Investor excitement was due to its better-than-expected quarterly results off of its merchant services segments.
Many other areas are possible, with the obvious ones such as digital wallets, exchanges and merchant services.
Most won't offer merchant services of any kind to e-tailers unless they also have a brick-and-mortar shop.
The diversification of the target market from only eBay to other merchant services over the past decade, has fueled this growth.
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More specifically, Corduro competes with companies like Square on the merchant services side, and Quicken on the high-end enterprise side, he said.
To create an entire value chain, American Express segmented its credit card and lending business into three businesses: U.S. card services, international card and global commercial services, and global network and merchant services.
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The fine print though usually consists of a long term contract and expensive early termination fees crafted to deter merchants from leaving those merchant services providers whoworked so aggressively to win the business with their often confusing sales tactics when explaining the fine print.
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Financial institutions: BBVA Bank, BMO, BNLPOSitivity, BNL Italy, BNP Paribas Fortis Belgium, Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, Banca Sella, Citi, Commonwealth Bank, Deutsche Bank Italy, EMS, EnterCard, EURO 6000, European Merchant Services, Fifth Third Bank, Handelsbanken, International Card Services Netherlands, Intesa Sanpaolo, Lake Trust Credit Union, ME Bank, NAB, SEB Kort, SIA, Swedbank, TMG Financial Services, UniCredit and Westpac.
Today she uses New York-based Merchant Processing Services, which charges her a base rate of 1.61% on each bill, plus 20 cents per card swipe.
Since March, i-design has signed a major contract with merchant processing services provider First Data for the supply of joono software, and has sold an additional 3, 000 software licenses to Barclays Bank and US-based Cardtronics Inc.
Participation is subject to the terms of the Groupon Payments Merchant User Agreement, which may modify or discontinue the guarantee and the underlying services at any time.
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In 1995 Sodexho acquired Gardner Merchant, a caterer in the U.K., and in 2001 bagged Marriott Management Services.
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