Press Releases
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11/18/19 2:30 am ESTDUBLIN & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, global merchant acquirer and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has agreed to acquire Sage Pay, a well-known and established payments gateway business in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sage Pay is a division of The Sage Group plc (SGE), a FTSE-listed market leader in cloud business management solutions. The acquisition is part of Elavon’s strategy to help its business customers grow as the global economy becomes more digital, and asmore...
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9/17/19 11:13 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Joe Myers, a 20-year veteran in global sales and financial services, has been named chief revenue officer and president of Elavon North America. Myers has been with Elavon since 2011, most recently leading the sales division in North America. “Joe is highly regarded not only within our business, but across the organization and among our customers and partners,” said Jamie Walker, chief executive officer of Elavon. “Our industry is changing rapidly. Managing throughmore...
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9/9/19 3:30 pm EDTMINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. Bank has acquired talech, a Palo Alto-based software company that helps small and medium-sized businesses simplify operations and make better decisions through an integrated point-of-sale system. This acquisition is one of the many ways U.S. Bank is increasing its digital expertise to provide value when and where customers interact with technology. Established in 2012, talech provides software that allows businesses to manage multiple operational tasks –more...
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7/9/19 8:40 am EDTWhile the global implementation of EMV chip technology has reduced fraud activity for card payments, the payments ecosystem is still battling the threat of new and emerging fraud payment schemes online. Brighterion, a Mastercard company, and Elavon, a global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bank, have announced they will work together to integrate Brighterion’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platform into Elavon’s network to minimize fraud and manage risk. “The explosion ofmore...
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6/6/19 10:30 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a leading global payments provider, and Regions Bank have agreed to extend their long-standing relationship to continue offering innovative and secure payment solutions to Regions’ business customers. Since 1992, Elavon and Regions have grown together to be one of the leading merchant services providers in the Southeast. This partnership brings expanded capabilities to customers of Regions Bank including themore...
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5/30/19 11:33 am EDTElavon, a global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bank, is the only company to win more than two awards at the 2019 Card Not Present (CNP) Awards. Elavon was chosen by the judges in the Best eCommerce Platform/Gateway category for its Converge platform, and it swept both the judges and customer choice awards in the Best Processor category."I want to extend my sincerest congratulations to all the winners of this year's CNP Awards," said D.J. Murphy, editor-in-chief of Card Not Presentmore...
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5/14/19 11:42 am EDTNew Amadeus B2B Wallet Partner Pay solution simplifies how travel agencies pay airlinesTravel agencies made payments worth at least $236 Billion to airlines in 2017 alone, according to IATA. Yet, today’s approach to making such payments remains costly and complex. It’s against that backdrop that Amadeus, Elavon and Mastercard have partnered to deliver an innovative payments approach that benefits both travel agents and airlines.The Amadeus B2B Wallet Partner Pay solution is already reducingmore...
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4/4/19 10:31 am EDTElavon, a global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, has agreed a new partnership with financial services group Societe Generale for payments acceptance and acquiring services across Europe. Societe Generale’s business clients will now have access to Elavon’s cross-border payment capabilities in the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. This will complement Societe Generale’s established payments infrastructure (face-to-facemore...
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3/14/19 9:00 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a leading global payments provider, and Union Bank have agreed to extend their multi-year alliance for the third time in their 25-year partnership, which adds a focus on expanding into vertical markets such as healthcare and enhancements to tools and services making it easier for clients to manage and grow their business. “Being able to offer Elavon’s customizable and scalable payment solutions has reallymore...
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2/26/19 10:56 am ESTCanada Jetlines Ltd. (JET: TSX-V) (JETMF: OTCQB) (the “Company” or “Jetlines”) is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Elavon, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), as its payment processing partner of choice.Elavon provides end-to-end payment processing solutions and services to more than 1.3 million customers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and is a leading payments provider to airlines around the world.Elavon willmore...
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2/13/19 10:00 am ESTWomply, the leader in front office software for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced it has partnered with Elavon, a global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), to launch a web-based solution that helps merchants attract, retain and engage with customers with real-time insight into their business.In recent years, small businesses have adopted technology at an unprecedented rate, thanks in part to an expanding menu of value-added products andmore...
