027, pete@bluesnap.com. Tom Boyer has been appointed President at TSYS Merchant Solutions, (402) 574-7895, tboyer@tsys.com. Michael Caruana has been appointed Vice President of Business Development at Chargebacks911, (716) 741-2463, m.caruana@chargebacks911.com. Paul Stoddart, formerly at Barclaycard, has been appointed Managing Director of Strategy & Business Development at Vocalink, 44 (870) 165-0019, paul.stoddart@vocalink.com. JANUARY 2015 / ISSUE 1055 / THE NILSON REPORT 3 FAST FACTS JETPAY PAYMENT SERVICES now offers a small payment processing service to digital content retailers using technology from Cardis, whose patented systems lets several small consumer transactions be handled as one larger value transaction. Spreading the processing cost of a single, larger value transaction over a number of small payments reduces costs for online retailers. Nebo Djurdjevic is COO at Cardis, (516) 374-9500, nebo.d@cardis-international.com, www.cardis-international.com. Trent Voigt is CEO at JetPay Payment Services, (972) 503-8900, trent@jetpay.com, www.jetpay.com. PRESIDENT’S CHOICE FINANCIAL in Canada now offers the PC Financial prepaid reloadable MasterCard, which lets users collect points redeemable for free food and merchandise where they buy groceries. Cards are issued by President’s Choice Bank. Barry Columb is President at President’s Choice Bank, (416) 607-4080, barry.columb@pcbank.ca, www.pcfinancial.ca. FEDERATION DES CAISSES DESJARDINS, the 6th largest credit card issuer in Canada, has purchased the private label portfolio of BestBuy Canada. The portfolio had been owned by Chase Card Services. The transaction did not include the sale of BestBuy cobranded Visa portfolio, which is also owned by Chase Card Services. Stephane Halle is Senior Director Acquisitions and Business Partnerships at Desjardins Card Services, (514) 397-4789 x6502, stephane.halle@scd.desjardins.com, www.desjardins.com. FIVE BY FIVE, which is developing a real-time payment card authentication system for banks in 11 European countries, will use a whitelabel mPOS processing service from Wirecard to power AgentCash, a program for small and midsized merchants that use smartphones as POS terminals. Sasa Sarunic is CEO at Five by Five, 385 (98) 405-414, sasa@fivebyfive.co, www.agentcash.com. Michael Brinkmann is EVP Partner Management at Wirecard, 49 (89) 4424-1417, michael.brinkmann@wirecard.com, www.wirecard.com. EMVCO, which is collectively owned by American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, UnionPay, and Visa, will now be responsible for further developing the EMV 3DS 2.0 Specification and associated certification program. The new 3DS 2.0 specification is expected to be published in 2016. Tac Watanabe is Executive Committee Chair at EMVCo., 81 (3) 5778-8369, t.watanabe@jcb-intl.com, www.emvco.com. CREDITCALL’S EMV-certified payment gateway will be used by software and payment tablet manufacturer Poynt for its new Smart Terminal device. Osama Bedier is CEO at Poynt, (650) 666-0240, o@poynt.com, www.getpoynt.com. Jeremy Gumbley is Chief Technology Officer at Creditcall, 44 (117) 930-4455, jeremy.gumbley@ creditcall.com, www.creditcall.com. ‘A GUIDE TO EMV CHIP TECHNOLOGY V2.0’ is a free download from EMVCo. It provides an overview of EMV chip specifications. The full guide can be downloaded at www.emvco.com/best_practices.aspx?id=217. DEUTSCHE KREDITBANK customers can now purchase digital prepaid cards for Facebook, Nintendo eShop, and Spotify using their online bank accounts. The cards are available from Retailo, Blackhawk Network’s German subsidiary. Blackhawk acquired Retailo in 2013. Retailo also sells prepaid cards through more than 40,000 retail distribution locations in Germany. Christian Lindner is CEO, 49 (221) 569-5750, clindner@retailo-group.com, www.retailo.com. SANTANDER, the 5th largest payment card issuer in Mexico, will migrate to Multos chip card technology. Multos is an open, high-security, multiapplication platform. Richard Cusson is Managing Director at Multos International, (514) 631-4901, rcusson@multosinternational. com, www.multosinternational.com. Borja Serrats Recarte is Strategy and Planning Director at Santander Mexico, 52 (55) 5257-8421, bserrats@santander.com.mx, www.santander.com.mx. See links at www.nilsonreport.com CONFERENCES & SEMINARS 4 SCA 2015 PAYMENTS SUMMIT: February 3-5, 2015. The Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah. Estimated attendance: 700. Cost for the