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        PARTNERSHIPS                                            ACQUISITION


          Bluefin, FroogalPay to provide P2PE                     Fintech Goodworld acquires Cheerful Giving

          Bluefin, a provider of payment security technologies and   Charitable giving fintech Goodworld stated it acquired
          PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solu-    Bstow Inc. (dba Cheerful Giving) to power causes in a
          tions, partnered with payment provider FroogalPay to    modern world. "[T]hese two leading brands have come
          give users of FroogalPay's multi-gateway, hardware      together to launch an innovative fundraising solution for
          agnostic platform access to Bluefin's PCI-validated P2PE   today's  nonprofit and social impact sectors," the com-
          solution. The benefits of the Bluefin and FroogalPay    panies stated, adding that under the Cheerful Giving
          P2PE solution include reducing PCI scope from 329 to    brand, a "simple, free, first-of-its-kind platform" brings
          33 questions on the P2PE self-assessment questionnaire,   together the best of tried and tested fundraising technol-
          which in turn provides significant cost and efficiency   ogy with the social and mobile digital tools demanded
          savings; online management of the P2PE device process   by younger generations.
          with Bluefin's P2PE Manager; and seamless integration
          with FroogalPay's platforms, the partners stated.     APPOINTMENTS

          Fattmerchant, Acuity partner
          on payment processing                                   Grant Skeens joins Radius Bank
          Payment technology provider Fattmerchant teamed up      Digital bank Radius Bank hired Grant Skeens as its
          with accounting firm Acuity to reduce merchants' credit   executive vice president and national director of gov-
          card processing fees by bringing Acuity's clients access   ernment guaranteed lending. Skeens brings to this role
          to Fattmerchant's Omni platform and subscription-       nearly 25 years' experience as a senior executive at
          based pricing structure. Omni consolidates the payment   Security  National Automotive Acceptance  Company,
          experience into one easy-to-use platform, offering mer-  USAA Federal Savings Bank, KeyBank and GE Capital.
          chants a cutting-edge dashboard that provides detailed   He is also on the board of PayLink Direct, a financial
          payment data and customer analytics across payment      services firm that provides interest-free payment plans
          channels and allows clients to use Fattmerchant as      for vehicle service contracts.
          their processor but keep existing operations within
          QuickBooks Online, Fattmerchant stated.                 Chargebacks911 appoints Andy Tierney
          Ingenico, 3C Payment collaborate on security            Dispute management specialist Chargebacks911 today
                                                                  appointed Andy  Tierney  as  vice  president  of  strategic
          Ingenico  Group's  Ingenico  Enterprise  Retail  and  3C   accounts. In his role, Tierney will specialize in expand-
          Payment expanded their relationship, to create two new   ing  relationships  with payment  processors,  gateways,
          terminal solutions that process payments through the    acquiring banks and merchants, as well as increas-
          3C Integra Payment Gateway with Ingenico's DESK/5000    ing adoption-rates of Chargebacks911 platforms and
          and MOVE/5000 payment terminals. The new solutions      helping to manage Chargebacks911's rapid growth.
          satisfy the latest security requirements for PCI-PTS 5.x   Tierney has over seven years' experience in the fintech
          and P2PE, with the Telium Tetra Native T3 OS devel-     industry. Before joining Chargebacks911 he was sales
          oped directly to 3C Payment's proprietary Integra gate-  director and head of partnerships at Radial, formerly
          way platform, the partners noted.                       eBay Enterprises. He also served as Director of Channel
                                                                  Partners for CardinalCommerce, a subsidiary of Visa, as
          Triton, Coinsquare bringing                             well as holding leadership positions at Salesforce.com.
          cryptocurrency to U.S. ATMs

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          tomers' everyday ATM experience. "For ATM ISOs this
          means a new, high margin revenue stream that requires
          only  a software update,"  Coinsquare  stated.  The  soft-
          ware uses the existing ATM network and infrastructure
          to execute transactions.
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