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2/12/19 8:00 am ESTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a leading healthcare payments provider, looked deeper into the healthcare payments experience by interviewing hundreds of patients and healthcare information technology (HIT) executives across the U.S. Results of its two-part survey showed that while views align in many areas, including the need to make the overall patient payment experience better, views differ on innovations and how patients prefer to accessmore...
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2/7/19 10:05 am ESTElavon announced today that it has launched a more integrated payment approach for public sector entities, including local and state government agencies, to accept American Express® Cards. This approach will enable Elavon, a global payments leader that simplifies how businesses and organizations accept payments, to provide significant efficiencies for public sector clients, and enable community members to use American Express to pay for services, including public utilities, education fees,more...
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1/30/19 1:18 pm ESTElavon, a global leader in payment processing, has expanded its presence in Atlanta with a build-out at the Concourse campus in the city of Sandy Springs. Elavon has also hired 120 new employees in the past year as it expands its ability to offer more businesses safe, secure payment options for their customers. As part of the investment, and to support future growth, Elavon plans to hire approximately 500 employees globally over the next three years. It currently employs more than 850more...
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1/9/19 3:30 pm ESTMINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, has acquired CenPOS, a Miami-based company offering integrated payment software solutions to large enterprises. CenPOS focuses on three industry verticals: automotive, travel and entertainment (T&E), and general business-to-business transactions, which aligns well with Elavon’s strengths. In addition, CenPOS’ distribution strategy and productmore...
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12/6/18 8:05 am ESTATLANTA (Dec. 6, 2018) — Elavon, a global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), announced a new and significant, three-year financial commitment at the Georgia Institute of Technology to further accelerate innovation across financial and payments technologies (FinTech).The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech is Georgia’s technology incubator. It focuses on building and growing FinTech companies in the state of Georgia. Elavon’s financialmore...
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11/13/18 8:31 am ESTATLANTA (Nov. 13, 2018) — Elavon, a global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has made a minority investment in Poynt, a producer of smart terminals and a long-time partner of Elavon. The investment enables Elavon’s continued growth in eCommerce and integrated payments, by expanding an existing partnership between Elavon and Poynt to provide application developers and merchants innovative, point-of-sale (POS) solutions and applications that help grow their businessesmore...
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10/12/18 11:26 am EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), has announced that it will temporarily suspend its processing and acquiring service fees for customers impacted by Hurricane Michael.“In the wake of a devastating storm like Hurricane Michael, our thoughts are first and foremost on the safety and well-being of those impacted by the events,” said Joe Myers, Executive Vice President and General Manager – United States. “When the focus should be on recovery, wemore...
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10/9/18 9:30 am EDTElavon Makes Payment Certifications Faster and Easier than Ever for Software and Hardware DevelopersATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon today announced the launch of its self-test platform, which offers payment hardware and software providers an accelerated way to streamline card brand and EMV certifications. The platform significantly reduces final certification time from the typical four weeks process to just 24-48 hours. The platform also saves developers money by eliminating the need to engage third parties. “The speed at which newmore...
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9/4/18 9:00 am EDTMINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, global merchant payment processing provider and subsidiary of Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp, has acquired Electronic Transaction Systems (ETS), a financial technology company based in Virginia. The acquisition will allow Elavon to integrate payment processing into ETS’ software, and provide businesses a safe and easy way to access Elavon’s services. Increasingly, business owners expect that the software packages they usemore...
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6/20/18 12:23 pm EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon just eliminated the need for hotels to print and store paper copies of customer card data. Today, the leading global payments provider announced Converge Hospitality, a digital invoicing system for the hotel industry. The system makes it safer and more convenient for customers to pay for deposits on events and concierge-like services at hotels, while eliminating the need to send card data remotely. Currently, hotelmore...
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5/23/18 1:21 pm EDTBoth the Judges and Customers recognized Elavon as Best Processor for 2018. Elavon, a subsidiary of U.S. Bankcorp, provides end-to-end payment-processing solutions and services to more than 1.1 million customers across 30-plus countries, supporting over 100 currencies globally. Read more on the CNP Awards site.more...