three-day conference is $820. Subscribers to The Nilson Report will receive a 20% discount. (Use code P7T4.) Contact Bill Rutledge at Cnxtd, (212) 866-2169, bill@cnxtd.com. Register at www.scapayments.com. GLOBAL ACQUIRING CONFERENCE 2015: May 5-7, 2015. The Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Convention Centre, London, U.K. Estimated attendance: 185. Cost for the three-day conference is $1,695 until February 15, and $1,995 until April 15. Contact Kevin Atwood at Global Vision Group, (650) 349-1536, atwood@ globalacquiringconference.com. Register at http://globalacquiringconference.com. CARDS & PAYMENTS ASIA 2015: April 22-23, 2015. The Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore. Estimated attendance: 8,000. Cost for the two-day standard conference package is $2,239 (SGD 2,995) before March 13 and $2,513 (SGD 3,295) after that; the price for banks, telcos, retailers, gov’t, and academic is $1,121 (SGD 1,500) before March 13. Subscribers to on the conference or a free expo hall pass. (Use code NILREP15.) The Nilson Report will receive 15% off existing conference rate. (Use code NAWH.) Contact Jancis Yap at Terrapinn, Contact Brianna Morris, (404) 647-0804, brianna.morris@expodevco. com. Register at www.cartes-america.com. CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS AMERICA 2015: May 5-7, 2015. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Estimated attendance: 2,000. Cost for the three-day conference is $790. Subscribers to The Nilson Report will receive a 20% discount (65) 6322-2708, jancis.yap@terrapinn.com. Register at www.cardsasia.com.sg. VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM Order Back Issues / Preview Upcoming Conferences / View Newsletter Archive VERIFONE MOBILE POS TERMINAL The new Payware Mobile e355 POS terminal from Verifone can be used on a countertop, as a handheld device linked to a smartphone or tablet, or attached to a tablet. The flexibility of design also includes the ability to work with they, for example, switch from an Apple to a Dell tablet at some point during the life cycle of the Verifone device. Merchants tend to keep POS devices for about five years. The e355 uses a 400 Mltr, ARM 11 32-bit RISC processor and comes with 128 MB Flash and 64 MB SDRAM memory. The color display measures 2.4 inches and uses highly durable Corning Gorilla Glass. Wireless connectivity includes Bluetooth BLE and WiFi. The e355 is PCI PTS 4.0 approved, and supports all major global contactless technologies. The module (without the frame shown here) measures 130 mm x 71 mm x 14.5 mm and weighs 188 grams. Options include a 1D or 2D barcode scanner. Dennis Mos is General Manager, OEM Business Development-Mobility at Verifone in San Diego, tablets or smartphones using iOS, Windows, or Android operating systems. This lets merchants buy e355s when they are using one tablet or smartphone operating system and keep them if California, (858) 436-2288, dennis_m3@verifone.com, www.verifone.com. Prior issues: 1,045, 1,043, 1,042, 1,041, 1,039, 1,038, 1,037 CELLPOINT MOBILE’S MERCHANT WALLET from page 1... final destination. Some customers might buy a ticket with a corporate credit card, use a personal debit card to pay for excess luggage charges, and pay with a personal credit card for a seat upgrade. Handheld point-of-sale devices are used to accept card payments inflight from passengers who buy duty-free products and foodstuffs. Passengers pay over the counter for luggage service. Frequent flyers might use a combination of points and an additional card payment to purchase an upgraded seat. As passengers make multiple payments in different channels within a single trip, airlines are becoming aware that © HSN Consultants, Inc. 2015 THE NILSON REPORT pages for airline clients, charge a fee for every transaction. CellPoint Mobile offers airlines an alternative — a merchant wallet that can handle transactions from any device, in any currency, using any payment method, which connects to their own payment infrastructure. Emirates Airlines uses technology from CellPoint to store passenger payment data in-house, reducing its need for per-transaction services from a PSP. CellPoint’s merchant-centric wallet also ... benefits to controlling card paytokenizes card ment processing from end to end. details. Emirates uses it to connect the stored data to all channels and Companies like Worldpay, link all transactions to its backAdyen, CyberSource, and end operating