Why Heartland Payments is 'Crawling' Toward Bitcoin Integration
When Heartland Payments e-commerce director Joe Wysocki looks to add a product or service to his company's portfolio, he looks for three factors - that it will help Heartland's merchants improve security, convert shoppers and obtain repeat business. Bitcoin, Wysocki says, aligns with these principles. In a new interview with CoinDesk, Wysocki discussed the strategy behind the fifth-largest US payments processor's recent referral deal with BitPay, and the forces that encouraged it to consider its first opportunity in the digital currency market. Overall, Wysocki described the deal as one....
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Heartland Payment Systems, the fifth largest payment processor in the US, has signed an agreement with BitPay that will find the company referring customers to its platform. Founded in 1997, Heartland offers credit, debit and prepaid card processing services, as well as check management and payments solutions. The publicly traded company estimates it has more than 250,000 customers nationwide. Statements by the companies indicate that Heartland will seek to identify businesses and organisations that may benefit from the bitcoin payment processor's services, then referring them to the....
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