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search engine optimization; IT support and equipment payments anywhere and anytime through the USAePay
protection are also included, the partners noted. payment gateway, will be available for merchants to
purchase from POS Portal. USAePay also revealed that
"It's core to our value proposition to source qualified it partnered with CDE Services Inc. to secure merchant
partners, like Company.com, to expand our indirect and payment processing through contactless EMV using the
direct offerings with a keen focus on delivering mean- Key Injection Facility service offered by CDE as an inte-
ingful business tools for the SMB marketplace," said O.B. gral part of encrypting the PaySaber MP200 contactless
Rawls IV, iPayment CEO. EMV device.

Mastercard, Sage team up Vantiv teams with e-Nabler, CardFlight

Leveraging a partnership with Sage Payment Solutions, Vantiv Integrated Payments partnered with e-Nabler
Mastercard will deploy Masterpass to more than 10,000 Corp. to provide U.S.-based SMBs in the retail, restau-
SMBs to provide an efficient way for those businesses to rant and quick service restaurant sectors with access to
offer additional payment options to their customers at an EMV-compliant POS solution for tablets and other
minimal cost. "This partnership represents an important mobile devices. Vantiv also joined forces with CardFlight
step towards our ambition of helping customers take on Inc. to offer CardFlight's SwipeSimple mobile POS solu-
what's now and what's next in their business," said Paul tion to merchants. SwipeSimple is a mobile payment
Bridgewater, Chief Executive Officer at Sage Payment acceptance platform that includes a chip card reader,
Solutions. mobile application for iOS and Android, and a back
office reporting portal, Vantiv stated.
NCR integrates with Bottomline Technologies
NCR Corp. integrated Authentic, its transaction pro- ACQUISITIONS
cessing platform, with Bottomline Technologies Inc.'s
Direct Faster Payment Service solution. The technology i3 Verticals gains Randall Data Systems, CSC Links
is expected to enable UK-based financial institutions
to connect securely to the Faster Payments Service net- i3 Verticals LLC expanded its business in the health-
work, particularly helping smaller financial institutions care vertical through the completion of two acquisi-
overcome previous disadvantages. Authentic is able to tions: Randall Data Systems LLC and CSC Links LLC.
process 10,000 transactions per second from a full range Randall Data Systems, founded in 1982, provides custom
of payment sources, giving these institutions choice and accounting and inventory management solutions to a
scalability, according to NCR. broad range of healthcare and healthcare-related organi-
zations. CSC Links, founded in 2008, provides payment
Premier Services works with USAT solutions and methodologies for vertical markets, spe-
cifically the healthcare and nonprofit verticals.
USA Technologies Inc. said it formed a strategic partner-
ship with Premier Services Inc., thereby adding to its Sigma Payment acquired by REPAY
expanding list of customers and committing to a fully
connected cashless operation. As Premier's single cash- Realtime Electronic Payments (REPAY) acquired Sigma
less payments provider for all credit, debit, mobile and Payment Solutions Inc., which offers payment services
loyalty services, USAT will now connect 100 percent of in the automobile finance space. Both companies stated
Premier's machines to USAT's ePort Connect services, they will grow in their respective industries with shared
according to the partners. technology, resources and relationships. "REPAY had
already planned to expand into auto finance, so Sigma's
Shift4, Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrate established footprint and well-respected leadership in
that space made this an attractive acquisition for us,"
Shift4 Corp. released its Unified Commerce Payments said John Morris, CEO of REPAY.
solution for retailers using Microsoft Dynamics 365 for
Operations and Dynamics AX 2012. Shift4 partnered
with Microsoft distributor Retail Realm Distribution APPOINTMENTS
to develop the integration, and the resulting Unified
Commerce Payments extension provides retailers the Barnhardt tapped by GIACT
flexibility to implement a secure, integrated payment
solution across their entire enterprise, Shift4 said. GIACT Systems LLC named David Barnhardt its
Executive Vice President of Product. In his new posi-
USAePay partners with POS Portal, CDE tion, Barnhardt will be responsible for directing product
development for GIACT's suite of fraud reduction and
USAePay recently teamed up with POS Portal to bring compliance solutions company-wide. Barnhardt brings
merchants a mobile POS device with flexible options to over 13 years of banking and payments expertise to his
process payments. The latest devices, designed to accept

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