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TRANSACT Tech Atlanta Brings Together Software, Hardware, VC, Acquirer Leaders

ETA brought together hundreds of payments technology leaders on Tuesday at TRANSACT Tech Atlanta, a one-day event that explored the dynamic and rapidly advancing marketplace for merchant acquirers. The event emphasized building and capitalizing on partnerships with new entrants like ISVs and PayFacs to drive value in payments products, and provided networking opportunities for attendees to make those connections in real-time at the event.

“Our primary goal in putting together this event is to help you build critical connections. Those connections help us facilitate our goal of advancing the payments industry,” said ETA Chief Executive Officer Jason Oxman during his morning welcome to attendees.

Program highlights included a morning keynote address from Global Payments Inc. President and COO David Mangum, who shared insights from Global Payments’ experience in developing successful software and distribution products that have helped the company grow.

“Looking across the audience here, I see partners, potential partners, competitors and many others from across the payments ecosystem,” Mangum told a full hall of payments technology leaders during his opening keynote, “you all run great businesses. We are in a great industry. There is a lot of opportunity in this industry.” For Global Payments Inc., that means using software solutions to add value to the transaction, he said to close his keynote.

Program highlights on the dynamics of software partnerships, the PayFac and ISV marketplace, and the role of new and traditional players included discussions with executives from Payscape, Priority Payment Systems, Verifone, Elavon, RPY Innovations, Instamed, Vantiv, now Worldpay, Chase Merchants Services, Discover Global Network and TTV Capital. The agenda also featured a panel on fostering innovation and promoting diversity with principals from Atlanta area tech incubators Clark Atlanta University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development, ATDC and Comcast/NBC Universal’s The Farm.

The closing keynote, moderated by Oxman, featured a discussion with Sean Banks, Partner, TTV Capital, and Brian Mahoney, Chief Strategy Officer, Elavon about how Venture Capital and payments technology companies approach partnerships, investments and the current M+A landscape in payments technology.

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TRANSACT Tech Atlanta was generously sponsored by Global Payments, Verifone, Vantiv, now Worldpay, ControlScan, Discover Global Network, and King & Spalding.