Video: NCR-JetPay Acquisition Panel at TRANSACT

In a marketplace increasingly defined by major mergers and acquisitions, the acquisition of JetPay by NCR was a notable one. The acquisition gave NCR payments acceptance applications with payments processing to its hardware repertoire. How did this come about and what is in store for the payments industry with this consolidation?

At this year’s TRANSACT, these questions were answered in an insightful presentation “M&A Spotlight: NCR/JetPay Acquisition,” with  speakers Brian Hurdis, Senior Vice President of GM Payment Services at NCR, Diane Faro, Vice President of GM Payment Services at JetPay, and Chris Lee, CEO of BillingTree as moderator.

The trio started off by discussing how the acquisition of JetPay by NCR came about.

“NCR still didn’t really be in the payments industry and what a great opportunity,” Faro says., “One company provided the hardware, the software, everything that we needed within the industry, but totally bringing the ante and solution within the payment side and JetPay was a perfect fit.”

The panel also talked about how this acquisition reflects a pattern of consolidation occurring in the industry. “The way that merchants are following where the customer wants to do their transactions is driving a lot of the innovation,” Hurdis says, noting that this is why we are seeing, and will continue to see, so many acquisitions happening of late.

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