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APPOINTMENTS departments – making crucial credit
and compliance decisions on high-
risk and high-volume accounts, as
Signature Card Services selects Bennett well as developing and maintaining
Payment processing service provider Signature Card Services added Jacob internal policies for risk mitigation.
Bennett to its executive team as senior vice president of underwriting and Nuvei taps Calliham
risk. He is tasked with streamlining merchant onboarding and improving
risk and underwriting processes. In addition to risk mitigation, he has a Nuvei, a provider of global fin-
mind for strategy and a mastery of operations, regulatory compliance, and tech solutions and community of
the payments processing industry at large, SCS noted. Bennett is an ETA payment experts, appointed Scott
Certified Payments Professional and an active member of the Merchant Calliham as its senior vice presi-
Acquirers' Committee (MAC) and the Electronic Transactions Association dent, M&A and strategy. Calliham
(ETA) Professional Development Committee, as well as a frequent speaker, will lead efforts to identify growth
and contributor to industry publications. In 2018, Bennett was recognized as opportunities through potential
a game-changer in digital payments and inducted into ETA's Forty Under 40 acquisitions, collaborate with the
inaugural class. executive team across business units
and help drive the implementa-
Prentice joins NMA tion of Nuvei's corporate strategy.
National Merchants Association, a merchant advocacy group and merchant Calliham has over 20 years' expe-
services provider, named Barry Prentice as its vice president of risk and rience in the payments industry
underwriting. Prentice brings more than 15 years of payments experience to related to mergers and advisory
his role at NMA and has extensive card-not-present expertise, NMA noted. services, product and project man-
Prentice is now responsible for leading the NMA's risk and underwriting agement, plus corporate strategy
and consulting engagements, Nuvei
stated. He joins Nuvei from First
Annapolis Consulting, now part of
Accenture, where his primary focus
was on business development and
consulting for domestic and interna-
tional banks, payment processors,
acquirers and technology providers.

Leehy steps down, Matthews
steps up as president of ATMIA

Jeff Matthews, CEO of Grant Victor
companies and former deputy
president of the ATM Industry
Association assumed the role of
president of the association follow-
ing the resignation of John Leehy,
former CEO of Payment Alliance
International. ATMIA CEO Mike
Lee said, "John Leehy's presidency
of ATMIA was distinguished and
inspiring, and we thank him for
his leadership, which has made us
stronger and better as an associa-
tion. We wish him all the success
he deserves in future." Matthews
added that this is an exciting time
for the industry and encouraged all
members to step up their involve-
ment to collaborate and help define
a vision for the future.

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