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IndustryUpdate
Cardflight, PAX team for SwipeSimple for merchants. This acquisition further positions SCS as
an industry leader providing secure, reliable financial
SaaS payment technology company CardFlight and technology solutions and commences the start of a more
PAX Technology Inc, a provider of electronic payment aggressive development strategy for 2019, SCS stated,
terminal solutions and related services, have added adding that iDeposit's technology platform and ability to
SwipeSimple smart terminal functionality to the PAX meet high security standards has established an impreg-
920. The PAX A80 terminal is expected to follow soon. nable foothold in the payments industry.
Cardtronics, Timewise re-up
APPOINTMENTS
Timewise Food Stores, a leading convenience store chain
based in Houston, and retail ATM operator Cardtronics Three join Wnet board
extended their long-standing partnership. Cardtronics
will continue to provide complete turnkey ATM services The Women's Network in Electronic Transactions (Wnet)
to the entire portfolio of over 220 Timewise stores. appointed three payments industry executives to its
board of advisors: Audrey Blackmon, Verrency's senior
Fingerprints, G+D launch vice president of business development; Beth Deck,
contactless biometric card Netspend's senior vice president of accounting and
Biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards (Fingerprints) finance; and David Leppek, Statement IQ's executive
and Giesecke + Devrient Mobile Security (G+D), a global payment consultant. The newly appointed advisors will
provide strategic guidance to Wnet's board and support
mobile security technology company, are collaborat-
ing to bring contactless biometric payment cards to the and advance Wnet's mentorship, scalability, sustainabil-
ity, membership and Leadership Summit initiatives.
market. The card features Fingerprints' T-Shape module,
which is part of its 1300-series. It has ultra-low power GiftYa hires Podroskey, Tribino
consumption and is tailored to be integrated in smart-
cards using standard processes, the partners noted. Jim Podroskey is now director of engineering at GiftYa
and Carlos Tribino is the chief marketing officer.
ACQUISITION Podroskey will play a vital role in GiftYa's technology
expansion and scalability, according to Jason Wolfe, the
company's CEO. He joins GiftYa from the Blackhawk
SCS to purchase iDeposit assets Network where he was responsible for engineering
Signature Card Services, a provider of payment technolo- growth and leadership across the ecommerce division.
gy integration and acquiring solutions, agreed to acquire Previously, he was vice president of technology for
the assets of iDeposit, a payment gateway technology GiftCards.com. Tribino, who also previously worked at
company specializing in integrated payments solutions GiftCards.som, comes to GiftYa from Compass, where
he was marketing lead. He will support GiftYa's rapid
development.
ControlScan taps
Sam Pfanstiel
ControlScan, a provider of
managed security and compli-
ance solutions recruited Sam
Pfanstiel to serve in an all-new
role as the company's director
of security consulting services.
He will provide consulting and
assessment services for payment
solution technologies as well as
identify impacts of third-party
solutions on merchant payment
environments. Pfanstiel joins
ControlScan with over two
decades of senior IT manage-
ment; card brand compliance;
fraud prevention; and payment,
application and mobile security
experience.
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