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When Bad Things Happen To Bad People-Part 1!
When we started the TPAtlanta newsletter and community over two years ago, our mission was to inform, to educate, and to enlighten our friends in the Transaction Processing Industry.
One of the goals of this Publisher's Column was also to try to make you think beyond your current role and your current company by discussing issues that might not be part of your normal water cooler conversations. And in doing so, we have spent considerable effort delving into some of the more sinister aspects of our industry, if only to heighten our collective awareness of what can go wrong if we are less than diligent in our business practices.
For the last two months, we have used this space to talk about Off Shore Financial Centers and their role in various money laundering schemes.
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Calvin D. Johnson, Publisher
publisher@tpatlanta.com
Trans Atlantic Systems, Inc.
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ChoicePoint's ADAM Program The ADAM program, a service of ChoicePoint in cooperation with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), continues to play a critical role in the recovery of missing children across the United States. NCMEC has confirmed that the recent recovery of a 13-year-old girl in Indianapolis, Ind., was the 94th missing child who has been found by using ADAM since its inception in 2000.
ADAM (Automated Delivery of Alerts on Missing Children) was developed by ChoicePoint and donated to NCMEC to increase the chances of safely recovering missing children by dramatically improving NCMEC's ability to target the specific areas in which children are most likely to be found.
In the latest ADAM-related recovery, a 13-year-old girl ran away from her home in Indianapolis on April 30. Her family received information that she had been staying in the local area so a ChoicePoint broadcast fax was sent within a 25-mile radius, specifically targeting law enforcement agencies, restaurants, medical centers, transportation centers, shopping centers and hotels. NCMEC was contacted by the girl's father that she was found on May 19.
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Governor Perdue Visits Ingenico in France
Georgia governor Sonny Perdue met with Amedeo d'Angelo, CEO of Ingenico, during the Governor's trade mission to Europe. The Governor led a state delegation on an economic development and diplomatic mission to Europe from June 18 to June 29, and made a stop at Ingenico to discuss the importance of Atlanta as a banking hub for the USA marketplace.The Governor's delegation included Lt. Governor Casey Cagle, State Senator Eric Johnson, officials from the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), business leaders from various Georgia industries and civic leaders from Georgia communities.
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Nova's Pam Joseph on Going International
Pamela Joseph, chairman & CEO of Nova Information Systems, and vice chairman at U.S. Bancorp was a featured speaker at this year's TowerGroup Financial Services Business & Technology Conference in Boston. Joseph's presentation covered NOVA's strategy for going international and at the same time provided attendees with some good advice for doing so.
Their first venture into the international space was with Bank of Ireland. The deal allowed NOVA to help the bank expand its presence beyond the Emerald Isle. Through a joint venture with BofI, euroConex, a top five European payment processor and processor of dynamic currency conversion, was founded.
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Fidelity National Information Services Announces Misappropriation of Consumer Data by Employee of Certegy Check Services Division
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., announced on July 3 that its
subsidiary, Certegy Check Services, Inc. ("Certegy"), a service provider to U.S. retail merchants, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, was victimized by a former employee who misappropriated and sold consumer information to a data broker who in turn sold a subset of that data to a limited number of direct marketing organizations.
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Wal-Mart Introduces MoneyCard
On June 20, retail giant Wal-Mart announced its entry into the prepaid debit card market. Separate press releases by Wal-Mart and its partners, Green Dot Corporation and GE Money Bank, said the card, to be called the Wal-Mart MoneyCard, will be in about 1,300 Wal-Mart stores in 13 states by the end of June.
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SouthernLINC Wireless Selling Prepaid Phone Package
SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company, has expanded its partnership with The Money Tree, Inc., a retail financial services provider. SouthernLINC Wireless' Prepaid phone package is now available for purchase at 70 The Money Tree Inc. locations throughout Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
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Wells Fargo Launches Enhanced Remittance Service
Wells Fargo has announced that "Wells Fargo ExpressSend customers with qualifying accounts now can have transaction fees discounted or waived and have more choices in how they remit money to Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, China, Vietnam, India and the Philippines."
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CheckFree Improves Check Image Processing Efficiency
Atlanta based CheckFree Corporation announced on July 23 that it has integrated Source Capture Suite/Web Capture, provided by its Carreker subsidiary, with its CheckFree® PEP+ reACHTM check conversion and automated clearinghouse (ACH) payments solution.Financial institutions will now have a single vendor solution to process transactions from the point of check capture through check conversion and routing, while also being able to report the status of both check and ACH return items.
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FleetCor Expands its International Portfolio
FleetCor, the Global Fleet Card Company, announced on June 21 that it has acquired the remaining 50% ownership interest of CCS Slovakia through its subsidiary CCS in the Czech Republic.CCS Slovakia is the leading fuel card processor in the Slovak market. FleetCor has obtained the remaining ownership interest from UTA a Germany-based fleet card company, CCS's previous partner in the venture.
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