ISOs

Choosing the right technology vendors can differentiate independent sales organizations and provide a competitive advantage.

Mary Gerdts came from humble beginnings but re-created herself as a business leader. Along the way, she helped ISOs win the respect of the payments industry.

Discover's’ arrangement to facilitate in-store PayPal transactions illustrates the card brand’s strategy of serving as a multifaceted utility in the payments system.

Too many small merchants operate websites that are difficult to navigate on mobile devices, and they haven’t upgraded point-of-sale terminals to accept mobile payments.

The Western States Acquirers Association and the Electronic Transactions Association are offering scholarships that could pay for 10 qualified candidates to take the ETA’s Certified Payments Professional test.

Two vendors are integrating their products in the hope of keeping security compliance on merchants’ minds nearly every day instead of a few times a year.

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

Executives at VeriFone Systems Inc. are speaking bluntly about the issues plaguing their company as they work to restore customers’ confidence and recruit a CEO.

Some data breaches can’t be prevented. But too many occur when data-storage companies fail to use “aggravatingly simple protections,” a new Javelin Strategy & Research report says.

CardConnect has launched CoPilot, a business management tool for independent sales organizations and sales agents.

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.

LevelUp has made numerous changes to its mobile-payments technology as it has aggressively spread its system to new consumers and merchants alike.

Roam, an Ingenico subsidiary, prides itself on supplying ISOs with all of the components for accepting mobile payments.

AnywhereCommerce is introducing a card reader that plugs into mobile devices to accept both magnetic-stripe and EMV cards.

PayPal will offer free payment processing through the end of 2013 to merchants that “trade in” their cash registers.

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

Surround 360, a package of services for iPads from ShopKeep POS, protects ISOs from competitors out to “steal” merchants.