Tag: SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH)

October 10, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SafeCharge adds former PayPal and Visa executives to its Board of Directors

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced the appointment of Robert Caplehorn and Jeremy Nicholds as non-executive directors of the Company and the concurrent retirement of Ed Warner from the Board. Mr Caplehorn, who has been previously Vice-President of Legal Global Operations for Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL), is a dual qualified lawyer…

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October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SafeCharge chosen by Italian online gaming provider Sisal.it for payments and withdrawals

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced that Sisal.it, the online gaming platform of the Italian group operating in the Gaming and Payment Services sector, has selected SafeCharge to facilitate players' deposit and withdrawal journey, fraud prevention, cards acquiring and alternative payments acceptance for the Italian market. SafeCharge's Personalised Cashier enables…

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July 11, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

JP Morgan sells remaining stake in SafeCharge as SCH shares continue downward

LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned from regulatory filings made by payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) that global bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) has sold its remaining stake in the company (or, down to what SafeCharge called 'no longer a notifiable interest in the company'). JPMorgan had taken a 7.43% stake in SafeCharge late…

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July 08, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

SafeCharge initiates £1 million share buyback as its stock continues downward - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned from regulatory filings made by payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) that the company has recently bought back 500,000 of its own shares on the open market. The shares were purchased at an average price of £1.90, for a total cost to SafeCharge of £900,000 (before…

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June 28, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

SafeCharge reports record EBITDA in 1H 2016, little GBP exposure

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has provided its Trading Update for the first six months of 2016, indicating that the company has had a very strong first half of the year. SafeCharge stated that its EBITDA for 1H-2016 will come in ahead of USD $16 million, which will make the…

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June 14, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

SafeCharge dumps its 5% stake in Germany's FinTech Group AG

Payments services provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) SafeCharge has announced that it has sold its minority stake in German based financial services technologies company FinTech Group AG (FRA:FLA). The sale of the stake, which was originally acquired by SafeCharge in June 2015 for a cost approximately €10 million and represented 5% of FinTech's equity, will result in…

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June 03, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

SafeCharge goes flying with El-Al payments processing deal

Continuing its charge (no pun intended) to grow its business outside of its core online industry base, payments solutions provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced that El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TLV:ELAL), Israel’s national airline, has selected SafeCharge’s advanced payments system. SafeCharge recently hired Barclaycard's Phil Atherton as  its new Chief Risk Officer (CRO), also clearly…

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May 18, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

SafeCharge reports strong Q1, hires Phil Atherton from Barclaycard as CRO

Payments services provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) issued a statement today indicating that it saw strong activity levels in the first quarter of 2016, with revenues and gross profit ahead of budget. In March SafeCharge processed record volumes, with the positive momentum continuing into April. About 10% of this volume was processed through SafeCharge's own acquiring platform.…

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