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Pulse Commerce joins BigCommerce network USAePay supports Actum on ACH
As a BigCommerce Certified Technology Partner, Pulse USAePay formed a strategic partnership with Actum
Commerce now offers BigCommerce customers access Processing LLC, an ACH payment solutions provider
to its enterprise order and inventory platform through that enables resellers and software providers to expand
the BigCommerce App Marketplace. "BigCommerce their client base and retain relationships. Partnering
Enterprise, coupled with our Order & Inventory with USAePay will allow Actum to appeal to a greater
Platform, evens the playing field for multichannel and number of subscribers as they work together to identify
omnichannel merchants of all sizes, enabling them to methods that optimize ACH performance and minimiz-
hold their own against their largest competitors," said es risk for merchants, the companies noted.
Pulse Commerce CEO Manish Chowdhary.
WEX partners with GasBuddy
RapidAdvance partners with iPayment
WEX Inc. forged an alliance with fuel-price and gas
Online small business funding provider RapidAdvance station locator app provider GasBuddy to focus on the
partnered with iPayment Inc. Under terms of the agree- retail gasoline market and deliver innovations that bring
ment, iPayment will offer RapidAdvance's business added convenience and savings to U.S. consumer driv-
lending solutions and alternative financing programs ers. The alliance also represents a continued focus by
to merchant customers. iPayment will also leverage WEX to expand the company's offering to the business-
RapidAdvance's technology-driven platform and per- to-business-to-consumer market. "We are excited to part-
sonalized support to increase visibility. ner with GasBuddy to explore bringing new levels of
convenience and value to the marketplace," said Nicola
Recondo collaborates with HealthPay24 Morris, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
at WEX.
Recondo Technology partnered with HealthPay24 to
integrate patient cost estimation with payment process-
ing services at each point of service. The partnership ACQUISITIONS
is expected to provide hospitals and patients with the
information needed to conduct quick, transparent pay- Fiserv purchases Monitise
ment collections. "Now, hospitals can easily collect pay-
ments from healthcare consumers at any point of service, Fiserv Inc. reached agreement on terms of a recom-
accelerating highly accurate, earlier collections," stated mended cash offer to acquire Monitise plc. The acquisi-
Jay Deady, CEO at Recondo. tion is expected to accelerate Fiserv's digital strategy
and development of a next-generation digital banking
Shift4 pairs technologies with Oracle platform for leading financial institutions worldwide.
Through the acquisition, anticipated to close in Q3 2017,
Shift4 Corp. integrated its Dollars on the Net pay- Fiserv will expand its suite of technologies, including
ment gateway with the Oracle Payment Interface (OPI). FINkit, that enable financial institutions to accelerate
The integration will provide fast, secure and reliable digital strategies.
payment processing to merchants using Oracle's POS
and property management solutions, the partners said. Misys, D+H merge as new company: Finastra
Shift4's U.S. EMV certification with OPI supports chip-
and-PIN, chip-and-signature and Quick Chip verifica- Misys and D+H joined forces to create a diversified
tion methods and offers the ability to use a number of global financial software provider named Finastra. The
EMV-capable payment devices. combination creates the third largest financial services
technology company in the world with approximately
SmartCard Marketing teams 10,000 employees and over 9,000 customers across 130
with CardLogix, Axepay countries. The move follows the acquisition of D+H by
Vista Equity Partners Management LLC, which also
SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. teamed with owns Misys. Finastra will be led by Nadeem Syed in the
CardLogix Corp. to integrate its cloud-hosted payment role of CEO, previously CEO of Misys.
architecture with CardLogix' smart card platforms.
SmartCard Marketing also partnered with Axepay Inc. Pin4 acquires majority stake in HCI
to deliver China cross-border RMB payments, as well
as Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering HalCash North America, operating as Pin4 in the United
services for merchants dealing with Chinese customers. States market since its launch in 2015, acquired majority
equity ownership in HalCash International. Madrid-
based HCI is the developer and owner of the HalCash
system – a patented, mobile-phone-based technology
that enables real-time cardless cash withdrawals at
ATMs without requiring a credit or debit card or bank
account.
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