system. GlobalCollect, traditional CellPoint’s technology, which payment service providers (PSPs) sits on the airline’s security that manage gateways and Web there are benefits to controlling card payment processing from end to end. They can better manage their customer relationships by getting a complete picture of their activities. Airlines can also improve their profit margins, add layers of security, and expand audit trail features. > see p. 6 JANUARY 2015 / ISSUE 1055 / THE NILSON REPORT 5 CELLPOINT MOBILE’S MERCHANT WALLET from page 5... firewall, integrates with loyalty, payment, and reservation platforms and handles all communication with a PSP. Particular applications or the entire wallet can be licensed by PSPs on a white-label basis. Other users of CellPoint’s wallet include Pizza Hut in the U.S. and railroad operators in Norway and Sweden. Its first bank client will go live this year. Kristian Gjerding is CEO at CellPoint Mobile in Coral Gables, Florida, (305) 206-2336, kristian@ cellpointmobile.com, www.cellpointmobile.com. CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS AT SMARTPHONES from page 1... contactless card payments. They can also handle contactless payments initiated by another smartphone deploying a digital wallet. Mobeewave and Oberthur see initial opportunities for their joint offering in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Issuers in these countries are committed to EMV-compliant, dual-function contact and contactless type Visa, MasterCard, and American Express branded payment cards. Pilot tests will soon begin in these countries with acquirers who point-of-sale technology. Its will give the NFC-enabled devices technology is approved by Visa to participating merchants. and MasterCard. Mobeewave’s contactless software Oberthur Technologies has a and the acquirer’s mobile payment global agreement with Samsung application will be preinstalled. to supply NFC-enabled secure When the service is launched elements as well as the TSM commercially, merchants will support needed to handle and purchase their own handsets and transmit sensitive data. download the mobile payment application from the Google Play Maxime de Nanclas is Chief Store. Mobeewave will provision Operating Officer at Mobeewave in these devices over the air using Montreal, Canada, (514) 573-3287, Oberthur Technologies as the maxime.denanclas@mobeewave. trusted service manager (TSM). com, www.mobeewave.com. Mobeewave’s software also Software also tokenizes the cardtokenizes the holder’s personal account number. cardholder’s personal account number (PAN) when the Manuel Inconnu is Product transaction is initiated. Its data Marketing Manager at Oberthur center routes the original PAN to Technologies in Paris, France, the acquirer for authorization. 33 (1) 7814-7608, Mobeewave has filed for m.inconnu@oberthur.com, patents in all of the countries www.oberthur.com. it sees opportunities for its integrated contactless mobile WORLDPAY ACQUIRES SECURENET Private equity firm Sterling Partners has sold SecureNet Payment Systems to Worldpay. Terms were not disclosed. Sterling purchased SecureNet in 2012. Worldpay has been owned by private equity firms Bain Capital and Advent International since 2010. Worldpay and SecureNet are payment processors of merchant card transactions. Headquartered in London, Worldpay operates in 31 countries. It ranks 3rd among all merchant acquirers worldwide and is Europe’s largest. Worldpay processes 26 million 6 VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM transactions a day in 120 currencies from more than 600,000 merchants. Last year it handled more than $475 billion in payments from more than 250 different card and noncard types. U.S.-based SecureNet handled more than $21 billion in card payments last year from merchants who gain access to its Web-based API from independent software vendors (ISVs) and independent sales organizations (ISOs). SecureNet settles payments into Visa and MasterCard through Order Back Issues / Preview Upcoming Conferences / View Newsletter Archive Wells Fargo and Eagle Bank. New customers using SecureNet products will have transactions settled through Citizens Bank, the same bank used by Worldpay. Top competitors of SecureNet include Braintree and Stripe. These firms also offer cloud-based services that integrate point-of-sale, mobile, and e-commerce payment processing, inventory management, and data analytics for merchants. SecureNet goes further by adding end-to-end encryption and tokenization. Worldpay US, like its parent company in the U.K., has been a traditional payment processor. That business, which is identified with dedicated POS terminals, is losing ground to multichannel payment integration that enables businesses to accept payments in every way their customers want to pay. Worldpay US will offer SecureNet products to its existing customers. The SecureNet brand will be phased out over time. Brent Warrington is Head of Strategic Channels at Worldpay in Austin, Texas, (512) 693-4800, brent.warrington@securenet.com, www.securenet.com. ... 