Dorado Trend Watch Q2 2011

TrendWatch 2.0
Q2 2011
Payments System Industry
Synopsis

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Editorial Comment
Random Thoughts
Sis, boom, bah! Or not. Ever wonder why they don’t sell supremacy when it comes to knowing how we behave when
tickets to junior varsity football games? It’s because no one’s traveling or shopping, how we pay for things, and where we’ve been
willing to pay to watch ‘em. Were we the only ones watching the before strolling into our favorite merchant’s store. Each of these
live telecast the Fed’s final ruling on Durbin on June 29 who firms are serious players in their own right and ought to be taken
thought about heading back to ticket booth for a refund? seriously. And, unlike the dot.com boom/bust or similar payments
industry mosh pits, it’s not likely that competitor consolidation will be
Q: “So, what are the consumer impacts from these rules?”
the ultimate end-game. Sure, a goodly number of the garage band
A: “Ah, we don’t know.” wallet players will devolve, but it looks to us that these six titans
have the horse power to stay in the game and make the mobile
Q: “How sure are you that the smaller issuer exemption will be
wallet “thing” great spectator sport for a long time.
maintained?”
Oh, wait, someone’s missing. This wouldn’t be an authentic issue
A: “Sort of.”
of TrendWatch 2.0 without at least one reference to our extremely
Q: “Is the 1¢ fraud prevention tax temporary or permanent?” mobile friend, Facebook. In addition to the “sizzling six” mobile
wallet behemoths we ought to include FB since it’s now possible to
A: “Yes.”
use that social network’s Credits payment form to purchase real
Frankly, we’ve become rather bored with the notion of waging a world goods. “Facebook Deals” imbedded in FB user news feeds
battle solely on price when there are so many other ways to now encourage us to take advantage of real time, once in a lifetime,
compete but that’s the way Congress wanted it so let’s play the offers for goods and services. In fact, what you’re getting is a
hand. certificate good for the merchandise but why split hairs? Durbin
might be interested in FB Deals interchange pricing. Merchants or
Still, maybe it’s time for a new quarterback.
digital goods developers pay a mere 30 percent. Seems fair to us.
Okay, enough kvetching. Man, wasn’t this one hell of a quarter?
ACH deal undone. BofA and Wells announce the demise of
Take my wallet, please. So, what do Google, Visa, American Pariter, their ACH JV formed in 2008. This, just two weeks after
Express, PayPal, Apple and ISIS (the company, not the announcing the formation of clearXchange with partner JPMorgan
goddess) all have in common? They want us to use their brand- Chase for the purpose of slinging electronic online payments to each
spanking new mobile wallet! Looks like another Oklahoma land others customers from their DDAs. The former Pariter partners both
rush much like the ones we’ve seen involving P2P, EBPP, and cited their subsequent acquisitions (Merrill Lynch and Wachovia) as
PCI compliance tools. The stakes are a bit higher here, being responsible for upsetting the apple cart. Hope the
however, with traditional payments players, data aggregators clearXchange CEO got a long term deal. This won’t last either.
and miners, and the telecommunications networks vying for
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Table of Contents

2011 Predictions 4
TrendWatch Scorecard/Summary 5
2011 Payments Industry Yields 6
Interesting Quarterly News That Got No Respect 7
New Names to Watch 10
Q2 M&A/Investor Activity 11
Useful Links for More Information 17
Thrill Seekers Unite 18

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2011 Predictions

• Despite good efforts to the contrary and Visa’s plan to support dual interchange schedules, exempt debit card
issuers will suffer major product profitability declines as a consequence of Durbin.
Mar. Won’t know until the end the year. Sit tight.
Jun. Fed’s final rules changed things somewhat by raising the floor and putting the industry on notice that big brother will be watching.
• A major retailer will take first-mover action to propel mobile payments out of its holding pattern in cottage industry
land – doesn’t include early players McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca Cola, or Jack in the Box.
Mar. Major retailers at the Alternative Payments Systems Innovation conference stated that they wanted lower costs, shorter lines,
strong security, dial tone reliability, easy implementation, and low maintenance in mobile payments. A tall order; might not happen this
year.
Jun. Now that the Fed has reneged on its first Durbin offer, it’s likely that retailers will move on with mobile.
• Isis, the mobile payments consortium, will launch to a lukewarm response.
Mar. Didn’t see any skyrockets when Isis announced its 2012 (really?) transportation pilot in Salt Lake City.
Jun. Yet another change of direction announced – entering Austin market for pilots. We see the term “flip-flop” being used a lot.
• Major retailer profits will grow in the second half of 2011 but we will not be able to cite Durbin as the reason. (And,
if the issue is raised, the MPC will brush it off.)
Mar. Waiting to see what happens in Q3 and Q4.
Jun. Fed Chairman poured cold water on this prediction.
• Having lost the pricing advantage between their products and POS debit, two providers of alternative payments
schemes will fold or sell out cheap.
Mar. Again tied to the Fed’s final rules – which won’t be ready by April 21 as required. Nice.
Jun. Three on a match! FaceCash and Bling Nation shut down to “re-think” their business models. Tempo is both in a ditch and
liquidating.
• Starbucks will selectively open use of its proprietary prepaid card to retail partners. Target, with its 1,000 in-store
coffee facilities, might be first.
Mar. Nothing yet but it’s going to happen!
Jun. Still waiting; come on guys, it’s the next logical step.

