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ANNOUNCEMENTS increasingly diversified business relationships in the
financial services industry." ValidiFI's stated its platform
now services many of the largest national financial ser-
ACI recognized for real-time payments vice providers.
ACI Worldwide, a global provider of real-time elec- TipTapGo launches mobile tipping app
tronic payment and banking solutions, received the
2019 Global Product Leadership Award for its UP TipTapGo launched a tipping program designed for
Immediate Payments solution. Frost & Sullivan's businesses that employ associates who receive cash tips.
Product Leadership Award recognizes companies that Service associates working at valet services, hotels, golf
strive to be best-in-class in three key areas: understand- courses, beauty salons, barber shops, shuttle services,
ing demand, nurturing the brand and differentiating etc., benefit from TipTapGo by minimizing missed tips
from the competition. because a customer isn't carrying cash or has the wrong
denominations; increasing tip volume by accelerating
BlueSnap named a 2019 best customer flow through payment or checkout lines; and
place to work in fintech providing an opportunity to earn referral fees through
TipTapGo's referral program, the company said.
Online payments technology company BlueSnap
was named a 2019 Best Places to Work in Financial U.S. Payments Forum offers
Technology. The awards program is a SourceMedia contactless payments resource
and Best Companies Group joint effort. "As the fintech
industry continues to grow, it's important that we focus With more merchants showing interest in enabling
on our employees to create an innovative and collab- consumers to tap to make payments, the U.S. Payments
orative environment," said Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of Forum launched www.getcontactless.com to help them
BlueSnap. "We truly value their happiness and we strive get started. The website is part of the forum's ongoing
to offer a competitive package to ensure they feel sup- efforts to provide timely and easy-to-use educational
ported." resources for the industry at large.

CardFlight adds invoicing
capability to SwipeSimple RESEARCH

Software-as-a-service payment technology company Entersekt finds two-thirds of consumers
CardFlight added the ability to create and send invoices favor single mobile app
to its signature product, SwipeSimple. The features
are available to all SwipeSimple merchants from the Entersekt released initial findings from a survey con-
SwipeSimple Merchant Web Dashboard. This is part of ducted online by The Harris Poll. Entersekt commis-
CardFlight's commitment to make payment acceptance sioned the study to better understand U.S. consumer
easy for small business owners, CardFlight said. attitudes toward mobile app-based banking and pay-
ments. Findings show that 59 percent of mobile device
Merchant Boost changes name to ValidiFI use their banking app at least once a week. Apps for

Merchant Boost recently changed its name to ValidiFI. mobile payments are less widely used than banking
Oscar DiVeroli, the company's CEO, said, "Changing apps, with only 33 percent of mobile device owners
our name to ValidiFI reflects the company's growth using them weekly. While 71 percent of mobile device
into a leading provider of data and technology and its owners have used mobile payment apps, only 7 percent
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