26 mil. transactions a day from more than 600,000 merchants. Chester Ritchie is Head of Market Development & Strategy at Worldpay US in Atlanta, Georgia, (949) 3063234, chester.ritchie@worldpay.us, www.worldpay.us. IRIS ANALYTICS AND CARTES BANCAIRES from page 1... are co-branded with Visa and MasterCard brands. However, when transactions occur in France, which is about 42% of all POS and ATM transactions on CB cards, authorization messages route through a node operated by a CB technology company subsidiary called Société d’Exploitation de Réseaux et de Services Sécurisés (SER2S). Iris Analytics technology installed at the SER2S data centers examine all domestic cardholder and merchant activity passing through that node in real time. This year more than 5.00 billion transactions will receive Iris fraud scores, which are delivered in less than 5 © HSN Consultants, Inc. 2015 THE NILSON REPORT milliseconds per transaction even at peak times when SER2S is handling 4,000 transactions per second. French card issuers have been using chip & PIN security since the 1990s and adopted EMV technology in 2003. EMVcompliant cards are effective protection against counterfeit transactions at the point of sale, however, they do not guard against the steadily increasing number of card-not-present (CNP) transactions on CB cards. In addition, they can’t protect against purchases made with lost or stolen cards in France if the thief has somehow also obtained the cardholder’s PIN. France, which has the second highest card fraud problem in the European Union behind the U.K., has seen steady increases in lost/ stolen cards in recent years. CNP transactions on CB cards have been growing and are expected to account for 7% of all transactions this year. The Iris platform lets Cartes Bancaires’ staff completely manage all fraud fighting decision models through a browser-based user interface that manipulates built-in machine intelligence. SER2S was formed in 2010. It connects to 1.8 million merchants and 58,500 ATMs. Nikolaus Bayer is Managing Director at Iris Analytics GmbH in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, 49 (6102) 560-5802, nb@iris.de, www.iris-analytics.com. Pierre Juhen is CEO at SER2S in Paris, France, 33 (1) 5523-3102, pierre-juhen@e-rsb.com, www.e-rsb.com. JANUARY 2015 / ISSUE 1055 / THE NILSON REPORT 7 DYNAMICS RAISES $70 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING from page 1... Bain Capital Ventures and Adams Capital Management also participated. Total funding received by Dynamics since 2011 is $110 million. Cards developed and manufactured by Dynamics contain 10 chips, a battery, and more than 100 electrical components that manage more than 40,000 lines of code. No other battery-operated interactive payment card on the market matches the technological sophistication. Dynamics has been developing these cards for five years. Last year they were made EMV-compliant and contactless-compatible. The first contactless EMV product was for Canada’s CIBC — a co-branded Visa card for quick service restaurant Tim Hortons. The Tim Hortons card also uses Dynamics’ loyalty/ rewards service, which takes data from authorization messages to mag-stripe, which will protect offer real-time account updates. cards from skimming. Data is sent by the issuer’s Financial backing from account processor such as TSYS MasterCard is part of a larger or First Data to one of the centers alliance between the two operated by Dynamics in Nevada companies. MasterCard believes or Pennsylvania. The Dynamics Dynamics (and other providers loyalty/rewards service, which also of battery-operated interactive handles chargeback adjustments, cards) are offering innovative is available to issuers who don’t product and security features deploy the company’s card. for select customer segments Dynamics manufactures cards and countries where