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ANNOUNCEMENTS Paysafe brings new approach
to iGaming payments
U.S. Women in Payments Symposium Paysafe Group added a new single point of integration
honors Homberger to its range of payment solutions using a software API.
The unified platform is available to iGaming operators
Carolyn Homberger, group president at ACI Worldwide, in the United States as the market opens up to online
was recognized at the U.S. Women in Payment sports betting and was exhibited at ICE London in early
Symposium. She received the Rising Star Under 40 February. Using Paysafe's single integration, operators
award for leadership and professional excellence in and developers can access the full extent of Paysafe's
the payments industry. Since joining ACI in 2006, core, alternative and future differentiated payments ser-
Homberger has held several key roles across different vices, the company stated.
business divisions and has led significant transforma-
tion projects, ACI stated.
RESEARCH
Marqeta on 2019 Forbes Fintech 50
Marqeta was named to Forbes' annual Fintech 50 list. Mobile payment now a norm for
This is its first appearance on the list and validates the Chinese outbound travelers
company's innovation and market leadership among the Alipay released preliminary statistics on Chinese con-
current wave of innovation in the financial technology sumers' mobile payment behavior during China's Lunar
industry, Marqeta stated. Forbes' Fintech 50 list honors New Year celebrations. Drawn from the 40-plus mar-
fintech companies with the greatest impact and track kets where Alipay is accepted, the findings revealed
record of innovation. that overseas consumption per capita through Alipay
Metabank launches faster payments platform by outbound travelers from third-and-fourth-tier cities
grew faster than that by those from top-tier cities, such
MetaBank introduced its faster payments platform, as Beijing and Shanghai.
designed to enable its partners to disburse funds in
near real-time. One initial offerings on the platform is Contactless cards gaining traction
Mastercard Send, a push payments service that powers A growing number of banks plan to introduce contact-
a faster, better, smarter way to send money domesti- less credit and debit cards, Auriemma Consulting Group
cally and cross border, MetaBank noted, adding that stated, adding that contactless cards offer an improved
this rounds out MetaBank's suite of solutions that also customer experience and are poised to gain traction in
includes ACH origination, wire transfers and more. the U.S. market. "Today, just 22 percent of credit card
PAI assists in stopping ATM fraud companies offer contactless cards in the U.S. market,"
Auriemma said. "But 67 percent of card issuers plan to
Privately held ATM provider Payment Alliance introduce contactless cards within the next few years."
International is collaborating with the United States
Secret Service and local law enforcement agencies to FNB of Omaha releases 2019 outlook
thwart man-in-the-middle attacks at ATMs. Using pro- First National Bank of Omaha released its 2019 Outlook,
prietary, real-time reporting software, PAI is able to alert which evaluates the U.S. and global economies. "The
officials of potential attacks while they occur, enabling U.S. economy was relatively strong in 2018, and we
apprehension of criminals on the spot, PAI noted. think growth will continue in 2019," said Kurt Spieler,
Chief Investment Officer, Wealth Management at First
National Bank of Omaha. "However, our expectation
is that economic activity will decelerate this year. We
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