It has come to our attention that a fraudulent email has been sent to a number of industry participants from an unknown source suggesting the resignation of PhonepayPlus’s Acting Chief Executive. This is not true.
For more details please read the statement given by PhonepayPlus this afternoon: http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/News-And-Events/News/2015/1/Fraudulent-email.aspx
PhonepayPlus, today announced the appointments of Steve Ricketts and Kevin Brown to the Board, and senior Civil Servant Simon Towler as its new Director of Policy and External Relations.
Steve Ricketts joins the PhonepayPlus Board as an Industry Member and brings a great deal of relevant knowledge and experience to the role. Founding his consulting business ATAO (UK) Limited in 2011, he has advised a number of high profile organisations on payment services and mobile strategy. Prior to this, he spent over five years at Orange / EE where he was Head of Mobile Commerce and Marketing Services and has sat on major industry boards and initiatives, including the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), the GSM Association Mobile Media Metrics, Payforit and the Direct Marketing Association Mobile Council.
Kevin Brown joins the Board as a non-Industry Member. He is currently a senior advisor with KPMG, providing insights into the payment market place globally. He has recently joined the new Payment Services Regulator Advisory Panel as a special industry advisor. He holds a non-executive Chairman position with RBS (Lux) SA, an independent cross border fund management service backed by RBS. Prior to this, he spent a long successful career in banking with Royal Bank of Scotland / NatWest, with his final role being MD for Global Transaction Services.
Simon Towler joins PhonepayPlus as Director of Policy and External Relations from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport where he held senior positions, most recently leading on telecommunications regulation, spectrum policy and facilitating the rollout of communications networks. He was head of the UK delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications in December 2012 and was also responsible for the DCMS programme that led to the auction of spectrum for 4G mobile broadband services by Ofcom in February 2013. Prior to this, he was with the Department of Trade and Industry, holding various policy posts in civil aerospace, international trade policy, nuclear issues, and better regulation. He also spent four years in the United States on secondment to the British Embassy in Washington DC.
AIME Executive and Board Members will be meeting with these new appointees in the new year to welcome them and to establish good working relationships from the onset.
For the full PhonepayPlus announcement, please follow this link
The final list for the first 80 price points for non geographic voice number ranges to be implemented on July 1st 2015 have been published by the consultancy company Interconnect Communications and is available here,
These contain the DQ service price points that previously were held back for confidentiality reasons and corrections to per minute pricing that started after 60 seconds from connection.
It is anticipated that a further 20 price points will be identified to bring the launch quantity to 100 prior to July 1st 2015
Developer Conference & Exhibition:
Now in its 5th year, Apps World has grown to be the leading global multi-platform event in the app industry. This year’s ExCeL event is set to be the biggest yet with over 350 exhibitors and over 12,000+ attendees including developers, mobile marketers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform owners and industry professionals registered for two days of high level insight and discussion. With start up zones, targeted workshop tracks, speed meeting, one-to-one meetings, parties, and awards the event will be tackling a spectrum of issues across the app ecosystem.
Workshop tracks include:
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AIME will be speaking on the 12th November on the panel for Driving Consumer Adoption:
Register for your paid workshop pass, gaining access to all workshops & networking platforms here
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The Corporate Social Media Summit Europe is the largest and most senior meeting of social media and marketing executives, giving you unrivalled insight into how social can drive your business growth & competitive advantage.
#CSMEU boasts no guru’s and no “blue-sky thinking”… just 2 days of actionable insight, networking and best-practice sharing with the biggest and most social brands, 100% focused on the corporate priorities outlined by you and your peers.
Hear from VPs and Heads of Social/Marketing from global leaders such as Sony, McDonalds, Nestle, Visa, AkzoNobel, Orange, SAB Miller, Phillips, Barclaycard, O2 and many more.
At the Summit you will learn how to:
To see the full speaker line-up, agenda, and to download your free event guide, visit here.
Gx has teamed up with regulatory experts Gambling Compliance to bring you an event that’s unmissable, whether you’re a gambling operator, or if you provide services to the gambling industry in any way. And it’s not just Compliance people that should attend: some of the legislation is so fundamental to profitability and corporate risk that you will probably need to bring your CEO!
On the day we’ll hear from industry experts including Philippe Vlaemminck, head of ALTIUS EU Regulatory and Trade Practice and External Legal Advisor to The EU Lotteries, who will put the new UK Gambling Act in perspective, and discuss the wider and longer term implications of this new legislation. Jon Matonis, Executive Director, Bitcoin Foundation will lead the debate into whether virtual currencies will destabilise the gambling industry or present an opportunity, and we’ll hear keynote addresses from senior policy-makers from the European Commission, the UK Gambling Commission, and the European Banking Authority on 4 key new regulatory themes:
If you’re in or associated with the gambling industry, this is one event you literally can’t afford to miss.
AIME will be speaking on the panel at this event in the afternoon.
To find out more and to see the full agenda and speaker line-up click here.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has set up a new focus group with a brief to establish international standards for what it dubs interoperable digital financial services, as the organisation backs mobile money to bring banking to poor people in the developing world.
For the full story please read the article in Mobile World Live: http://www.mobileworldlive.com/itu-develop-standards-mobile-money
