Ed McKinley

Independent sales organizations can expect business to continue as usual with First Data Corp. despite new faces in top management at the Atlanta-based transaction processor.

Above all else, independent sales organizations and sales agents should make sure their residual payments never end.

The Federal Trade Commission's recent lawsuits against two independent sales organizations for alleged violations of the Telemarketing Sales Rule may be the "tip of the iceberg" of regulatory action against the acquiring industry.

The ATM Industry Association is offering five reasons to support the ATM Industry U.S. Defense Fund.

Pundits admonish independent sale organizations to “go beyond” providing transaction services by offering value-added products that help merchants increase profits. Here’s an ISO that’s doing exactly that.

Total Merchant Services, a 17-year-old Woodland Hills, Calif.-based ISO, began transforming itself into a more tech-oriented company a year-and-a-half ago when the founders, brothers Ed and Matt Freedman, hired Joe Kaplan as CEO.

AnywhereCommerce is introducing a card reader about the size of a Zippo lighter that plugs into the audio jacks of mobile devices to accept both magnetic-stripe and chip-and-signature EMV payment cards.

ShopKeep POS designed Surround 360, its iPad point of sale software, to protect independent sales organizations from competitors out to "steal" merchant clients.

Priority Payment Systems is offering a new payments platform called Priority MedPay that the company says speeds up collections and reduces administrative costs for medical providers.

Cash is flourishing in the digital era, “Freakonomics” author Stephen Dubner asserts in a video the ATM Industry Association posted on YouTube and other social-media sites.

US Merchant Systems, an ISO with 100,000 retail locations, is providing data analytics to customers through Womply Insights.

Newtek Business Services, a New York-based national super-ISO, intends to expand its stable of 10 or so active independent sales organizations to as many as 250.

Two payments technology veterans are working on a mobile wallet that would not require changes to the hardware and software at the point of sale.

The biggest names in digital payments — PayPal, Isis, Google — have one thing in common: they all have a relationship with Discover Financial Services.

Financial Transaction Services is rebranding by taking on the name of its recently acquired payments gateway—CardConnect—and moving its headquarters to King of Prussia, Pa., to consolidate its operations.

The Washington-based Electronic Transactions Association is taking the first step in what could become a new mission as an international trade group.

The CEO of SignaPay, an Irving, Texas-based acquirer with 14,000 merchants, says he's again taking an active role in the day-to-day business of moving the company forward.

Signature Card Services, a Los Angeles-based independent sales organization, is making sure its sales agents and merchants understand the benefits of EMV chip cards.

The organizers of a brand new Dallas-based acquiring and processing company called Anovia Payments plan to operate in 23 countries by the end of next year.

Kim Fitzsimmons has had a remarkable run — first woman CEO of a major acquiring company, current president of the Electronic Transactions Association, immediate past president of Women Networking in Electronic Transactions and recipient of the Midwest Acquirers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.