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5/7/18 8:52 am EDTBERLIN (May, 7, 2018) – Elavon, a leading, trusted global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has invested in Tillhub, an innovative provider of iPad-based point-of-sale systems (POS) for both small and medium-sized enterprises and large chain stores. This investment establishes a partnership that will benefit European businesses by providing them with an innovative POS system that simplifies how they manage and run their business.Founded in 2015, Berlin-based Tillhubmore...
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4/24/18 10:00 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), today announced its Safe-T Link® with P2PE Protect received validation as a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards CouncilTM Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE)TM solution. Receiving this level of validation gives Elavon customers the strongest encryption protection by making data less valuable if stolen. The validation underscores Elavon’s commitment tomore...
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4/4/18 9:52 am EDTElavon, a global payments company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), is investing in its integrated payments and eCommerce businesses and expanding its presence in Atlanta, with a plan to hire approximately 180 new employees during the next three years. Elavon will lease additional space in the Concourse campus located in the city of Sandy Springs, part of the Atlanta metro area.Elavon currently employs more than 730 people in Atlanta and more than 4,300 worldwide. Withmore...
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3/1/18 10:33 am ESTSantander UK, via its merchant acquiring partner Elavon, will from the Spring, enable its Business and Corporate customers to join the growing European networks of well-known Chinese payment wallet providers, across e-commerce solutions.Through Elavon, Santander customers will have the option to accept these Chinese payment methods (including UnionPay and other relevant Chinese fintech companies which offer these services) online via their own websites from early 2018. Elavon plans to expandmore...
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2/27/18 11:03 am ESTWith the patient financial experience continuing to be a top priority for healthcare providers, Elavon, a global payments company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), and RevSpring, a provider of intelligent communications and payment solutions to more than 2,000 leading financial services, healthcare providers, and healthcare technology companies throughout the United States, have partnered to help them maximize online billing and payments through integrated, securemore...
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1/30/18 10:56 pm ESTAgilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced general availability of its Lodging Management System® (LMS) version 7.3.6 for those customer that are not ready to move to LMS 7.4. This version includes several enhancements for payment options, such as support for rGuest® Pay Connect and rGuest® Pay iFrame. Agilysys LMS is recognized as one of the hospitality industry's premier property managementmore...
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11/28/17 4:24 pm ESTSalePoint today announced that it has signed a partner agreement with Elavon, one of the nation’s largest payment processors, to offer secure, omni-commerce payment solutions to its customers. The Elavon solutions will be jointly marketed with SalePoint’s retail systems solutions.“SalePoint has been providing retailers with omni-channel solutions for over 30 years and efficient card processing has been a key component of our offering,” said Paul Streicher, president of SalePoint. Streichermore...
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11/27/17 4:20 pm ESTPatientWorks today announced that it has signed an agreement with Elavon, a global payments company and wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), to offer secure, omni-commerce payment solutions to its customers. Elavon’s solutions will be jointly marketed with PatientWorks’ self-service check-in solutions, KioskWorks®, CheckinWorks® and PortalWorks®.“As a key provider of patient self-service solutions, PatientWorks provides secure payment processing solutions as a significantmore...
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10/22/17 10:36 pm EDTLONDON (Oct. 23, 2017) – Elavon has named Hannah Fitzsimons General Manager and leader of its merchant services business in Europe.Fitzsimons joined Elavon in 2006 and has held a number of roles, including European business development director. Most recently, she was country manager for the United Kingdom and international corporate business with responsibility for strategy, revenue and business execution. She has more than 20 years of experience in the European payments industry, leadingmore...
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10/10/17 11:14 am EDTTORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a global payments company and wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and California-based Poynt are bringing the Poynt Smart Terminal to businesses across Canada. Poynt is a wireless, dual touchscreen, smart terminal that allows businesses to accept payments anywhere. “Poynt makes the payment experience easy and engaging for customers, which is not something they’ve experienced with traditional paymentmore...
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10/4/17 8:00 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), is expanding its payment facilitator (PF) business with the launch of Scoop®, a payment facilitator co-op that enhances and expands Elavon’s partnerships with PFs all over the world. Payment facilitators are a growing payments industry sector. They act as third parties that can establish merchant acceptance agreements on behalf of an acquirermore...