the legacy in a MasterCard and Visa certified card infrastructure is expected plant in Pittsburgh using a fully to function for a fairly long time. automated process that includes Battery-operated MasterCard robotic technology. The Series cards are issued in Belgium, C funds will be used to increase Singapore, and Poland. the company’s manufacturing Financial backing from Mastercapacity as Card is part of a larger alliance. well as extend its technical capabilities and product lines. Carlos Menendez is Group New security features for Executive, Global Credit and Debit Dynamics cards will be launched Products at MasterCard in London, this year. Cardholders will be able U.K., 44 (207) 557-5090, carlos_ to use a code to lock and unlock menendez@mastercard.com, the card’s keypad, allowing them www.mastercard.com. to turn on or off the magnetic Jeff Mullen is CEO at Dynamics stripe and/or EMV chip. In the in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, (724) off position there is no data on 274-6484, jeff@dynamicsinc.com, the stripe or chip. There will be www.dynamicsinc.com. a dynamic CVV II code, which can be used for online purchases, Prior issues: 1,022, 963, 603, 566 and a dynamic CVV I code for the YAPSTONE GATEWAY AND ONLINE PROCESSING Privately held Yapstone processed more than $9.00 billion in card (60%) and automated clearinghouse (ACH) payments (40%) last year. All transactions are high margin, and most are also recurring. Nearly all were initiated online. Over 95% occurred within the U.S. The others originated in the U.K., 8 VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM Ireland, France, Germany, and Spain. Merchant acquiring partners of Yapstone are Vantiv and Chase Paymentech in the U.S. and Global Payments in Europe. ACH settlement in the U.S. is handled by Profit Stars. Yapstone, which is both a gateway and a processor, is minority owned by private equity firms Accel Partners and Meritech Capital. Those companies invested $50 million in 2011. By that time, Yapstone, which had more than $120 million in revenues (up 40%) last year, was already profitable. Another equity Order Back Issues / Preview Upcoming Conferences / View Newsletter Archive financing round is expected later this year, with profits expected to grow by 40%. Yapstone focuses on recurring payments markets, which have been check-based and where consumers are willing to pay a fee to make an electronic payment, including apartment rentals, vacation rentals, homeowner associations, marketplaces, self storage, and nonprofit (faith-based and secular) organizations. The average transaction amount is $850. All transactions are high margin, and most are also recurring. In addition to a payments app clients can install at their websites, Yapstone offers a fully encrypted virtual terminal Web link as well as mobile and social network channel links. Consumers can pay online, from a mobile app (including scanned check), via email, using an IVR, via text message, or in person. Yapstone is a Level 1, PCI-compliant processor. All technology is built in-house and includes reporting systems aimed at providing customers with more detail than they would receive from a company offering only payment processing. Customers can configure descriptions of payments at the line-item level. The platform also integrates with clients’ reconciliation and billing processes. For most clients Yapstone also handles all payment-related customer service calls using a staff of 100 people, aimed at creating differentiation versus potential competitors. Yapstone can handle payments in U.S. dollars, British pounds, euros, and Canadian dollars. Clients can determine settlement currency. Yapstone also employs 20 people in Ireland. They are helping to push the company’s growth in Europe into many of the same markets penetrated in the U.S. Thomas Villante is Chairman at Yapstone in Walnut Creek, California, (310) 351-6932, tvillante@yapstone.com, www.yapstone.com. Prior issues: 975, 918, 899, 897 RIPPLE PROTOCOL FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS from page 1... which was created by Ripple Labs, is free, open source software that standardizes rules and messages. RTXP is designed for trading and settlement of interbank payments over distributed networks. Ripple Labs calls RTXP email for money. Existing interbank payment systems, money transfer companies, card networks, Earthport, clearinghouses, and exchanges are centrally designed, and