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believe the driver of the ongoing expansion will come support for additional tournaments and leagues. This
from the consumer sector, which accounts for approxi- partnership extension further reinforces paysafecard's
mately 70 percent of economic activity." commitment to the global esports space, which attracted
around 280 million viewers in 2018, Paysafe stated.
PARTNERSHIPS
ACQUISITIONS

AmEx, Bill.com introduce Vendor Pay
Clearent acquires Coolfront Technologies
American Express Co. and Bill.com formed a strate-
gic partnership with a new offering: American Express FieldEdge and its parent, integrated payment-solutions
Vendor Pay by Bill.com. Vendor Pay couples automating company Clearent, acquired Coolfront Technologies.
the accounts payable process with the ability to seam- Coolfront – a provider of flat-rate pricing and mainte-
lessly pay vendors with an American Express Business or nance agreement management systems in the HVAC,
Corporate Card – without setting up a new card account. plumbing and electrical industries – will retain its exist-
The solution streamlines vendor payments, improves ing brand and operate as an independent subsidiary of
working capital and cash conversion cycles, and provides FieldEdge under the Clearent Software Holdings portfo-
better data for payment reconciliation, all while helping lio of companies.
businesses earn the rewards of the card, the partners
stated. DiscoverOrg gains ZoomInfo
Mastercard, Token.io partner for DiscoverOrg acquired Zoom Information Inc. The two
new open banking hub companies stated they came together to provide sales,
marketing and recruiting professionals access to the most
Mastercard selected turnkey open banking platform trusted and comprehensive business-to-business data
provider Token.io Ltd. to power the connectivity layer of available in the market.
its open banking hub. The hub will connect merchants,
retailers and other regulated third parties to financial "High-quality data is the fundamental go-to-market
institutions in Europe for data and requirement for growth," said DiscoverOrg co-founder
payment transactions, the partners
said. Mastercard's services will include
a pan-European directory, dedicated
dispute resolution mechanism and
connectivity hub.

ControlScan certified as
Verifone MNSP
ControlScan, a provider of managed
security and compliance solutions, was
certified by Verifone as a Managed
Network Service Provider (MNSP).
Under the new MNSP partner pro-
gram, convenience retailers utilizing
Verifone Commander and RubyCi
POS systems are approved to use
ControlScan for managed security and
other network-related services.

paysafecard, ESL
extend partnership

Online prepaid payments provider
paysafecard and global payments pro-
vider Paysafe Group expanded their
partnership with esports company
ESL. In addition to paysafecard's spon-
sorship of community competitions
through ESL Play, the collaboration
will increase the partnership's interna-
tional footprint through paysafecard's

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