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ACQUISITION held several senior positions at such
major global companies as IBM, HP
and Cisco. Throughout his career,
Weavr acquires Comma Laurent has been an avid advocate
Weavr confirmed that it acquired B2B open banking platform Comma for sustainability and technology as
Payments in a first-of-its kind deal within the world of embedded finance. a catalyst for business innovation.
Weavr further stated that with Comma, it has become the first embedded- Simone Gross joins Fides
finance provider to bring together banking-as-a-service and open banking
into an optimized embeddable payment solution for B2B applications rang- Fides Treasury Services Ltd., a
ing from payroll to accounts payable and other forms of mass payments. provider of multibank connectiv-
The acquisition, which is largely equity-based, will see Weavr retain most of ity, payments and transaction com-
Comma's current workforce, including the company's CEO and founder, Tom munications, hired Simone Gross
Beckenham, and its chief technical officer, Gianluca Pengo, Weavr added. to lead its product management
team. Gross has 15 years of tech-
APPOINTMENTS nical product experience working
with multibanking, open banking
and digital payment platforms,
Laurent Blanchard signs on with Ingenico most recently as the product owner

Payments acceptance solutions provider Ingenico appointed Laurent for API Ecosystems at UBS. Prior to
Blanchard as its president and chief executive officer, as well as a member joining UBS in 2018, she held prod-
of the company's supervisory board; he was also elected to the company's uct-oriented roles at Erste Group, a
board of directors. Laurent has a 25-year track record in the technology large financial services provider in
sector, particularly in Europe and North America. Before joining Ingenico, Central and Eastern Europe.
Laurent served as the chief operating officer of Cegid, where he led the com- Get Beyond adds four top execs
pany's transformation to a cloud-based software business. Prior to that he
to board of directors

Four veteran payments executives
joined Get Beyond's board of direc-
tors. The appointees—Mia Shernoff,
Robert J. Leonard, O.B. Rawls IV,
and Robert Niehaus—will join
Honora Moore, Get Beyond's chief
legal officer and chief of staff; Mike
Peters, CEO and president; and Bob
Carr, founder and executive chair-
HOLIDAY PAYMENT man, on the board. Shernoff is a
marketing executive, serving as a
SOLUTIONS fractional chief marketing officer
to technology and financial institu-
tion clients. Leonard is an entre-
preneur responsible for co-found-
ACH • LEVEL III • EMV ing and growing three software
companies, including iMobile3,
WEB • RECURRING Encore Development and Leonard
Development Group, over the
past 30+ years. Rawls is a senior
CASH DISCOUNT level executive with success in fin-
tech, payments and banking. He
served as CEO of Global Payment
CUSTOMER DATABASE Processing for Paysafe and CEO
and president of iPayment. Niehaus
is the chairman and founder of
C A L L F O R A D E M O GCP Capital Partners LLC, an inde-
8 0 0 - 2 9 6 - 4 8 1 0 pendent, privately held investment
management firm that manages
four U.S. private equity funds.

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