provide messaging logic, business rules, dispute resolution, and risk management for participants. Ripple is not a payment system. Instead, it can be used to upgrade the movement of funds within any existing payment © HSN Consultants, Inc. 2015 THE NILSON REPORT public database of account balances and offers to trade currencies. All network participants can view the ledger. Changes to the ledger are agreed to by the network participants. Ripple Labs calls this process consensus. The global account balancing within the ledger is reconciled within seconds through decentralized transaction settlement created by Ripple Labs’ engineers. Ripple users can hold balances Transactions are processed in any currency or simultaneously, not sequentially. commodity, while sending payment instructions in another currency RTXP-based accounting can be or commodity. The currency fully settled in seconds, allowing exchange is handled by entities recipients instant access to funds. Ripple Labs calls market makers, Currency exchange, if included, who advertise their bids and offers occurs at no extra charge. Banks in order books and broadcast to operate Ripple software on their local servers to create a shared > see p. 10 system’s settlement function or can be used in the creation of new competitors to legacy systems. The aim is to reduce the marginal processing costs of financial transactions at the settlement level between businesses and consumers and between businesses and other businesses, particularly crossborder payments. Ripple can also facilitate currency exchange if transactions require that function. JANUARY 2015 / ISSUE 1055 / THE NILSON REPORT 9 RIPPLE PROTOCOL FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS from page 9... the protocol the rates at which they will do business. Payment requests are routed to the best available rates using algorithms created by Ripple. Neither the sender nor recipient in a Ripple transaction needs to have a relationship with the market maker handling the currency conversion portion of the accounting. Ripple Network transactions have counterparty risk in the same way legacy system transactions do. All instruments are claims against the issuer. What is novel about Ripple is that transactions are processed simultaneously, not sequentially. Ripple changes all accounts in a transaction at the same moment. There is no possibility that party A pays party B, but party B fails to pay party A. Fiat money, the legal tender of any nation, enters the Ripple Network at a gateway, which is either a financial institution or a business such as a money transfer firm. Gateway firms redeem balances on the Ripple Network, converting Ripple currency back to fiat currency. Ripple Labs, which is venture funded by Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, IDG Capital Partners, and other investors, does not act as the central operator. Ripple Labs earns revenue from professional services delivered to network operators such as Earthport. And Ripple Labs also earns revenue from building software that connects RTXP to legacy systems. Clients integrate Ripple accounting into their payment systems. Patrick Griffin is Head of Business Development at Ripple Labs, Inc. in San Francisco, California, (718) 696-7954, patrick@ripple.com, www.ripple.com. TRANSACTIONS WORLDWIDE — PROJECTED THROUGH 2023 from page 1... market share is projected to fall to 34.69% by 2023, even though the Market Shares of Purchase Transactions Worldwide with Change in Basis Points Asia Pacific +1,302 U.S. -902 2023 32% 19% 35% 2% 2013 MEA +64 23% 2% 44% Canada -167 8% 4% Europe -110 ©2015 The Nilson Report 22% 6% 3% Latin America -187 region is projected to gain 80.81 billion transactions to reach 162.57 billion. Cards issued in Europe generated 22.94% of the global total in 2013. Europe’s share is projected to fall to 21.84% of the world total by 2023, even though the region is projected to gain 59.44 billion transactions to reach 102.34 billion. Asia–Pacific’s 19.52% share in 2013 is projected to reach 32.55% of the global total by 2023. Purchase transactions totaled 36.52 billion in 2013, behind both Europe and the United States, but are projected to reach 152.52 billion in 2023, an increase of 116.00 billion. This is projected to be the largest increase among the regions, and the total is expected to surpass Europe to become the second largest region behind the United States. Latin America’s 7.68% share in 2013 is projected