SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Payment Data Systems (NASDAQ: PYDS), an integrated electronic payments solutions
provider, announced today the addition of two new strategic partners; Pivotal Partners and Pilgrim Consulting. These partnerships
represent exciting new distribution channels to further expand Payment Data Systems’ penetration of targeted verticals, especially
in healthcare and other strategic verticals.
Vaden Landers, EVP and Chief Revenue Officer at Payment Data Systems, said of the two new partnerships, “We are very pleased
that these professional service organizations - both leaders in their field - have chosen our ‘PayFac-in-a-Box’ platform as the
payments enablement solution that best meets the needs of their respective clients. The numerous software developer customers and
merchant communities served by these new partner organizations can now count on our simple, easy-to-use integration and onboarding
to quickly and effectively enjoy the benefits of a state-of-the-art payments technology.”
Pivotal Partners provides advisory and consulting services across the healthcare, product distribution and business services
industries. Founder Brent Hendrickson and his team have extensive experience in the healthcare sector. Commenting on the
announcement Hendrickson said, “Payment Data Systems’ payment facilitation technology affords unsurpassed benefits to our hospital
system, clinic, revenue cycle management and software developer clients and their merchant customers.”
Landers added, “The Pivotal team are highly-respected and sought-after leaders who are looked upon as trusted advisors in the
healthcare community. We are very pleased they recognize that our PayFac-in-a-Box platform is another tool they can use to help
healthcare organizations meet the mounting issues of patient financial responsibility. This is an ideal partnership.”
Pilgrim Consulting is a professional software development firm serving the developer community in a variety of consultative
manners. Landers remarked, “Because of its versatility, Pilgrim is able to come alongside a technology provider and either take on
an entire project or simply assist in some strategic capacity. They recognized that our expansive API library was an ideal solution
to the challenge of integrating payments functionality into their software implementations. For Payment Data Systems, the
partnership with Pilgrim opens the door to a variety of large, fast-growing new verticals where we do not specifically focus
today.”
Landers concluded, “Working with strategic partners like Pivotal and Pilgrim enables us to further expand our reach and
accelerate our penetration of key market verticals. These companies provide their Integrated Software Vendor (ISV) clients a way to
simply and easily monetize the stream of payments flowing through their systems. Most notably they believe our ability to offer a
single, click-of-a-button onboarding and activation technology will lead to widespread adoption of their payment solution.”
About Payment Data Systems, Inc.
Payment Data Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYDS), a leading integrated payment solutions provider, offers a wide range of payment
solutions to merchants, billers, banks, service bureaus, and card issuers. The Company operates credit, debit/prepaid, and ACH
payment processing platforms to deliver convenient, world-class payment solutions and services to their clients. The strength of
the Company lies in its ability to provide tailored solutions for card issuance, payment acceptance, and bill payments as well as
its unique technology in the prepaid sector. Payment Data Systems is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has offices in
Franklin, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville.
Websites: www.paymentdata.com, www.singularpayments.com, www.payfacinabox.com, www.akimbocard.com, and www.ficentive.com. Find us on Facebook® and Twitter.
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realization of the anticipated opportunities from the Singular acquisition, the management of the Company's growth, the loss of key
resellers, the relationships with the Automated Clearinghouse network, bank sponsors, third-party card processing providers and
merchants, the security of our software, hardware and information, the volatility of our stock price, the need to obtain additional
financing, risks associated with new tax legislation, and compliance with complex federal, state and local laws and regulations,
and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its
annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017. One or more of these factors have affected, and in the
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