Since joining Hyperion to look after payments and finance recruitment I have been keeping my ear to the ground for developments with payments solution providers within gaming. With EiG coming up it’s interesting to see that so many payments companies now see the benefit in having a presence at the Milan exhibition. Companies like Wirecard AG, Paysafecard, Moneybookers and Worldpay, to name a few, are attending showing the importance of gaming to payments companies.
 

The number of payments and financial companies attending has increased over the past few years. It will be interesting to see how many more payments companies will make the move into the betting market in the next year and attend the 2012 expo.

Recently Skrill, a European online payments provider operating under the Moneybookers brand, has completed the acquisition of Payolution, the European social risk engine provider, to facilitate invoice and instalment payments for online and offline merchants.

The gross value of global mobile payment transactions will reach $945 billion by 2015, a recent study by Canadian market intelligence services provider IEMR indicates. This shows the importance of the mobile sector to the payments industry and with the growth of mobile betting the two seem to be inexorably linked.

Within the industry the main drive right now from a recruitment perspective is for Business Development Managers, Direct and Channel Sales and New Business Acquisition executives – as companies try to hunt down and secure new business. Follow MJH_Hyperion on twitter to keep up to date with the latest vacancies in iGaming.