Growing up in Columbus, Ga., I knew little about the payment processing industry, but I had an anecdotal sense for its power as a job generator long before I began […]
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Atlanta Payments Giants Cash In As World Moves From Paper to Plastic
When promoting the payments industry — the web of companies making things work behind the scenes when you swipe your credit card — Atlanta boosters often mention the fact that […]
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Mobile and Global: Atlanta’s Role in the Future of Secure, Connected Payments
First swipe. Then click. Now tap — the verbs describing how we pay for things are changing as commerce evolves. And to hear executives in Atlanta’s payment industry tell it, […]
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How Georgia Became a Payments Mecca
Deep beneath what’s now the American Cancer Society building in downtown Atlanta is a cluster of giant cables routing bits and bytes throughout the world. Coursing through the pipes, amid […]
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Payments Sector Driving Innovation in Atlanta: A Conversation With Leading Voices
As part of its upcoming special report on the payment-processing sector in Atlanta, Global Atlanta in November convened a group of experts from the industry to discuss where it’s going and […]
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Paying Atlanta Forward: Fintech Sector Helps Drive City’s Tech Ascendance
Every Friday, ParkMobile’s employees hold a planned happy hour at the sleek new bar within the mobile payments company’s redesigned Midtown headquarters. It’s designed to as a wrapup to the […]