“Longtime Amazon.com Inc. executive Maria Renz is leaving the e-commerce giant after more than 20 years at the company to join online lender Social Finance Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.  At San Francisco-based SoFi, Ms. Renz will lead the financial-tech startup’s credit card, brokerage and bank-account businesses, one of the people said.”

“Azimo , the U.K. headquartered money transfer service backed by Japan’s Rakuten Capital, amongst others, is seeing a change at the top: founder Michael Kent is stepping sideways to become “executive chairman,” while Azimo’s COO Richard Ambrose is being promoted to CEO.”

PayPal Holdings Inc. shares fell 1.1% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company announced that Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready would be leaving the company at the end of the year “to pursue entrepreneurial interests outside the company.” Ready joined PayPal when the company made its 2013 acquisition of web-payment company Braintree, which owned popular peer-to-peer service Venmo as well.

“Long-time NACHA president and chief executive Jan Estep will cede that role July 1 to chief operating officer Jane Larimer, the organization announced Monday. Estep will formally retire at the end of the year, NACHA said, following a confidential process she set in motion late in 2018 with NACHA’s board of directors. Larimer, a 23-year veteran at NACHA, has filled a number of roles at the governing body for the automated clearing house network, including oversight of network rules and risk management as well as legal counsel. In particular, she has played a key role in the network’s transition to same-day processing, part of the overall U.S. payments industry’s recent trend toward faster payments. Same-day ACH credits took effect in 2016, with same-day debits following suit a year later.”

“Mr. Mehra’s appointment comes as technology companies such asApple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are venturing into the payments space and PayPal Holdings Inc., Ripple and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.are influencing consumer behavior. So far, this hasn’t reduced the dominance of card companies, according to Brendan Browne, a credit analyst at S&P Global Ratings.”

“In this role, Stoddart will oversee the development and strategic integration of Mastercard’s real-time payments capabilities beyond traditional card-based solutions. Among these solutions are our Vocalink account-based payments, the Homesend joint venture and Mastercard Send.”

“Chief Executive Officer Pieter van der Does, Chief Technology Officer Arnout Schuijff and former innovation director John Caspers have all become billionaires since Adyen’s June initial public offering, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That kind of wealth creation, rare for a European company, puts Amsterdam-based Adyen in a similar league to U.S. tech titans Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc.”

“PayPal Holdings Inc. has named Allison Johnson executive vice president and chief marketing officer, reviving a post that disappeared from the company in 2013. Ms. Johnson was vice president of world-wide marketing communications at Apple Inc. from 2005 through 2011 and was previously a senior marketing executive at HP Inc. She was most recently a founder and managing partner at West, which she described as a hybrid of a marketing and venture-capital firm. She said she left last March.”

“Blythe Masters left her job as a high-flying JPMorgan Chase executive in 2014, and soon after became CEO of Digital Asset, a blockchain startup that caters to banks and startups. Now, three years and a half years later she is stepping down.”

“US neo bank Simple has named a former Amazon executive as its new CEO, in a rare example of talent returning from Big Tech to the banking industry. David Hijirida quit Seattle-based Washington Mutual in 2007 to help build Amazon’s online payments business, before moving on to act as a director of Amazon Web Services and the e-commerce giant’s advertising arm.”

“Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX) today announced that Barry C. McCarthy, an accomplished executive with an extensive track record of developing and building technology-driven solutions for financial institutions and small businesses, has been named Deluxe’s President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, effective November 26, 2018. He joins Deluxe after 14 years at First Data, where most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Head of its Network & Security Solutions business, a diversified and growing, $1.5 billion publicly reported segment.”

“Mina Dimyan frequents a Stamford, Conn., cafe, where he orders a cup of strong coffee for $3. It comes with a splash of guilt.”

“Payment company Square‘s chief financial officer Sarah Friar will step down and take a job as CEO of Nextdoor, the company announced Wednesday. Shares of the fintech company, run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, dropped as much as 8 percent in after-hour trading.”

“As Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth, Michael Froman will integrate and align Mastercard’s global approach to doing business with governments, connected cities, financial inclusion and other new business opportunities under one organization. Froman will also oversee the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and join the company’s management committee. (Photo: Business Wire)”

“Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today it has named Kim Crawford Goodman president, Card Services. In this role, Goodman will oversee the company’s Card Services business, including debit and credit processing, ATM payment solutions and the Accel^® premier payments network.”

“Mastercard today announced the appointment of Ann Cairns as vice chairman, effective June 1, 2018. Gilberto Caldart succeeds her as president, International. Both will report to Ajay Banga, president and CEO. “Ann has significantly grown our international business over the past seven years,” said Banga. “Her deep understanding and appreciation of local cultures and expectations has been a tremendous asset. Not only has she has built sustainable, strong growth, Ann has served as a catalyst beyond payments, championing inclusion, the empowerment of women and talent development at all levels of the company. We look forward to her continued contributions in this new role.””

“A bitter January wind is biting in central London and passers-by shrink into their coats. But Liam, who is homeless, is still smiling as he tries to get people to stop and talk to him. Aside from his winning smile, he also offers an element intrigue, thanks to an unusual box hanging from his neck? “I say to people: ‘Hi, like to come and talk about this box?’ The box makes people stop,” says Liam, 34, who did not reveal his full name and is currently sleeping in a night shelter. People can tap their credit or debit cards on his box to give a £3 ($4.07) donation via contactless payment.”

“Under her leadership, the digital team has been focused on iterating the mobile app based on customer feedback, and adding the best parts of other popular digital experiences. For example, Subway added a “swipe right, swipe left” feature for different sandwich toppings that emulates the way dating apps are used, Ms. Ganelli said.”

“Naturally, most people have more trust in the “full faith and credit of the United States” than in an anonymous distributed group of miners and traders. But trust in digital currency is clearly building over time and is a self-reinforcing network.”