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• Merchant processor iPayment Inc., along with its parent company iPayment Holdings Inc., announced a refinancing with holders of its senior secured notes that company officials say should result in a “substantial deleveraging” of the company and enable it to add services and products.
• Equinox Payments LLC said it supports Android Pay across all of its point-of-sale terminals.
• Terminal maker VeriFone Systems Inc. said it is expanding the availability of Point, its payment-as-a-service solution, to users of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform outside the U.S. Point features end-to-end encryption of card data.
• Ingenico Group announced it has seen a more than 200% increase in shipments over the past year in its iSelf Series collection of unattended payment products. The company credits the addition of new payments partners, including Bank of America, Bluefin, Shift4, Vantiv, and Vengo.
• Payments gateway Shift4 Corp. announced that value-added reseller Texo is offering Shift4 services to its merchants.
• Payment technology provider Handpoint announced its new “express integration” that enables independent software vendors and merchants using cloud-based systems to integrate with Handpoint’s mobile EMV and point-to-point encryption services.
• Square Inc. has formed an integration with Weebly, a provider of e-commerce tools, to allow Square sellers in Australia to sell online and in-person through a single dashboard.
• WEX, a vendor of payment services for small business and corporate clients, has agreed to offer business financing through OnDeck, an online lender.
