PULSE to Deploy Paydiant’s Mobile Payment Solution

Open Platform Allows More Financial Institutions and Retailers to Deploy Branded Mobile Wallets, Accelerate Mobile Adoption

HOUSTON & WELLESLEY, Mass.--()--PULSE, one of the nation’s leading debit/ATM networks, and Paydiant, a provider of a cloud-based mobile wallet and offer redemption platform, are working together to provide an easy-to-use mobile commerce solution for PULSE participants. The Paydiant solution will enable PULSE financial institution and merchant partners to quickly deploy contactless payment and cash access functionality to better serve their mobile-minded customers.

Paydiant’s mobile wallet platform is software-based and works with both new and existing smartphones – including iPhone® and Android™ devices already in the hands of millions of consumers. It also works with existing point-of-sale (POS) terminals used by participating merchants today without requiring new hardware.

The Paydiant solution delivers two key capabilities that are expected to help accelerate the use and adoption of mobile wallets, improve payment efficiencies and enhance the transaction experience for consumers in any retail POS or ATM environment where Paydiant enabled wallets are accepted:

  • A software-only merchant acceptance interface that can be quickly deployed on any POS or payment terminal. Once enabled, this open acceptance method can support any compatible Paydiant-powered mobile wallet – whether deployed by a financial institution, retailer or third-party service provider.
  • And, as now offered to PULSE participants, a white label mobile wallet application that is branded and configured by the wallet issuer, rather than a third party. Financial institutions and merchants will be able to determine the variety of payment instruments supported in their wallet, enable customers to redeem offers at a retail POS and use their mobile wallet to make payments at a retailer, or withdraw cash from a participating ATM.

“Paydiant’s platform enables us to offer both our financial institution participants and merchant partners their own branded mobile wallet,” said Judith McGuire, PULSE executive vice president of Product Management. “Paydiant’s unique approach is an important part of PULSE’s overall mobile services strategy.”

The Paydiant mobile wallet application is enabled through a highly scalable, secure cloud-based system that does not store any sensitive account information on the mobile device or pass account data through the retail environment. Every transaction uses two-factor authentication and tokenization, making it a very secure mobile payment method.

“As a leading provider of authenticated debit transaction services, PULSE is positioned to connect all the key constituents in mobile payments,” said Kevin Laracey, co-founder of Paydiant. “They have an outstanding reputation as a trusted and reliable partner to both financial institutions and retailers for delivering secure payment services. This, in combination with PULSE’s open approach to mobile payments, will certainly help advance mobile wallet adoption.”

About PULSE

PULSE, a Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) company, is a leading debit/ATM network, serving approximately 6,100 financial institutions across the United States. This includes more than 4,100 issuers with which PULSE has direct relationships and 2,000 additional issuers through agreements PULSE has with other debit networks. PULSE links cardholders with ATMs and POS terminals at retail locations nationwide. Through its global ATM network, PULSE provides worldwide cash access for Diners Club and Discover cardholders through 1.3 million ATM locations. The company also is a source of electronic payments research and is committed to providing its participants with education on emerging products, services and trends in the payments industry. For more information, visit www.pulsenetwork.com.

About Paydiant

Paydiant is the provider of a cloud-based, white label mobile payment, cardless ATM access and offer redemption platform that enables merchants, banks, and payment processors to deploy and manage their own mobile payment and ATM access solutions under their own brand and on their own terms. Based on an enterprise-class, cloud-based transaction processing platform, the Paydiant solution enables the key stakeholders in the payments value chain – retailers, banks and payment processors – to control the next generation of payment solutions. Visit www.paydiant.com for more information about the Paydiant solution and follow us on Twitter @Paydiant.

Contacts

PULSE
Patty Sendelbach, (832) 214-0395
APR
patty.sendelbach@pulsenetwork.com
or
Walsh Group for Paydiant
Tim Walsh, (617) 512-1641
timw@walshgroupmarketing.com

Release Summary

PULSE and Paydiant are working together to provide an easy-to-use mobile commerce solution to enable PULSE participants to quickly deploy contactless payment and cash access functionality.

Contacts

PULSE
Patty Sendelbach, (832) 214-0395
APR
patty.sendelbach@pulsenetwork.com
or
Walsh Group for Paydiant
Tim Walsh, (617) 512-1641
timw@walshgroupmarketing.com