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9/8/17 3:12 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), has announced that it will temporarily suspend its processing and acquiring service fees for customers impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. “Many of our merchant customers in Houston and surrounding areas are suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey,” said Guy Harris, president of North America and Global Revenue for Elavon. “By waiving our fees and helping them quickly replace damagedmore...
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7/12/17 8:00 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), is improving the healthcare bill payment process for hospitals, health systems, and patients alike with the launch of One Bill, a consumer-friendly, electronic billing solution available through Payment Navigator®, powered by InstaMed. One Bill improves transparency for consumers by presenting a single consolidated statement to a patient, even ifmore...
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6/29/17 5:17 pm EDTATLANTA – (June 28, 2017) – Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (USB: NYSE), has teamed with Infor, a cloud-based business software provider, to offer hotel owners with security tools to help protect guests’ credit and debit card transactions.EMV (Eurocard, MasterCard and Visa) adoption continues to grow in the United States, so Infor Hospitality has extended its relationship with Elavon to offer clients a fully certified EMV solution that will helpmore...
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6/26/17 3:16 pm EDTUS Bancorp subsidiary Elavon and California-based Poynt are excited to announce their plan to together bring the Poynt Smart Terminal to the wider international market, beginning with Europe. The terminal is expected to disrupt the European market, bringing the same advanced payment device that features the latest in payment acceptance technology, pre-installed security features and software application platform currently available in the U.S to small to mid-sized businesses inmore...
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6/26/17 3:14 pm EDTQS/1 is excited to announce it has added another certification through Elavon to process transactions for Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) compliant cards. “QS/1 continues to give our pharmacy customers as many options as possible to accept this new credit card standard,” said Sonny Anderson, QS/1’s vice president of Systems and Technology. “Being certified by Elavon allows QS/1 to process EMV payments through its system.” QS/1 offered the independent and small-chain pharmacy industrymore...
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6/8/17 8:00 am EDTTORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consumers across Canada can now “tap and pay” using their Android devices. Elavon, a leading payments solution provider in Canada, has partnered with Google to enable the Android Pay™ mobile payments technology at merchant locations across the country. "We're excited to bring the simplicity and security of mobile payments to Elavon customers with Android Pay," said Pali Bhat, Global Head of Payment Products at Google. "People throughoutmore...
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4/25/17 8:00 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To help small businesses such as clothing boutiques and local restaurants meet the growing consumer shift to online channels, leading payments provider Elavon now offers two digital commerce tools that create a unique, online customer experience – Converge Digital Commerce with 3dcart and Online Ordering with talech. Elavon has teamed up with 3dcart, a leading shopping cart software provider, to offer an online storefront to businessesmore...
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3/23/17 10:20 am EDTVisa has revealed that contactless payments are surging in popularity as Irish consumers are making more than three million contactless payments with Visa debit cards every week. Usage has almost tripled since the end of March 2016, with weekly transactions jumping from 1.3 million contactless payments per week to just over 3 million payments at the end of last year. As a result, five contactless transactions are made with Visa cards everymore...
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3/23/17 10:13 am EDTContactless payments are surging in popularity in Ireland as more than three million customers make payments with their debit cards every week, according to a statement issued by Visa today (23 March.) It outlined that the increase in the payment threshold from €15 to €30 as well as wider adoption of contactless payment terminals by retailers is a contributing factor to the spike in usage. Commenting on the new milestone,more...
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3/16/17 10:24 am EDTJamie Walker has been named chief executive officer (CEO) of Atlanta-based Elavon, Inc., a leading global payments company and wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB). Walker is transitioning from his current role as chief administrative officer (CAO) for U.S. Bank’s Payment Services division, a role he has held for two years During Walker’s 16-year tenure with U.S. Bank, he has successfully managed the finances of Elavon’smore...
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2/17/17 10:31 am ESTElavon Ireland country manager takes the Business & Finance 60-second challenge. Q. What was your first job? I was a greenkeeper. It’s the best job in the world when the sun is shining – not great when it’s raining! Q. What would you regard as your greatest achievement to date? It has to be my family and my four kids. Sporting wise: playing for the Dublin seniors. Q. What’s the bestmore...