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TrendWatch Scorecard/Summary – Q2 2011
Industry Players To Watch
PayPal: By acquiring Zong, it further widens its funding options to include
carrier-direct billing. Could PP be planning to chase Google now?
American Express: Changes to its 150 year old “commoners need not
apply” approach may be coming. A low/no fee prepaid card and
reasonably open wallet (Serve) are decidedly mass market looking.
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Med 1. New Payment Forms along with its grocery store attended/unattended systems and kiosks.
Prepaid Card Industry: Fed final rules have triggered a reformation
Med 2. ATM Restructuring within the industry. Lots of product attribute changes coming.
MasterCard: Quiet during the Durbin commentaries and no counter-punch
Low 3. POS Volume Trend announcement about a mobile wallet. What’s up with that?
CFPB: Likely to launch without a leader, “idle minds/devil’s workshop”
High 4. Legal/Regulatory Issues sort of thing.
Mixed 5. Prepaid Card Growth Market & Industry Situation
1 – Mobile wallets, mobile wallets, mobile wallets.
Med 6. Earnings Announcements 2 – Cardtronics has become acquisitive again.
3 – Credit growth continues to dwindle while debit (most forms except
High 7. Industry Investments decoupled) continues apace.
4 – Merchants win, banks lose, prepaid jolted. Or is it merchants jolted,
banks win, and prepaid loses? You decide.
5 – Prepaid take-up is still good but Fed rules may create a speed bump.
6 – Clever bankers are letting out their 2009 credit card reserves to keep
earnings in line with quarterly guidance.
7 – Goodly amount of money coming into the VC/PE system and being
invested in payments. Ask Jack Dorsey.
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2011 Payments Industry YTD Yields
Quite a contrast, right? Visa and MasterCard get a huge bump from the Fed’s June 29th
announcement of its Durbin final rules while Green Dot and NetSpend continue to get no love.
Meanwhile, the Dow and S&P continue to post respectable YTD yields – 9 and 6.49 percent,
respectively – while others of our equity basket collection deal with episodic movements in the
market’s love/hate relationship with electronic payments and telecommunications. Beats a roulette
wheel wager we think. Sorta.

Industry Player 12/31/2010 6/30/2011 Price  Cap Value  YTD 2011 Yield

Alliance Data Systems $ 71.03 $ 94.07 $ 23.04 $ 1,370.9 32.4%
Cardtronics $ 17.70 $ 23.45 $ 5.75 $ 234.0 32.5%
Discover Financial Services $ 16.68 $ 26.75 $ 10.07 $ 4,842.7 60.4%
Euronet Worldwide $ 17.44 $ 15.41 $ (2.03) $ (102.3) -11.6%
Fidelity National Information Services $ 27.39 $ 32.69 $ 5.30 $ 1,011.2 19.4%
First Data (Future Use)
Fiserv Inc. $ 58.56 $ 62.63 $ 4.07 $ 634.5 7.0%
Global Cash Access Holdings $ 3.19 $ 3.18 $ (0.01) $ (0.8) -0.3%
Green Dot $ 56.74 $ 33.98 $ (22.76) $ (927.5) -40.1%
Heartland Payment Systems $ 15.42 $ 20.58 $ 5.16 $ 193.0 33.5%
Jack Henry & Associates $ 29.15 $ 30.01 $ 0.86 $ 72.2 3.0%
MasterCard Worldwide $ 224.11 $ 301.34 $ 77.23 $ 9,993.6 34.5%
NetSpend $ 12.82 $ 10.00 $ (2.82) $ (247.5) -22.0%
Online Resources $ 4.65 $ 3.26 $ (1.39) $ (41.3) -29.9%
TNS $ 20.80 $ 16.60 $ (4.20) $ (105.4) -20.2%
Total System Services $ 15.38 $ 18.58 $ 3.20 $ 631.7 20.8%
Visa $ 70.38 $ 84.26 $ 13.88 $ 11,741.1 19.7%

