Mastercard announced on Friday (Dec. 21) that it has appointed Liz Oakes as the new executive vice president of market development for its new payment platforms team. Oakes will work with a variety of entities – governments, regulators, central banks, schemes, and retail and commercial...
The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely forecasted to be one for the record books on that account. According to a Challenger, Gray & Christmas analysis, employers were predicted to...
Digital Asset, the blockchain software company, is losing chief executive Blythe Masters, who is leaving for personal reasons, reported the Financial Times. Citing a statement from the company, the Financial Times reported Masters, who has been in her role for close to four years, is...
SWIFT announced Wednesday (Dec. 12) that the company’s Chief Executive Officer Gottfried Leibbrandt has informed the board that he plans to leave the company at the end of June. In a press release, SWIFT noted that Leibbrandt has been in his job for seven years...
What goes up must come down, as goes the old saying. So, crypto prices soared, crypto prices crashed, staffing levels grew and now, staffing levels are being trimmed – and, in some cases, cut to the bone. The Wall Street Journal reports that cryptocurrency firms...
Instacart shoppers are unhappy with the company’s new payment structure, which has resulted in a decrease in wages. As a result, the workers are boycotting lower-paying orders, as well as trying to organize the company’s network of independent contractors. “We’re being mistreated,” Alid Alvarado, a...
Social media giant Facebook is looking to grow its blockchain team, according to a report. The company posted on its careers page that it’s looking for data engineers and scientists, software engineers and a product marketing lead for its blockchain team. The company said its...
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kathleen Kraninger as the new Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP). “NAFCU is consistently engaged with the bureau on issues critical to the credit union industry and we look forward to working with Director Kraninger to ensure...
Kathy Kraninger, President Trump’s pick as the new full-time director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), passed an important procedural vote in the Senate on Thursday (Nov. 29), bringing her that much closer to nomination, according to The Washington Post. The CFPB was created...
