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and Preferences documents consumers' ATM usage met- nel for which Enacomm's ViA data collection system is
rics in the U.S. national market. The December 2020 deployed.
survey of 3,000 U.S. adults represents a continuation of
a series of consumer and business surveys conducted Linked2pay, PAX team up for integrated payments
annually by Mercator since 2009. This report represents
results for U.S. consumers' use of ATMs, through com- Payments software provider linked2pay reported that
it chose PAX Technology Inc., a payment solutions
monly used graphs with core demographic breakdowns,
for easy incorporation in planning/analysis documents, provider, to deliver an integrated payments solution
for ISVs. The partnership is designed to enable soft-
Mercator stated. Other reports in the series cover such
topics as buy now/pay later lending, bill payment, sub- ware developers to quickly and easily integrate card-
present payments into their software, leveraging PAX
scription buying, fraud experiences and effects of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Android terminals. In addition to card-present capabili-
ties, linked2pay's ISV software developer tools include
APIs to its award-winning platform including credit
PARTNERSHIPS card, check, ACH, instant merchant settlement and real-
time payments, linked2pay noted, adding that its instant
Bluefin, Technotic team up on P2PE merchant settlement allows merchants to access their
funds in minutes, improving cash flow and strengthen-
Bluefin, a provider of payment security technologies, ing their business.
formed a partnership with Technotic Sports to provide
users integrated payment processing backed by PCI- PayNearMe, Green Dot debut bill pay at Walmart
validated P2PE. Technotic Sports offers an efficient,
fast, cost-effective way for universities, arenas and Payment platform PayNearMe stated that as of August
performing arts centers to manage events, fundraising 2021, PayNearMe customers will be able to complete bill
and marketing, Bluefin stated. Through the partner- payment transactions at participating Walmart locations.
ship, Technotic Sports clients can get PCI-validated By expanding its partnership with financial technology
P2PE and integrated payment processing with EMV company Green Dot, PayNearMe will enable consumers
through Bluefin's PayConex payment platform or a to access Green Dot's more than 90,000 retail locations
P2PE gateway-only solution without payment process- nationwide. To pay bills at participating Walmart stores,
ing. PayConex is integrated directly with the Technotic customers will show an associate at the Money Services
Sports platform and will provide debit, credit and ACH desk or Customer Service desk the scannable code on
payments, and ecommerce and EMV retail acceptance. their smartphone, pay with cash and collect a receipt
that confirms the payment is completed. Funds will be
dLocal, Amazon unlock Brazilian market transferred to the biller electronically through a single
consolidated settlement.
Technology-first payments platform dLocal heralded its
new agreement with Amazon devised to enable non- ACQUISITIONS
domestic merchants, for the first time, to sell their prod-
ucts in Brazil on Amazon's online store using dLocal's
new marketplace solution. With dLocal, Amazon can FDCTech to acquire Genesis Financial
now pay its Amazon.com.br international sellers their
revenue share in U.S. dollars. This agreement opens the FDCTech Inc., which provides digital financial services,
Amazon.com.br online store in an unprecedented way agreed to acquire up to 100 percent equity interest in
to international sellers, enabling them to sell their goods Genesis Financial Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction.
in Brazil, speeding both time-to-market and minimizing Under the agreement, GFNL shareholders will receive
operational costs, enabling easier access to the Brazilian 70,000,000 shares of FDCTech, representing an equity
customers, deLocal stated. value of approximately $35 million based on a $0.50 per
share price. "Our new GFNL colleagues should be com-
Enacomm, REDi partner on fraud prevention mended for their efforts, along with those of our team,
to achieve this turning point for the company," stated
Fintech enablement company Enacomm partnered with Mitchell M. Eaglstein, co-founder and CEO of FDCTech.
REDi Enterprise Development Inc., a risk manage- "[T]he new direction will create a fintech driven, well-
ment software company, to provide communication diversified financial services powerhouse."
channels for REDi's alerts to all of its customers' users,
and integrate REDi's fraud-prevention technologies into Paramount acquires B&B Financial
Enacomm's ViA (Virtual Interactive Analyst) and Fraud
Control Module offerings. ViA is Enacomm's analytics Paramount Management Group acquired the assets of
tool that features real-time activity tracking, reporting, B&B Financial Services, an independent ATM deployer.
monitoring, and alerting, the partners stated, adding The acquisition adds 1,500 units to the Paramount net-
that Enacomm's Fraud Control Module allows users work of retail and financial institution ATMs, further
to detect, track and respond to fraud across any chan- expanding the company's footprint on the East Coast of

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