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2/14/17 10:50 am ESTRestaurateurs and coffee shop owners across the country can get a wealth of data on their customers’ buying habits thanks to an innovative new system from payment services provider Elavon. Called talech, it turns iPads into a complete point of sale solution for small businesses. As well as processing payments tableside, it enables restaurateurs to organise table plans; take, manage and print orders; track inventory and even manage staffmore...
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2/13/17 10:56 am ESTTechnologies such as the cloud, software enhancements and applications are changing the types of services that are available to manage your business. The next generation of electronic point of sales (ePOS) is now here. Brought to you by talech, in association with Elavon, our combined restaurant solution means you can take card payments, organise table plans, manage staff and take orders. With real time reporting and actionablemore...
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2/10/17 11:05 am ESTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (USB: NYSE), has been named a Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) FinTech ADVANCE Award recipient in the inaugural year of the awards. TAG FinTech ADVANCE winners represent established companies with a connection to Georgia and provide proven innovative solutions that bring measurable results, TAG said when announcing the award winners. Among Elavon’s manymore...
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11/16/16 9:52 am ESTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (USB: NYSE), and Systems Innovators (SI), a leading enterprise revenue management and centralized cashiering provider, have teamed up with government agencies to deploy a payment system that helps protect citizens’ information, helps prevent fraud and provides industry-compliant EMV technology. Jeff Sumner, executive vice president of System Innovators, said, “Wemore...
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10/18/16 10:52 am EDTATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Running a business and growing it can be stressful, but finding the right payment terminal shouldn’t add to a business owner’s daily workload. U.S. Bancorp subsidiary Elavon and California-based Poynt today announced a partnership to offer one of the most advanced payment devices available to small to mid-sized businesses in the U.S., featuring the latest in payment acceptance technology, pre-installed security features and a broad rangemore...
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9/26/16 4:26 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has released enhancements to Payment Navigator, its healthcare payments solution designed to help providers better manage their revenue cycle, while also improving the patient experience. Payment Navigator, powered by InstaMed, improves the likelihood that providers receive payment for their services by making it easy and convenient for patients tomore...
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9/12/16 4:18 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payment solution provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), is launching a tablet-based payment solution in Canada that will provide small and medium-sized businesses with secure, interactive payment processing, powerful data analytics and affordability to help businesses effectively manage and grow their businesses. The solution is the result of a relationship between Elavon and talech, a fast-more...
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9/2/16 4:15 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), has announced that it will suspend its processing and acquiring service fees from August through Oct. for customers suffering through some of the worst flooding ever seen in Louisiana. “The floods that have devastated Baton Rouge have left business owners without the ability to provide their Parishes with the goods and services they need,” saidmore...
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7/18/16 4:10 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), and Capital Bank Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: CBF), a leading southeastern regional bank, have signed an expanded multi-year agreement for payment processing that enhances a relationship that began in December 2005. Capital Bank will continue to use Elavon’s innovative payments technology exclusively. The new agreement forms a relationship in whichmore...
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7/18/16 3:51 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), today announced that it is now the preferred processing partner for ZirMed, a leading provider of cloud-based revenue cycle management solutions for the healthcare industry. The new, multi-year agreement between Elavon and ZirMed advances their existing relationship by extending EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) chip technology and Point-to-more...
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6/22/16 3:28 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, has been voted the People’s Choice Stevie Award Winner for Favorite New Product for its Commerce SDK solution, a software development kit that enables businesses to implement a secure payment solution into their point-of-sale application. Commerce SDK in May won a Bronze award in the New Product or Service of the Year category for Electronic Commerce Solution inmore...
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6/21/16 3:13 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has been chosen by Ariane Systems, a world leader in self-service check-in/out technology for the hospitality industry, to provide its Simplify security solution to Ariane’s more than 3,000 hotel customers in 25 countries. “Adding integration with Elavon for our online and kiosk check-in is an innovative addition to our self-servicemore...
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6/20/16 3:23 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments solution provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), provides access to Apple Pay and now supports the additional card brands most used by Canadian consumers. Interac®, Visa® and MasterCard® have been added in addition to American Express®. Elavon is among the first payment processing companies to offer Apple Pay to Canadian businesses, and provides support for in-person payments, as well as inmore...
