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Capital Management, MassMutual, Origin Bank, Slavic ods are used extensively in ecommerce because they
Integrated Administration, Stanley Black & Decker and ease the payment process for customers. An array of
The Clearing House. deals, discounts, and rewards are also luring U.S. millen-
nials toward using mobile wallet services for payments
TSYS' Genius supports EBT SNAP payments at ecommerce and retail stores.
The TSYS Genius platform now supports Electronic
Benefits Transfer (EBT) Supplemental Nutrition PARTNERSHIPS
Assistance Program (SNAP) payments. "The platform
can now integrate with a new set of POS providers, posi- Premier partners join Infinicept platform
tioning it to serve a broader range of businesses across
the United States – especially convenience stores and Infinicept, which offers an open and agnostic pay-
specialty grocery retailers," TSYS said. ment facilitator platform, launched its strategic partner
program by teaming with a select group of compa-
Visa goes digital-first with Visa Net nies focused on supporting the unique needs of an
expanding number of payment facilitators looking for
Visa introduced a new platform with a set of beta APIs, greater choice. Premier partners include Control Scan,
specifications and development tools for issuers and BridgePay, DishOut and Very Good Security.
issuer processors to begin building and beta testing
new payment products to help meet the future needs Flywire, TRUE North partner for international
of digital-first consumers. The offering will be available student programs in Canada
to clients and partners via Visa Next, a destination for
accessing new solutions in Visa's product pipeline. Flywire, a company that solves resolves payments issues
for educational institutions and students worldwide,
RESEARCH partnered with TRUE North, a Canada-based provider
of online systems for information management, tracking,
collaboration and reporting for international student
Agilysys reports on hospitality technology programs. The TRUE North/Flywire integration enables
Agilysys, a provider of next-generation hospitality soft- schools to simplify the application, enrollment, payment
ware solutions and services, released its annual hospital- and receivables processes for themselves and prospec-
ity infrastructure study, Guest Experience Management: tive student families.
How to Deliver What Matters Most to Guests. Based on Trust.Zone partners with Cloak
survey data from more than 300 hospitality managers for anonymous payments
and executives at 184 properties, the annual survey
examines the state of hospitality technology and its Trust.Zone, a provider of anonymous, secure and logless
impact on the guest experience. According to the study, virtual networks, and Cloak, which offers blockchain
over 57 percent of survey respondents said technology technology designed to facilitate private, secure and
solution integration is a key component of delivering untraceable decentralized transactions, formed an inte-
best-in-class guest experience management. gration partnership to deliver more security and privacy
Resource from BAI on thwarting fraudsters to Internet users. Alex Edwin, co-founder of Trust.Zone
VPN service, said, "Together, our two solutions allow
BAI Banking Strategies released Fraud and cybersecurity: internet users to keep them completely anonymous on
staying steps ahead, an executive report created to inform the web."
financial institutions how to stay out of harm's way and Apriva and Vagabond Announce
build robust defenses. Topics covered include the top
five cyber threats for banks ‒ and how to meet them; vīv and Campus Card Integration
closing the gap on vendor vulnerabilities; and how to Vagabond, a vending and convenience services technol-
combat five common security mistakes employees make. ogy provider, and Apriva, a payment platform provider

SpendEdge offers insights in the self-service industry, partnered to bring new pay-
on mobile wallet services ment options in the unattended retail space. Specifically,
college students will be able to use their virtual campus
SpendEdge, a procurement market intelligence firm, cards on Vagabond's vīv mobile payments app via
published the Global Mobile Wallet Services Category – Apriva's network, reducing equipment costs for cam-
Procurement Market Intelligence Report. The mobile wallet puses and operators, the partners said, adding the part-
services category credits much of its accelerating spend nership turns virtual student IDs into a form of payment.
momentum to exponential growth in the ecommerce
industry. Researchers found that mobile payment meth-

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