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IndustryUpdate

 DocuSign teams with Stripe                                    contactless payment-enabled devices that can be used
                                                               at Mastercard merchant locations around the globe, the
  DocuSign Inc. partnered with payment processor Stripe        companies said.
  Inc. to develop DocuSign Payments, a platform designed
  to save time and effort by providing a way to collect        PayJunction teams with Sycle
  payments and signatures in one step to deliver what
  DocuSign stated will deliver a superior customer experi-     PayJunction and audiology practice management solu-
  ence, instant payment and an error-free contract-to-pay-     tion provider Sycle partnered to integrate PayJunction's
  ment process. DocuSign Payments is slated for release in     Smart Terminal with Sycle's software. Together,
  early 2017 and is supported by Apple Inc., Google Inc.       PayJunction and Sycle have eliminated the lengthy,
  and Authorize.net, DocuSign noted.                           painstaking process of EMV Level 3 certification for
                                                               medical practices, the companies stated. Free to quali-
 Elafris, NLR collaborate                                      fied medical practices, the Smart Terminal processes
                                                               EMV card, mag sĀ­tripe card and contactless payments
  Artificial intelligence (AI) provider Elafris Inc. joined    such as Apple Pay. It also supports advanced features
  forces with NLR Resources Inc. to bring technology           such as electronic signature capture and digital receipts,
  and payment processing services to companies using           PayJunction noted.
  the Elafris platform. The partnership integrates NLR
  payment processing into the Elafris communication            Shopgate, Guidance go mobile
  platform. "We were impressed with Elafris' AI mes-
  saging capabilities," said NLR Director of Business          Shopgate Inc., a mobile website and native app develop-
  Development Rok Daneshfar. He added that millennials         er for online merchants, reported that it partnered with
  "spend more time in messengers than in social media          digital commerce solutions provider Guidance Solutions
  platforms," so enabling payments within messengers           Inc. to give merchants best-in-class mobile experiences
  makes total sense.                                           for customers. Jointly, Shopgate and Guidance aim
                                                               to accelerate the mobile revenues of merchants using
 G&D integrates with Rittenhouse                               aggressive mobile initiatives centered on smart strategy
                                                               and mobile optimization. The alignment of the com-
  Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, a provider of end-to-end           panies' distinct technologies is expected to help mid-
  solutions for smart wearable devices, reported it has        market and enterprise merchants take advantage of the
  developed a new solution for wristbands that will have       unique selling power of mobile apps.
  prepaid payment services from Rittenhouse Payment
  Solutions bundled in. "Enabling cashless event partici-      TransFirst, Raintree partner
  pation in a fun and secure way is a great extension of
  our business in EMV cards and mobile payments and            TransFirst and Raintree Systems Inc., a technology com-
  banking," said Scott Marquardt, President of G&D's U.S.      pany that provides practice management and electronic
  Mobile Security organization.                                medical record management solutions to the healthcare
                                                               industry, formed a strategic partnership. Under the
 Magento, Signifyd fight fraud                                 terms of the alliance, TransFirst will be the integrated
                                                               provider of electronic payment solutions to Raintree
  Magento Commerce reported that it will integrate             Systems' healthcare clients, which include such special-
  Signifyd's machine learning capabilities directly into       ties as physical therapy, behavioral therapy, pediatric
  the Magento Commerce platform. With this integra-            therapy, rheumatology, pain management, oncology
  tion, Magento expects to elevate its merchants beyond        and bariatrics.
  fraud scoring tools and eliminate their liability for fraud
  through Signifyd's Guaranteed Payments.                      Unity FI, MTS strike alliance

  "Our partnership with Signifyd significantly changes         Unity FI Solutions signed a partnership agreement
  how merchants manage orders and review losses and            with Money Transfer Systems Inc. Under the terms of
  fraudulent chargebacks," said Mark Lenhard, Senior           the agreement, MTS will sell Unity FI's non-competing
  Vice President of Strategy and Growth at Magento.            payment and processing solutions to its corporate and
                                                               financial institution customers. "This partnership will
 Mastercard, Fit Pay align                                     increase our exposure among some of the nation's
                                                               largest banks and offers us the opportunity to further
  Mastercard partnered with Fit Pay Inc. to bring              position ourselves in the marketplace," said Dan Miller,
  Mastercard contactless payments to consumer wear-            co-founder of Unity FI.
  ables and Internet-of-Things devices. Integrating the Fit
  Pay platform with the Mastercard Digital Enablement          Visa, Intel team on security
  Service (MDES), the companies will work with manu-
  facturers to provide cardholders a range of secure,          Visa and Intel Corp. agreed to collaborate to bring pay-
                                                               ment and data security technologies to the growing
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