Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, announced an agreement with talech Inc, a cloud-based POS solution, to offer its U.S. merchants an industry-leading tablet solution that, when coupled with the Ingenico iCMP device, allows them to take advantage of both EMV and contactless technology services.

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The EMV solution is designed to offer Global Payments’ U.S. customers security and flexibility in a wide variety of applications with a single device. Customers using talech’s cloud-based POS can accept all payment types including swipe, chip-and-pin, chip-and-signature, as well as contactless transactions via Apple Pay®, Android Pay™ and Samsung Pay with an iPad®.

“Enabling this tablet solution with talech demonstrates Global Payments’ commitment to providing industry-leading EMV support for our customers,” said Frank T. Young, SVP, Global Product and Innovation at Global Payments. “This technology offers a mobile alternative, allowing our customers to take advantage of both EMV and contactless solutions.”

“We are excited about this partnership with Global Payments that offers a more robust EMV solution for businesses of any type while also helping merchants simplify operations and make better decisions using our intuitive and intelligent POS software,” said Irv Henderson, CEO and Co-Founder at talech.

This solution is available immediately to Global Payments’ U.S. customers. Click here to learn more about it.

About Global Payments

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services that delivers innovative solutions driven by customer needs globally. Our technologies, partnerships and employee expertise enable us to provide a broad range of products and services that allow our customers to accept all payment types across a variety of distribution channels in many markets around the world.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with approximately 4,500 employees worldwide, Global Payments is a Fortune 1000 Company with merchants and partners in 29 countries throughout North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and Brazil. For more information about Global Payments, our Service. Driven. Commerce brand and our technologies, please visit www.globalpaymentsinc.com.

About talech

talech Inc brings the power of data to small and medium-sized businesses in the form of intuitive and intelligent software. talech solutions allow business to simplify operations, get key insights and make better business decisions. www.talech.com