synopsis: Sino Payments, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with 100% of the shareholders of TAP Investment Group to merge all TAP operations into Sino Payments. Sino Payments is a US public company providing credit, debit, stored value, loyalty, and other financial data processing services to customers primarily in Asia.

synopsis: Ristken Software Services, a leading provider of software based productivity and eBusiness tools for the retail automotive market, announced that Payment Systems Group, Inc. of St. Louis, MO has acquired their Equity Driver biweekly auto payment services division.

synopsis: Synovus, the financial services company announced that its affiliate, Columbus Bank and Trust Company (CB&T), has completed the previously announced sale of CB&T’s merchant services business to Merchant e-Solutions, Inc. (MeS) for $70.5 million in cash. Synovus also anticipates receipt of future revenue as a result of a referral agreement with MeS.

synopsis: First Data International, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment services, has completed the acquisition of POLCARD SA, Poland's leading independent merchant acquirer and card processor. By acquiring POLCARD, First Data is now strongly positioned in Poland, a market with an expanding payments infrastructure.

synopsis: ePayments Corp., a leading electronic payments processing and support services company, has announced the acquisition of ACH Technologies Inc. of Hastings, Minn.

synopsis: Heartland Payment Systems, a leading provider of credit/debit/prepaid card processing, payroll and payment services, has acquired a majority interest in Collective Point of Sale Solutions Ltd. CollectivePOS is a growing Canadian provider of payment processing services and secure point-of-sale solutions.

synopsis: ePayments Corp., a leading electronic payments processing and support services company, has announced the acquisition of Check Collection and Recovery Inc. of St. Simons Island, Ga.

synopsis: Fifth Third Processing Solutions, LLC announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire National Processing Company (NPC). The transaction advances Fifth Third Processing Solutions' strategy to grow through complementary acquisitions and creates one of the largest merchant acquiring businesses in the United States.

synopsis: Austin Ventures, one of the nation’s leading venture and growth capital firms, and Century Payments Inc, a payments services company funded by AV, announced the acquisition of National Merchant Solutions, an Independent Sales Organization operating in the South East U.S.

synopsis: VeriFone Systems, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Point, Northern Europe’s largest provider of payment and gateway services and solutions for retailers. Point, based in Stockholm, has operations in 11 European countries and serves a captive network encompassing almost 475,000 merchant contracts.

synopsis: NEOVIA Financial Plc, the leading alternative payments business, announced that the Company has completed the acquisition of Optimal Payments, a leading provider of straight through processing solutions to merchants in North America and Europe.

synopsis: Elavon, formerly NOVA Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, has acquired substantially all of the merchant processing portfolio of Capital City Bank, a subsidiary of Capital City Bank Group Inc., with 70 branches across Florida, Georgia and Alabama.

synopsis: Veracity Payment Solutions today announced that it has acquired the merchant portfolio of PinnaclePay Merchant Services. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

synopsis: Chockstone Inc., provider of the world's most innovative customer loyalty marketing programs and stored value solutions, today announced that it has acquired Peppercoin, a provider of card-based merchant loyalty programs and related consulting and analytical services.

synopsis: InComm and Coinstar, Inc. announced that InComm has purchased Coinstar's E-Payment services business, which includes operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The aggregate purchase price was $40 million, which is subject to a post-closing net working capital adjustment.

synopsis: Metatron, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Just Data Inc. Organized in 1999, Just Data Inc. provides flexible electronic payment solutions including credit cards, electronic checks and telephone orders, and works with any business model, including internet, broadband, wireless, call centers and retail establishments.

synopsis: Pipeline Data Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Paynet Systems, Inc., an e-commerce and retail merchant credit card processing provider. The purchase of Paynet Systems, Inc. along with the recent acquisition of Valadata, Inc. will provide an additional $390,000 in monthly cash flow to Pipeline.

synopsis: TransFirst®, a leading provider of transaction processing services and payment enabling technologies, has purchased RST Ventures, Inc. dba US Merchant Services (USMS), a provider of electronic payment processing services headquartered in Cypress, California.

synopsis: BluePay, a leader in credit card processing services, recently announced its acquisition of payment services provider Primax. Primax provides credit card and debit card services to over 100 community financial institutions, in addition to payment solutions for more than 5,000 businesses.

synopsis: TSYS announced that it has acquired TermNet Merchant Services, an Atlanta-based merchant acquirer. The company will be re-branded as TSYS and fully integrated into TSYS Merchant Solutions.

synopsis: Sino Payments, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with 100% of the shareholders of TAP Investment Group to merge all TAP operations into Sino Payments. Sino Payments is a US public company providing credit, debit, stored value, loyalty, and other financial data processing services to customers primarily in Asia.

