Card Briefs: Visa-Total System Venture Signs 1st Client

First of Omaha Merchant Processing has become the first acquirer to enter an agreement with Vital Processing Services, the joint venture of Visa U.S.A. and Total System Services Inc.

The subsidiary of First National Bank of Omaha said it will continue to provide its merchants authorization, settlement, backroom operations, and customer service for transaction processing.

Under the five-year contract, Vital will provide most of the authorization services, said Elias Eliopoulous, president of First of Omaha Merchant Processing. VisaNet, now a part of Vital, had done that for the acquirer before.

First of Omaha is ranked seventh as a national credit card processor, processing $13.3 billion in sales volume in 1995.

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