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RESEARCH Elavon, RevSpring streamline patient payments

U.S. Bancorp subsidiary Elavon Inc. partnered with
EPA reports consumers want more from banks RevSpring, a payment solutions provider to over 2,000
U.S. financial services and healthcare provider/technol-
An Emerging Payments Association survey of 2,038 U.K. ogy firms. RevSpring will offer Elavon's Fusebox pay-
consumers found that 53 percent would like better qual- ment gateway and Simplify pre-certified EMV-enabled
ity financial services from banks and only 20 percent had solution to its healthcare clients. "Our collective solu-
been informed by banks about the European Union's tions will help increase overall patient financial engage-
Open Banking initiative rollout. It also found one in ment and reduce card data risks with our EMV-enabled
five big U.K. banks were compliant with the Second and encrypted processing solutions," said Jana Franks,
Payments Services Directive by the Jan. 13, 2018 dead- Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elavon's
line. "Even though the deadline has now passed, over healthcare business.
half of consumers still have not heard of the initiative
that has the power to change the future of all financial Noventis, Comdata join forces
services," the EPA wrote.
Biller technology firm Noventis Inc. and business-to-
NPD notes uplift in houseware sales business payment technology provider Comdata, a
FleetCor company, entered a multiyear agreement that
Based on data from NPD Group Inc.'s Checkout con- will enable Noventis to deliver payments via virtual
sumer receipt mining service, U.S. online housewares credit cards issued by Comdata to its network of sup-
product sales grew 18 percent in 2017, outpacing the pliers. Comdata, in turn, will use Noventis' processing
industry average. It found that nearly 25 percent of technology to automate payments for telecom suppliers
online buyers purchased three to four housewares items not currently equipped to accept standard virtual credit
last year. Topping the purchase list were food storage, card payments. Additionally, the partnership will give
gadgets and tabletop items; three-quarters also pur- Comdata a new distribution channel and Noventis an
chased home improvement items; and about half made integrated payment technology.
kitchen appliance and home textile purchases online.
goEmerchant, Renterval team up
PA circular economy findings
Commerce solutions provider goEmerchant partnered
A PA Consulting Group Keeping Customer Connections with Renterval LLC, a rental technology enterprise
report found that retailers who offer services to ensure focused on the sharing economy, to provide a suite of
clothing and electronics products are kept out of land- secure payment options for in-person, online and phone
fills are able to build loyalty and sales by providing transactions. "Rental businesses of all types can now con-
engaging ways for consumers to resell, recycle and nect their Renterval inventory management system with
donate items during shopping visits. Eight of 10 con- goEmerchant's payment solutions, allowing for easy and
sumers surveyed would recycle items at stores where secure rental payment acceptance," the partners stated.
the service was available; 72 percent would participate in
buyback programs for electronics, 66 percent for cloth- TEAMSable, ID Tech collaborate on EMV
ing; and over half said they would donate items at stores
that accepted them. POS hardware manufacturer Team Research Inc., (dba
TEAMSable POS), entered a channel collaboration with
PARTNERSHIPS International Technologies and Systems Corp., (dba ID
TECH), a designer and manufacturer of secure pay-
ment solutions, to bring seamless, integrated EMV card
Bluefin teams with Rev360 on eye care processing solutions to TEAMSable branded POS ter-
minals. Powered by ID TECH's advanced Mini Smart II
Bluefin Payment Systems LLC teamed with Rev360 to reader technology, the solutions will be available with
provide PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) TEAMSable's latest generation of Windows and Android
via RevolutionEHR's cloud-based EHR and practice POS terminals that are compatible with legacy systems.
management software for eye care professionals. Bluefin
Chief Strategy Officer Ruston Miles said, "Every com- TouchBistro Payments powered by WePay launches
pany wants the convenience of being able to accept
customer payments within their software platform, but iPAd-based POS software provider TouchBistro Inc.
they also want the assurance that those payments are launched TouchBistro Payments in partnership with
protected–especially in healthcare," citing the increased WePay, a Chase company. The new offering features
incidence of data breaches reported last year in that sec- instant payment processing and a new, integrated
tor. mobile payment device for pay-at-table service. "With
TouchBistro Payments powered by WePay, our restau-

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