Sources: Company releases, Morningstar.com, Bloomberg.com
2011 YTD yield excludes dividends; based on 6/30/11 and 12/31/10 closing prices

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Interesting News This Quarter
Subject Source/Date Substance
Mobile Payments Industry Various • It’s getting tougher to keep track of the mobile payments line-up without a scorecard. FaceCash
falls victim to California’s new money-transmission law and Bling Nation decides to sit things
out for a while as it re-tools its business model. Meanwhile, two new players step up to fill the
void. Start up Naratte launches Zoosh, a mobile payments service that uses ultrasonic technology
to transfer payments data between user smartphones and merchant terminals while NuWallet
comes to market with a “simple-as-pie” approach to mobile payments for online purchases.
American Express Paybeforenews • Is it possible that American Express is planning on changing its business model? Last March the
June company announced its Serve payments platform/wallet and talked about plans to attract members
and non members interested in playing in the mobile payments space. Funding for Serve need not
come through an AMEX card. This quarter AMEX launched its “American Express Prepaid
Card” – catchy name, no? – and has dropped activation and maintenance fees while adding in
Purchase Protection, Roadside Assistance, its Selects purchasing plan, and access to its Global
assist hotline. Pretty gutsy stuff from a company that once touted its exclusivity and snob appeal.
Corduro TechCrunch • From the folks that brought us the Google Wallet, Google is the power behind Corduro, a new
May merchant services processor with a fee schedule that under cuts Jack Dorsey’s Square offering by
up to 30 percent. Moreover, Corduro works the same way Square does in terms of “merchants”
being able use its app to not only accept but make payments via Android and iPhone apps. Nice
to see a bit of competition working to help out small businesses with their acceptance costs.
Target American Banker • Not planning to leave any stone unturned, Target began to quietly market a prepaid card in 100
May of its stores last February. This one is co-branded with American Express of all people (note the
earlier reference to a new business model for AMEX) and extends Target’s existing payment
options which include the retailer’s private label credit and debit cards. Given the new pricing
model at AMEX, this product takes a pretty serious swing at Wal-Mart’s Money Card.
Silicon Valley Bank Press Release • Tech-focused business FI, Silicon Valley Bank (where Pete Hart hangs his hat), has launched the
June first chip-enabled credit card available to businesses in the United States. Branded with
MasterCard’s World Elite for Business moniker, SVB believes that the added security and
compliance with global EMV specifications will provide added value to its globe-trotting business
leaders and their management teams. The new product will include chips and magnetic stripes to
make sure all the bases are covered.
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Interesting News This Quarter – Continued
Card.io American Banker • Pretty soon using a smartphone camera and a software application to turn the instrument into a remote
June capture system for checks will seem pretty tame. Or that’s the hope of Card.io, a San Francisco start-
up that is offering software to eliminate the need for card-swiping hardware. The company is offering
its software to mobile operators to integrate with their payment applications and will charge 15 cents
per scan. Perhaps this card image-to-settlement option will serve as a bridge solution until NFC and
2D/3D enabled phones reach critical mass?
clearXchange PaymentsSource • BofA, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase evidently want to challenge PayPal’s dominant lead in P2P
May functionality. This triumvirate has announced plans for a joint venture which will initially be limited to
customers of its owners but will ultimately be offered to other banks. In a classic “whistling past the
graveyard” announcement one competitor – CashEdge – suggested that the JV would be good for it.
CashEdge subsequently sold out to Fiserv. Not much in the way of details yet but the ACH will be used
to move the money between people via email addresses or mobile telephone numbers.
Wescom Central CU Credit Union Journal • Not to be outdone by the big banks in clearXchange, Wescom Resources, a unit of Wescom Central
May CU has cut a deal with PayPal to offer P2P services to credit unions. PayPal’s Send Money application
has been integrated into Wescom’s MemberEdge Mobile Banking solution which is made available to
credit unions nationwide. International in scope because of the PayPal connection, all of Wescom’s
participating credit unions are free to use the service. Again, details are sketchy at this point.
Google Forrester • Google takes the covers off one of the worst kept secrets in recent payments history and announces the
May Google Wallet with partners Sprint, Citibank, MasterCard and First Data. This, mere months after
pirating two PayPal payments professionals away from the P2P payments leader. Unlike several other
wallet offerings, Google does not intend to monetize the payments component of its wallet and more
likely will concentrate on the value proposition associated with aggregating each wallet’s behavioral
data. CVS, Sports Authority and Macy’s are three notable merchants accepting the wallet initially. So
which competitor should be the most worried about Google’s offering – Visa, AMEX, or ISIS? Yes.
Google TechCrunch • Google immediately (like the next day) moves to fill a significant hole in its Google Wallet offering by
May making stickers available for users of smartphones that do not yet support NFC (i.e., the vast majority
of them). Stickers could be linked to a single debit/credit card and would provide less robust offerings
than through full NFC. Google is desperately trying to get ahead of competing wallets – Visa, Serve,
ISIS, et al in the rush to reach critical mass.