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6/14/16 3:03 pm EDTThe Stinking Rose, San Francisco’s prized restaurant specializing in all things garlic, has leaped into the new normal of accepting Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) payments by becoming EMV certified, thanks to Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp. Elavon is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) and integrated its Simplify EMV solution within Oracle’s Point-of-Sale application on behalfmore...
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6/13/16 1:53 pm EDTElavon Inc., a leading global payments provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has named Mia Huntington senior vice president and general manager for Canada. Huntington has worked at Elavon for 10 years, where she has led eCommerce Business Development and other key partner relationships in the region. In her new role, she leads a team of Sales, Business Product and Operations professionals who support Elavon’smore...
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4/26/16 1:46 pm EDTU.S. Bank has launched Deal Local, a new mobile app designed to help local businesses attract new customers and build loyalty with their existing customers through deals and rewards. Exclusive to Lawrence as a pilot, the app is live in the Apple and Google Play app stores and is already being used by Mass St. favorites Weaver’s, Milton’s Café and Hobbs, among others. “We designed Deal Local to help locally-owned small businesses growmore...
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4/6/16 1:42 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), has signed a multi-year agreement with leading membership club Costco Wholesale Canada to extend its business relationship offering payment processing services to Costco members in Canada. Elavon has offered its preferred payment processing program to Costco Canada members since 2005. “Elavon has delivered exceptional value and service to Canadianmore...
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2/24/16 1:34 pm ESTJamie Walker has been named chief administrative officer (CAO) for U.S. Bank Payment Services, transitioning from his current role as chief financial officer for Elavon, the bank’s merchant acquiring subsidiary. The new Elavon CFO will be Bradley Herring, former CFO of the Digital Banking Group at Fiserv. In his new role, Walker is responsible for developing and implementing strategic plans, facilitating administrative and financialmore...
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2/8/16 1:27 pm ESTJust four months after the EMV liability shift took place, MasterCard® reports that Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, is among MasterCard’s leading acquiring partners for growing acceptance of EMV transactions. Since the Oct. 1, 2015 liability shift date occurred, approximately 38 percent of Elavon’s U.S. customer locations are actively accepting chip card transactions, significantly higher than themore...
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2/4/16 1:18 pm ESTElavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and a leading global payments provider, has worked closely with Cancer Research UK to build the foundations for a contactless donations service which will allow consumers to use their cards when donating to the charity on 4 February. It will be the first mobile contactless only donations service roll-out of its kind in the world. As of November 2015, there were a total of 78.3mmore...
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1/4/16 1:13 pm ESTElavon, a leading payments solution provider in Canada and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), now offers its customers access to Apple Pay™. Following the recent launch of Apple Pay in Canada for American Express cardholders, Elavon is among the first payment processing companies to offer Apple Pay to Canadian businesses. Apple Pay works with current Elavon EMV-contactless point of sale terminals in Canada. To pay, consumers simplymore...
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10/5/15 1:06 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), today announced that it will be the provider-of-choice for EMV, Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) and tokenization technology for athenahealth, a leading provider of cloud-based services and mobile applications for medical groups and health systems. All three technologies are part of Elavon’s Simplify software, which offers a layered approach tomore...
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9/29/15 12:58 pm EDTThe National Cyber Security Alliance states that 71 percent of data breaches occur at small businesses (SMBs) with less than 100 employees. Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), now offers Safe-T Security Solutions for SMBs to offer the same level of payment security protection that national brands utilize in their efforts to keep customers and their businesses secure. Consistent withmore...
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9/21/15 12:37 pm EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, and Costco Wholesale Corp. (“Costco”) have agreed to extend their relationship to offer payment processing solutions to Costco’s array of small to mid-size business customers. “Since 1997, Elavon has delivered exceptional value and service to members who use our payment processing as well as our other popular business products,” said Tom Padilla, Assistant Vicemore...
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9/10/15 12:25 pm EDTAndroid Pay™, a safe and secure way for customers to make mobile payments and for merchants to accept mobile payments, is beginning to roll out to customers of U.S. Bank and Elavon, the global acquiring subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB). Android Pay will be available for download on Google Play in the next few days, and will come preinstalled on new NFC-enabled Android phones from major carriers. With Android Pay, U.S. Bankmore...