to drop to 5.81% in 2023 when purchase transactions are projected to reach 27.25 billion, an increase of 12.88 billion. Canada’s 4.49% share in 2013 is expected to fall to 2.82% of the world total by 2023 when transactions are projected to reach 13.20 billion, an increase of 4.80 billion. Middle East/Africa’s share of 1.66% at the end of 2013 will grow to 2.29% of the global total by the end of 2023 as transactions are projected to reach 10.74 billion, an increase of 7.64 billion. CIGNIFI ALTERNATIVE CREDIT SCORES from page 1... a prepaid basis but have no history with a financial services product such as insurance, credit card, savings account, or installment loan to help predict risk. The Cignifi platform was developed by a team of behavioral mathematicians and data scientists who state they can perform analysis on as little as 10 VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM four weeks of calling history to determine credit risk. The technology examines voice, text, and data messages, which Cignifi says effectively approximates a consumer’s lifestyle. It takes huge data sets and adds data mining algorithms to identify prospects for financial products as well as marketing messages. Order Back Issues / Preview Upcoming Conferences / View Newsletter Archive All data is anonymized to protect the identity of the telecom customers. The algorithms create clusters of behavior, which illuminate prospects. The clusters are determined by processing more than 500 attributes derived from calling and texting patterns ... determined by processing 500+ calling and texting patterns. such as time of day, number of calls and unique recipients, location, and more. In Brazil, Cignifi is working for a credit card issuer and mobile network operator (MNO) to generate leads for new card accounts. In Ghana it is working with an MNO to identify prospects for personal savings and insurance products. Cignifi, which also has customers in Mexico and the Philippines, could be used by underwriters in developed markets to identify prospects beyond those available after a review of files at credit bureaus. Venture funding investors for Cignifi, which has received Series A and Series B rounds, includes Omidyar Network and American Express Ventures, which is also a commercial partner. Venture funds are being used to create capacity for the cloud-based platform and to expand to new markets. Cignifi is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has offices in São Paulo, Mexico City, Manila, and Accra. Jonathan Hakim is CEO at Cignifi Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (617) 859-6989, jhakim@cignifi.com, www.cignifi.com. Investments & Acquisitions December 2014 Company Buyer/Investor Amount (mil.) Country 3V Transaction Services 99Bill Adyen Akimbo Financial Altpay Amara Tech. Africa Avra BitGold Biz2Credit Bluefin Payment Sys. Bongo Solutions Bonusley ChangeTip CorFire CreditGuard Datalogix Dynacart Solutions Dynamics EchoSat Communications GFG GiftCardsIndia Giftery GlobalPay Global Payments/BPI GoCoin LaunchKey MBNA Mobitize Nok Nok Labs OpenJaw Technologies SafeCharge1 Dalian Wanda2 Series B3 Payment Data Solutions1 undisclosed equity round4 Wirecard1 seed funding5 Series A6 capital agreement7 debt/equity8 Fedex1 seed funding9 seed funding10 Mozido2 SafeCharge1 Oracle1 Kohli Ventures1 Series C11 Wimsett & Co.1 Wirecard1 undisclosed round12 GiftCardsIndia1 Keyware Tech.1 joint venture13 undisclosed round14 seed funding15 Virgin Money16 private equity17 Series C18 GuestLogix1 $16.8 * $250.0 $3.0 $1.0 $44.8 $0.2 $3.5 $250.0 * * $1.0 $3.5 * $8.0 * * $70.0 * $39.9 * * * * * $3.0 $570.0 $0.5 $8.3 $41.2 U.K. China Netherlands U.S. U.S. So. Africa U.S. Canada U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Israel U.S. Ireland U.S. U.S. New Zealand India India Belgium Philippines Canada U.S. U.K. U.S. U.S. Ireland © HSN Consultants, Inc. 2015 THE NILSON REPORT Company Buyer/Investor Amount (mil.) Country P97 Networks PayClip PayHub PayOne Paytrail PeerNova Prairie Cloudware Prairie Cloudware Prismah Loyalty Quoine QwikCilver Solutions Simply Tapp Stripe Tappr Triotech Solutions Valitor Wallaby Financial Series A19 undisclosed round20 SignaPay1 DSV Group21 Nets22 Series A23 debt venture equity24 capital raise4 Multiplus25 angel funding4 undisclosed round26 Series B27 undisclosed round28 Series A4 undisclosed round29 Arion Bank30 Bankrate1 $8.0 $5.2 * * * $8.6 $6.0 $3.2 * $2.0 $10.0 $5.9 $70.0 * $3.0 $27.7 * U.S. Mexico U.S. Germany Finland U.S. U.S. U.S. Brazil Singapore India U.S. U.S. U.S. India Iceland U.S. *Terms not disclosed. (1) Acquisition. (2) Purchased controlling interest. (3) Led by General Atlantic. (4) Family office investors. (5) Unnamed investor(s). (6) Led by PortVesta Holdings. (7) From Direct Lending Investments. (8) Led by Goldman Sachs. (9) From Bloomberg Beta and First Mark Capital. (10) Led by Partera Capital. (11) Led by MasterCard and CIBC. (12) From Blume & Rajan. (13) Merchant services joint venture. (14) From GAW Miners. (15) Led by Metamorphic Ventures. (16) Purchased credit card portfolio. (17) Unnamed buyer(s). (18) Led by DCM Ventures. (19) Including Emerald Technology Ventures. (20) Led by Alta Ventures. (21) Purchased 80% stake. (22) Purchased 80% ownership. (23) Led by Mosaik Partners. (24) Led by Invest Nebraska. (25) Acquired the remaining 50% from Aimia. (26) Led by Amazon. (27) Including Blue Sky Capital. (28) Led by Thrive Capital. (29) From BlueHill Asset Mgmt. (30) Purchased Landsbankinn’s 38% stake. Note: An error left one transaction off the November chart — Xpient Solutions was acquired by Heartland Payment Systems in the U.S. The amount was not disclosed. © 2015 The Nilson Report JANUARY 2015 / ISSUE 1055 / THE NILSON REPORT 11 © 2015 HSN Consultants, Inc. THE NILSON REPORT All Rights Reserved. Reproducing or allowing reproduction or dissemination of any portion of this newsletter in any manner for any purpose is strictly prohibited and may violate the intellectual property rights of HSN Consultants, Inc. dba The Nilson Report. COMMERCE BANK’S TOGGLE FEATURES Commerce Bank is the 26th largest U.S. Visa/MasterCard credit card issuer. Its portfolio is heavily weighted with revolving credit users, and cardholders in the revolving cycle don’t want to add new everydaytype purchases to their existing balances because they would have to pay finance charges on them. Research revealed that Commerce cardholders use credit cards from other issuers for spending they intend to pay off every month. This limits growth in new purchase volume for Commerce, denying the bank interchange fee revenue. To address that problem Commerce has introduced a suite of features it calls toggle, which consumer cardholders can use to consolidate all of their spending on their Commerce credit card without incurring any unwanted finance charges or other costs on select new purchases. Toggle is an online card spending management tool available to all existing at any time and the new consumer credit card accounts preferences will be applied nightly. for cardholders who use online A toggle feature Commerce banking. They can use toggle’s Bank calls Unwind permits Pay Now feature to designate cardholders to change their purchases in a particular preferred settings retroactively merchant category above or for any individual purchase, below a certain amount to be paid allowing a Pay Now ACH payment from their Commerce checking to be reversed, and adding account or a checking account that purchase amount to any from another bank. At the time outstanding credit balance. of purchase, those transactions Commerce Bank, which are authorized against their developed the business rules Commerce credit card, and earn supporting toggle’s core functions credit card reward points. in-house, plans on adding new At night, when transactions features every year. post to their credit card account, their Pay Now preferences are Pay Now preferences are applied applied using using technology from TSYS. technology from TSYS, Commerce Bank’s card account processor. Chad Doza is Senior VP, Consumer Selected transactions are cleared Credit Card at Commerce Bank in and settled from the consumer’s Kansas City, Missouri, selected checking account through (816) 234-2161, the automated clearinghouse chad.doza@commercebank.com, every night at no charge. www.commercebank.com. They are not included in the average daily balance calculation, so they do not incur finance charges. They are not counted as Visa or MasterCard debit transactions because they were authorized against the credit line. Two checking accounts from any financial institution can be linked to a customer’s Commerce credit card. Cardholders can use toggle to change their payment preferences David Robertson, Publisher Jan 19, 2015 12 VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.NILSONREPORT.COM Order Back Issues / Preview Upcoming Conferences / View Newsletter Archive