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Apriva and CardSmith Bring Mobile Payment to Campus Cards

The leading provider of Cloud-Based campus card payment solutions, CardSmith, and Apriva, the leading provider of end-to-end wireless transactions and secure information solutions, announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver secure, mobile payment solutions integrated with CardSmith’s cloud-based campus card payments platform. Through this relationship, institutions will be able to cost-effectively deploy wireless vending and mobile payment acceptance around campus and eliminate the cost, security and maintenance requirements associated with traditional Ethernet and data jack infrastructure. The combined offering supports campus ID card and Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express credit card transactions.

The first wave of joint wireless payment solutions is expected to roll out in the second half of 2012.

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