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8/4/15 12:08 pm EDTJunior Achievement of Georgia (JA), an organization dedicated to empowering young people to own their future economic success, and Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), have extended their partnership to bring JA BizTown and JA Finance Park to more than 25,000 Gwinnet County middle school students. The Gwinnett location is an expansion from Junior Achievement's Chick-fil-A Foundationmore...
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7/14/15 11:55 am EDTPayments company Elavon announced it will offer its customers access to Apple Pay starting today in the UK. Elavon was one of the first payment processing companies to offer Apple Pay to businesses in the US and it will be taking a similar lead in the UK. Andrew Key, President of Europe for Elavon said: “Our business customers will love bringing the convenience and security of Apple Pay to their customers. We're thrilled to enable ourmore...
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7/6/15 11:31 am EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), and Emdeon, a leading provider of software-based solutions, network solutions and technology-enabled services that optimize communications, payments and analytics by leveraging its intelligent healthcare network platform, today announced the launch of Transend Pay, an innovative payments processing platform for hospitals and healthcare providers thatmore...
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6/16/15 11:23 am EDTElavon, a leading provider of payment solutions and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) has signed a multi-year agreement with Wyndham Hotel Group to integrate secure payment technology for approximately 4,500 of the company’s more than 7,600 hotels over the next 18 months. The integration leverages Elavon’s Fusebox gateway and Simplify payment security software application to remove cardholder data from each hotel’s Propertymore...
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5/19/15 11:15 am EDTPhil Agcaoili, senior vice president and chief information security officer for Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has been elected to serve on the 2015-2017 PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors. Agcaoili is one of 28 board members to join the PCI Council, which is comprised a group of global organizations that represent all parts of the payments ecosystem, including merchantsmore...
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5/18/15 11:05 am EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), promotes Brett Turner as head of its global airlines acquiring business, succeeding John Follert, who retired in late March. A 30-year veteran in the industry, Turner will be responsible for growing and maintaining Elavon’s leadership position in global airline acquiring. “The high demand for fast and secure payments continues to challenge themore...
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5/8/15 10:55 am EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), announced the promotion of Wally Mlynarski to senior vice president of global product and innovation. He will be responsible for overseeing the company’s global, cross-functional product development teams and for driving the rollout of innovative and industry-leading initiatives, including mobile payment solutions, EMV migration and security solutions,more...
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4/6/15 10:42 am EDTElavon, a leading global payments provider and wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), announces its new software development kit, Commerce SDK which enables businesses to start accepting ApplePay™ and streamlines a path to EMV. Elavon was one of the first acquirers to offer Apple Pay to merchants for consumer use in the U.S. and continues to bring the easy, secure and private payment service to merchants. The Commerce SDKmore...
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4/2/15 11:56 am EDTWATFORD, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Watford's Central Primary School is receiving an "egg-ceptional" donation this year for its Easter Egg Hunt – as in more than 300 chocolate eggs – from global acquirer and local business Elavon. Central Primary School is a Hertfordshire Community School serving approximately 370 children in the community, beginning from Nursery to Year 6. The egg hunt will take place on the morning of Thursday, April 2, in the nursery, Year 1 andmore...
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3/31/15 11:52 am EDTBuilding on its new approach of delivering industry leading technology solutions to its franchisees through the use of third party strategic partners, Wyndham Hotel Group—the world’s largest hotel company and one of three hospitality business units of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN)—today announced plans to deploy a new, automated, Software-as-a-Service, revenue management system from Infor across more than 4,500 of its franchisedmore...
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3/10/15 11:44 am EDTElavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) and leading global acquirer, has joined OptBlue, the American Express small merchant acquiring program. The OptBlue program is designed to make it easier for eligible U.S. small merchants to benefit from all-in-one acceptance. With OptBlue, Elavon performs all set up, processing, settlement, funding, customer support and reporting for eligible American Express® Card acceptancemore...
