FIRST DATA SIGNS MERCHANT PROCESSING AGREEMENT WITH PAYMENT RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL. Mar 21, 2001 (EFT Report/Phillips Publishing via COMTEX) -- First Data Merchant Services (FDMS), a subsidiary of electronic commerce and payments provider Atlanta-based First Data Corp., Mar. 8 announced it has signed a long-term merchant processing agreement with Newport Beach, Calif.- based Payment Resources International, an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) and one of the industry's largest and fastest growing international ISO organizations. The announcement was made at the Electronic Transaction Association (ETA) 2001 Annual Meeting & Exposition. The merchant processing agreement provides transaction and authorization processing, settlement and other services to Payment Resources International merchant customers. Using First Data Merchant Services' Omaha processing platform, which is used by many of the industries' largest Independent Sales Organizations, Payment Resources International will be capable of customizing solutions for their merchants. (First Data Merchant Services, Neil Birenbaum, 954/845-4615; Middleberg Euro for First Data Merchant Services, Kerri Corbett, 212/699-2746.) EFT Report, Vol. 24, No. 6 Copyright Phillips Publishing, Inc. -0- *** end of story *** |