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2018 – Year in review ........................................................................1 CanPay:
By Patti Murphy Compliant, transparent debit solution
As 2018 draws to a close, merchant services providers are assess- for cannabis merchants ................................................................27
ing what was and what may be the shape of things to come. And Education
several trends stand out as worthy of consideration.
Street Smarts SM
News When it's time to say goodbye ..................................................32
By Steve Norell, US Merchant Services Inc.
News Briefs:
Most MLSs do not stay with one ISO for their entire time in the
Electronic payments growth industry. What causes most of them to change their partners? This
continues at healthy clip ..............................................................12
article explores the reasons.
Fed's Faster Payments Council to Legal ease:
focus on real-world implementation .....................................12
Data breach allocation of liability ...........................................36
Experts back multifactor authentication By Adam Atlas, Attorney at Law
to stem stealth attacks ..................................................................12
As ISOs evolve to become increasingly active participants in the
Fed torpedoes move to fully electronic checks ................12 flow of transaction data, key considerations arise for them, from a
PCI SSC updates guidance for legal perspective, when a data breach occurs.
phone-based payments ...............................................................12 New Product

Walmart accepting cash for
in-store online ordering ...............................................................12 All-in-one POS, business management solution ..............41
Fraud, ID theft on sale this holiday season .........................12 Inspiration
Blending old and new....................................................................43
Industry Update ...............................................................................14
Views Departments
Letter From the Editors ....................................................................5
The very point os sale: Readers Speak:
Faster payments: What's slowing us down? .......................20 Brexit and U.S. companies doing business abroad ............8
By Dale S. Laszig, DSL Direct LLC Featured now on Merchant Sales Podcast ...........................14
In a few years, we've gone from talking about connected com- Spotlight Innovators ......................................................................22
merce to talking about faster commerce. For many of us in the Event Calendar ..................................................................................42
payments value chain, it's not happening fast enough. Resource Guide .................................................................................44
Jack Henry-ProfitStars 2018 conference: Advertiser Index ...............................................................................54
Learning from community banks ............................................38
By Brandes Elitch, CrossCheck Inc.
Local banks have local decision-making, they make faster deci-
sions than larger banks, and they can make loans for a few hun-
dred thousand dollars. ISOs can benefit when working with them.

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