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i2c, Bento collaborate on SMB prepaid Mastercard expands GM partnership

i2c Inc. and Bento for Business partnered on a prepaid Mastercard expanded its long-standing relationship
card solution that provides small business owners and with General Motors Co. Customers at more than 4,000
their employees a better way to control spending and Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac dealerships in the
manage expenses. The Bento prepaid employee expense United States, as well as online customers, will be able
card leverages i2c's Agile Processing payments platform to order and pay for ACDelco and other service parts,
to deliver such advanced features as integrated alerts, accessories and over-the-air updates for OnStar Go using
card-level restrictions and digital dashboards for high Mastercard's payment gateway. The partners established
level visibility and real-time control over spending, the the GM Rewards Card program in 1992.
partners noted.
Plaid, Dwolla team on ACH integration
Jack Henry aligns with First Data, PSCU
Plaid Technologies Inc. and Dwolla Inc. partnered to
Jack Henry & Associates Inc. entered into a strategic deliver a fully-tokenized ACH payment integration solu-
agreement with First Data and PSCU to further expand tion. The partnership makes it possible for clients to
the credit and debit card platform offered to financial tokenize account and routing numbers and authenticate
institutions by its JHA Card Processing Solutions group. user bank accounts through Plaid; and accept ACH pay-
According to Jack Henry, the partnership further enhanc- ments within minutes using Dwolla's ACH application
es its card platform capabilities with credit, debit, and program interface, the partners stated.
ATM card processing; and fraud detection and risk man-
agement tools. In addition, JHA will refer clients to First Singular Payments powers PracticeSuite
Data's STAR Network.
Singular Payments LLC recently integrated its payments
Malauzai partners with Vantiv solution with PracticeSuite's management software.
PracticeSuite's cloud-based platform is used by over
Malauzai Software Inc. partnered with Vantiv Inc. to 43,000 medical professionals to manage medical practices
launch Family Manager: SmartKid Control. The Vantiv utilizing tools for scheduling, billing, EHR, practice col-
solution, powered by Ondot Systems, will be incorporat- laboration, and a patient portal to streamline communica-
ed into Malauzai's mobile platform and can be accessed tions. "Custom payments integrations, like this latest one
by its SmartApp users. Through the partnership, financial completed with PracticeSuite, have become a primary
institutions leveraging the SmartKid Control functional- focus here at Singular Payments," said Vaden Landers,
ity can offer SmartApp users the added benefit of pay- Chairman and Managing Partner at Singular.
ment and transaction monitoring.
Star Micronics teams with Quetzal
Star Micronics Co. Ltd. tapped Quetzal POS Ltd. to
provide support for
its all-in-one mPOP
peripheral, which is
now integrated with
Quetzal's redesigned
iPad POS. Paired with
Star Micronics' mPOP,
mobile point of pur-
chase, which features
a 2-inch receipt print-
er and cash drawer,
the combined system
will be targeted to
boutiques in the foot-
wear, clothing, cos-
metics and fragrance
segments. Quetzal
POS also plans to add
support for Star Cloud
Services.

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