synopsis: Sino Payments, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with 100% of the shareholders of TAP Investment Group to merge all TAP operations into Sino Payments. Sino Payments is a US public company providing credit, debit, stored value, loyalty, and other financial data processing services to customers primarily in Asia.

synopsis: Ingenico, the No. 1 player in the secure payments industry by market share has acquired German peer easycash GmbH. This transaction is a major step in Ingenico’s plan to position itself in the transaction services value chain in order to offer solutions around POS terminals and to leverage on the growth of payment transactions in the coming years.

synopsis: Torex Retail Holdings Limited, a leading provider of retail systems solutions, announced that General Atlantic LLC, a leading global growth equity firm has completed a transaction to acquire a 33% equity share in the entity.

synopsis: Cerberus European Investments, LLC announced the purchase of all of the businesses and trading subsidiaries of Torex Retail, through Torex Retail Holdings Limited an acquisition vehicle owned by Cerberus, following the process announced previously by Torex Retail PLC.

synopsis: easycash, the leading German point of sale Network Service Provider, announced that financial investor Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm, has reached agreement with First Data International to acquire 100% of easycash. First Data sold easycash in a competitive auction.

synopsis: OSL Holdings Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire 51% of DSMART Technologies, a data company committed to being a leading provider of data for the retail value chain that captures and aggregates transactional data from the point of sale.

synopsis: Raymark, a global leader in enterprise retail software solutions, announced its acquisition of Retaligent Solutions, Inc., a leading clienteling and customer centricity solutions provider in the retail industry. Retaligent’s products include sophisticated and integrated retail clienteling, CRM, and loyalty solutions.

synopsis: Accenture has completed its acquisition of assets from CadenceQuest, Inc. The CadenceQuest Customer Insight software, which Accenture acquired, is a flexible, scalable, self-service analytical platform that allows retail decision makers to easily define their customer segments and gain deep insights about customers.

synopsis: Sanderson announced the acquisition of Retail Business Solutions Group Limited ("RBS"). RBS markets and supports solutions which provide front and back office electronic point-of-sale systems including the highly successful Retail-J software together with a full range of IT services.

synopsis: MICROS Systems, Inc., a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, has announced an agreement to acquire Torex Retail Holdings, Ltd., a provider of information technology systems for the retail, fuel and convenience stores and pub markets in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe.

synopsis: Aldata Solution Oyj announces that it has entered into an agreement to sell its local Finnish subsidiary, Aldata Solution Finland Oy to Solteq Oyj. The terms of the agreement include the rights to certain locally produced Aldata products for mid-size retailers and restaurants including the 1-2-1 product line.

synopsis: Torex, the leading global provider of innovative technology to the retail, hospitality and convenience and fuel markets, announces that it has acquired the Retail Division (RBS) of Sanderson Group plc. RBS is a leading UK supplier of retail IT solutions and services.

synopsis: Automatic Data Processing, Inc., has acquired Kerridge Computer Co. Ltd. for approximately $300 million, in cash, Arthur F. Weinbach, chairman and chief executive officer of ADP announced today.

synopsis: Versata Enterprises, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software solutions, has announced the acquisition of Boston-based geoVue, Inc., the leading provider of location intelligence, modeling and analysis solutions to retailers, restaurants, and service companies for market ranking, optimization, site selection and sales forecasting.

synopsis: The Reynolds and Reynolds Company announced that its merger with Universal Computer Systems Inc. has closed. Reynolds shares will be de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange effective with the opening of business on October 27, 2006.

synopsis: Torex Retail Plc (Torex Retail), the leading supplier of retail management systems to major European retailers, is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Retail Store Systems Inc. (RSS).

synopsis: Atlanta and UK headquartered WorkPlace Systems, a leading worldwide supplier of Workforce Management (WFM) software and services, has acquired Labor Solutions International (LSI), the St. Louis-based WFM consulting firm to expand WorkPlace's overall service offering and increase its presence in the US retail market.

synopsis: ADAM Systems announced it has acquired Shamrock Systems, a division of United Systems Technologies, Inc. Shamrock Systems supplies Dealer Management Systems software to powersports retailers. Terms of the transaction remain confidential.

synopsis: Friedman Corporation, a developer of enterprise computing solutions for the discrete To-Order Manufacturer, announced that it has acquired Markinson Technologies Pty Ltd. Markinson offers full-featured, configurable applications for multi-facility wholesalers and retailers.

synopsis: Funds advised by Apax Partners, one of the world's leading private equity firms, with a strong heritage of technology investment, announced that they have completed the acquisition of Activant Solutions Inc., a leading technology provider of ERP and point-of-sale software serving mid-market retailers and distributors.

synopsis: DemandTec, Inc., the collaborative optimization network for retailers and consumer products companies, has announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Applied Intelligence Solutions, LLC (AIS), a developer of intelligent software solutions for the retail enterprise with a specific focus on softline retailers.