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                                 The latest from Merchant Sales Podcast
                                    The Merchant Sales Podcast continues to augment and amplify The Green Sheet
                                    Inc.'s online and print resources by providing a convenient way for new and sea-
                                    soned payment professionals to listen, learn and become inspired. A joint proj-
                                    ect of The Green Sheet and CCSalesPro.com, the podcast is hosted by industry
                                    veterans Patti Murphy and James Shepherd. It features interviews with industry
                                    leaders, discussions of ongoing and emerging issues and trends, and strategies
                                    for ISOs and merchant level salespeople can use to improve sales results. Recent
                                    episodes include:
            Recent episodes include:
                  •  Leveraging transaction data for social media marketing: Learn how to leverage POS data from
                     Clover and other solutions for social media marketing with Adszy. In today's episode, Jon Grayem
                     from Adszy explains how his software allows your merchants to easily create facebook and
                     Instagram ad campaigns and then track the ROI from in store purchases. James talks about agent
                     recruiting and Patti talks about mobile and contactless payment trends.
                  •  Scaling up your small ISO: Learn about challenges small ISOs face when scaling up, as well as
                     tools and processes that can help. James and Patti kick off the discussion with Ben Griefer, COO at
                     Maverick Payments. James offers additional insights, homing in on elements of a successful train-
                     ing strategy. And Patti reports on how banks and the card brands are seeing double-digit growth
                     in interchange revenues.
                  •  Learn about selling check guarantee to big-ticket merchants: Travis Power, Vice President of Partner &
                     ISO Relations at CrossCheck, describes opportunities for selling check guarantee services to merchants
                     transacting large-ticket purchases. Plus James wraps-up his series on Building a Merchant Sales Team,
                     focusing on steps and strategies for activating sales reps. And Patti reports on upcoming changes to
                     interchange rates.
                  Catch them via our podcast page, www.greensheet.com/podcasts.php, or wherever you access podcasts.


        ANNOUNCEMENTS                                             Health iPASS secures funding
                                                                  from Fifth Third Capital

          Central Payments selects Fall Fintech cohort            Health iPASS received an investment from Fifth Third
          Central Payments unveiled the first group of companies   Capital Holdings, an affiliate of Fifth Third Bank
          that will join the Spring 2020 cohort for Falls Fintech,   N.A.  Health  iPASS is  a patient revenue  cycle solution
                                                                  designed for medical practices seeking to reduce or
          the company's business accelerator program geared
          towards early-stage financial technology (fintech) com-  eliminate patient  accounts  receivables and bad debt.
                                                                  Health iPASS said the investment from Fifth Third will
          panies. The cohort includes New York-based Build
          Financial; Invest Sou Sou, located in Washington D.C.;   provide capital to help enable the company to offer a
                                                                  non-recourse guarantee of patient payments and will
          California-based Permiso; Soon, situated in Utah; and
          Washington-based XpenseOne.                             also fund several other upcoming company initiatives.
                                                                  InFront Compliance launches
          Falls Fintech is a 10-week program designed to acceler-
          ate market readiness for early-stage fintech companies   InFront Compliance Inc., a provider of vendor risk
          and promote breakthrough of the last-mile problems      management solutions, launched officially on March
          facing fintech companies today. The Spring 2020 cohort   4, 2020. Founded by seasoned technology lawyers with
          is set to run March 9 through May 15. During the        a deep understanding of the fast-evolving regulatory
          10 weeks, participating companies will receive high-    landscape, InFront said it offers a secure digital solution
          intensity curriculum with an elite network of financial,   built on extensive expertise and an intuitive interface
          payment and technology professionals across the globe   that is accessible across an entire organization.

                                                                  Focused on serving organizations in the highly regulat-
                                                                  ed banking, credit union, fintech and defense industries,


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