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3/3/15 11:40 am ESTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), and Amadeus, a global leader in advanced technology solutions for the travel industry, announced during the annual Elavon Travel Symposium that they have signed an agreement to integrate Elavon’s payment processing solutions into the Amadeus Payments Platform (APP). As the top global acquirer for the airline industry, Elavon works with moremore...
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3/3/15 11:30 am ESTElavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), now offers EMV with its Simplify payment application. The application is pre-certified for EMV prior to the October 1, 2015 liability shift deadline, when non-EMV-enabled businesses and card issuers will assume responsibility for any fraud that occurs. EMV, or “Europay MasterCard Visa,” is a globally accepted card standard that uses an embeddedmore...
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2/2/15 11:22 am ESTAs part of its ongoing investment in innovation, Elavon, a leading global payments provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), proudly supports Georgia Tech's Steven A. Denning Technology & Management (T&M) Program as a Corporate Affiliate. The Denning T&M Program is housed in the Scheller College of Business. The Program creates alliances with Corporate Affiliates and offers a selected group ofmore...
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1/11/15 11:16 am ESTElavon, a leading global payment solutions provider to more than 1.3 million business customers and wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has joined the Verizon Partner Program (VPP), which tailors regional and national opportunities for systems integrators, value added resellers, agents and solutions providers to accelerate delivery and adoption of Verizon solutions for meeting small and medium business requirementsmore...
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12/16/14 11:10 am ESTElavon, a leading global payments provider, and Union Bank have agreed to extend their multi-year alliance, which will expand the geographic coverage and availability of payment consultants across Union Bank’s retail branch network, private bank and business banking relationships and provide enhanced products that help today’s tech-savvy small business customers. “Merchant Services is an important offering that helps our customersmore...
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12/4/14 10:58 am ESTElavon, a leading global payments provider, and Bank of the West have extended their 21-year referral agreement for merchant services through 2021. Referrals for new business will be marketed through Bank of the West’s 22-state banking network of more than 650 commercial office and retail branch locations. “We appreciate Elavon’s support in enabling our customers to accept payments in traditional and new, innovative ways,” said Alanmore...
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11/5/14 10:48 am ESTProfiles in Diversity Journal® announced winners of its 13th annual Women Worth Watching® Award this month, including Elavon’s Marianne Johnson, executive vice president of global product and innovation. In her nearly 4 years at Elavon, a leading global payments provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), Johnson has been responsible for driving innovation investments that position Elavon and the company’s partners and customers formore...
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11/5/14 10:41 am ESTWomen in Technology (WIT) recently announced the nine finalists for its 2014 Women of the Year in Technology Awards. Elizabeth Holmes, SVP of IT Transformation and Global Quality Assurance at Elavon was selected as one of the top three nominees in the Enterprise Business category. In just two short years at Elavon Elizabeth has firmly established the Quality Assurance discipline, doubling the size of the organization through an offshoremore...
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11/4/14 10:30 am ESTElavon, a leading global payment solution provider and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), is providing its restaurant and retail business clients with an easy to use and affordable tablet-based-point of sale platform that leverages smart data to effectively manage and grow their business. This unique solution pairs Elavon’s strength in payments and loyalty solutions, seamlessly delivered on a tablet-based platform powered by talech, a fast-more...
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11/3/14 10:24 am ESTElavon, a leading global payments provider and wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) announces enhanced products for EMV readiness, security and support for Apple Pay. “With so many changes converging in the consumer payments space, could there be any more exciting time in our industry?” asks Marianne Johnson, executive vice president of global product and innovation at Elavon. “We’re delighted to be center stage, helpingmore...
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6/25/14 10:18 am EDTMICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, and Elavon, a leading global payments provider, have integrated their respective gateway and security products to deliver encryption and tokenization for the hotel and food and beverage industries, facilitating a secure environment throughout the entire payment transaction cycle. With the integration work alreadymore...
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3/18/14 10:14 am EDTElavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and a leading global payment solutions provider, is bringing to market Fanfare, an easy-to-use loyalty program that delivers rewards to patrons of small to mid-sized businesses right at the point-of-sale. With Fanfare, businesses can build deeper relationships with their customers by providing meaningful rewards via integrated technology. With Fanfare it is easy for consumersmore...
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