All articles by Verdict Staff

Verdict Staff

Country Report: Oman

With its economy heavily dependent on depleting oil resources, Oman has tried to diversify into other sectors, particularly tourism and gas. It is aiming to reduce oil’s contribution to GDP to 9% by 2020, and create more jobs for the growing population.

Country Report: Morocco

The Moroccan economy was adversely affected by the financial crisis. However, the government took preventive measures such as the establishment of a Strategic Monitoring Committee (CVS) in February 2009 to assist the government in coping with the impact of the crisis.

Heartland Payments, PAX to provide EMV terminals for merchants

Heartland Payment Systems has partnered with PAX Technology, a provider of electronic payment terminals, to offer EMV-compliant payment terminals for merchants.

SafeCharge rolls out new PokerStars-branded prepaid MasterCard

SafeCharge, a payment solutions provider, has unveiled a new PokerStars-branded prepaid MasterCard that enables poker players in the UK to withdraw and deposit direct to their bank account.

Wincor Nixdorf to spin off cashless payments business; slash 12% of workforce

Wincor Nixdorf, the German banking IT service provider, is planning to carve out its cashless payments business and slash 12% of its workforce as part of a part of a restructuring plan.

Mint rolls out new online payments platform for CNP sector

Mint Payments, an Australia-based mobile payments and transaction processing company, has rolled out a new online payments solution designed to cater the customer-not-present (CNP) sector of the payments market.

Base Commerce selects Transpay for mass global payments solution

Base Commerce, a payments solutions provider for ecommerce and SAAS businesses, has selected Transpay’s pay-by-email Global Mass Payments platform.

GHL inks TPA services agreement with CIMB Bank

GHL Systems, a Malaysian payment service provider, has inked an agreement to provide payment facilitator or third-party acquisition (TPA) services to CIMB Bank.

Unified Payment receives acquiring license from MasterCard to accelerate e-payments

Unified Payment Service has received an acquiring license from MasterCard in an effort to increase the acceptance of MasterCard payment cards in Nigeria.

Henderson Hyundai selects 3PEA’s PaySign Connect prepaid solution

Henderson Hyundai Superstore, an automotive dealership in Nevada, has selected 3PEA International’s PaySign Connect prepaid solution to reward customers and employees.