The Isis mobile wallet platform has rebranded to Softcard

Isis, the U.S. mobile wallet platform backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is rebranding. “In a few weeks, Isis Wallet will become Softcard. It’s a different name for the same great way to pay,” the company notes on its homepage. The move comes about two months after Isis announced that it would change its name, to distance itself from any potential association with the hardcore Islamic militant group of the same name that has been involved in a lot of gruesomely detailed deaths of U.S. and other citizens. “However coincidental, we have no desire to share a name with this group and our hearts go out to those affected by this violence,” Michael Abbott, the CEO of Isis, says in a note explaining the change, adding that this is only a changing of the name, nothing more.