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• ATM network operator Cardtronics plc announced organizational changes that include chief financial officer Edward H. West taking on the additional role of chief operations officer and North American Business Group president David Dove leaving the company later this year. Jonathan Simpson-Dent, who had been managing director of Cardtronics Europe, was named chief commercial officer.
• UniRush LLC, parent company of the prepaid RushCard, is expected to name former MasterCard Inc. executive Ron Hynes as CEO, replacing Richard Savard, who had led the company since 2014, The New York Times reported. The RushCard experienced a processing glitch last year that left many cardholders unable to access their funds.
• Payments provider National Merchants Association LLC named Tim Reynolds, a former Bank of America Corp. manager, as its director of member support.
• Datacap Systems Inc. said it has completed the U.S. EMV Level 3 certification with processor Global Payments Inc. and released an EMV-capable version of its NETePay software for use on the processor’s platform.
• Grand America Hotels and Resorts, which owns eight properties, will use a point-of-sale system from Agilsys Inc. that offers encryption, tokenization, and EMV acceptance.
• PayWithChip Inc., an e-commerce payments company, announced a Indiegogo fundraising campaign to raise funds for marketing expenses and to develop its technology, a chip card reader that consumers connect to computers to make online payments.
• The PCI Security Standards Council unveiled a Web page with information and resources about payment card security for small merchants.
• Vaultskin, which makes wallets that block radio frequency identification signals, released Vaultcard, a device that looks like a credit card but actually is an RFID jammer.
• EarnUp, a startup that automates loan payments for consumers, announced its launch with $3 million in seed funding from angel investors.