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Interesting News This Quarter – Continued

Square American Banker • Well-funded Square takes its device/app centric approach to merchant services one step farther by
May launching Card Case, an imbedded application in the Square app. Card Case stores users’ payment details
for future access from a mobile device after consumers have swiped their card once. Of course, consumers
have to opt in but are prompted to do so via text message. A photo is uploaded to the on-phone application
or wallet during the enrollment process. The photo is displayed on merchant terminals through Square’s
Register app for verification purposes. Sort of like FaceCash, except that Square is still in business.
Visa/ANZ ZDNET • Visa and ANZ Bank jointly announce that their NFC pilot launched in March 2011 was a dude. Well, sort
June of. The real stinkaroo here was the MicroSD technology used to deliver NFC functionality to users’
smartphones. In classic understated prose, the pair said that the “MicroSD card system used in the trials
did not meet all our expectations” and that they “will continue to look for ways to support contactless
payments in the market.” DeviceFidelity, a company closely linked to Visa, is the technology developer.
Verizon Finextra • Verizon appears to have adopted the “cover all bases” approach to mobile wallets. The telecom giant is an
June ISIS member, has put together a relationship with start-up BilltoMobile for carrier-direct billing and
recently joined American Express in a consortium that has invested $19 million in Payfone. The last act
brings to Verizon the ability to offer a service for its subscribers that enables online payments and a broad
array of payment options.

PayDivvy American Banker • Here’s an interesting solution for social or service minded groups seeking a way to simplify the handling of
May shared expenses. PayDivvy has been operating in invited-beta mode since 2009 and recently went to open
status. Group participants are prompted when their shares of common expenses are due and the system
handles delivery of remittances to landlords, utilities, cable companies and cleaning services. 5,000 billers
have been pre-loaded into the application and the system adapts to manually-entered billing sites. This
single-site approach may put some the group members in conflict with past practices (e.g., bill payment via
bank websites) but may gain transaction in one-off social groups like HOAs, college fraternities, and
buying clubs.

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New Names to Watch

FinovateSpring 2011 was held in San Francisco in early May. Sixty-four companies presented seven minute demos
(no PowerPoint slideshows) of their emerging financial services products. Here, courtesy of our friends at Payments
Views (Glenbrook Partners consultancy) are snippets on those companies we consider to be up-and-comers.

Firm/Product Highlights

• Gifting network of merchants and FIs.
• FI elects to provide customer cardholders with merchant incentives.
FreeMonee
• Customer purchases highlighted merchandise offers with their registered card and receives partial or full
rebate from the FI.

• Mobile app that encourages users to save money or reduce debt.
GoalMine • User sets “pledges” for meeting their goals; e.g., spend less at Target.
• Geo location capability alerts the user when s/he may be nearing a destination included in a pledge.

• Focused on community banks and credit unions.
Q2ebanking • Super secure online, mobile and phone banking.
• FIS, Andera, Yodlee, Centrix, and iPay in the background.

• P2P payments app using Facebook friends for making payments.
Liqpay
• Three year old company making a change of direction.

• Emphasis is payments security.
OpenCuro • One time code generated to represent the user and payment.
• Can be integrated with existing online banking portals.
• Merchant funded offers connected to bank cards using geo location services
BankOns • Designed to add oomph to FI cards sitting in digital/mobile wallets.
• Geo located offers are linked to user payment/purchase history.
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M&A/Alliance Activity

Buyer/Investor Target Payments Emphasis Possible Strategy
Motorola Solutions Scanbuy Mobile barcode solutions Scanbuy, creator of the ScanLife mobile barcode
Venture Capital, Hudson scanning app, raises $5 million from new and
Ventures, others returning capital sources. Recent partnerships
with Home Depot, Miller/Coors and
Bloomingdales ought to leverage the 35 million
copies of ScanLife sitting on mobile phones in the
U.S.

Visa Square Payment acceptance Visa plops down an unclosed amount of
investment money in Square, seriously increasing
its previously-raised $40 million in capital.
Another roulette table investment for Visa, a
serious endorsement for Square. Square
subsequently raised another $100 million, placing
the company’s value at $2 billion and making
Visa’s investment seem pretty shrewd.
PayPal Fig Card Mobile payments Fig Card payments are enabled through a
smartphone app and a USB device attached to
merchant cash registers or POS terminals. Feels
like yet another move by PayPal in the mobile
payments space. Just a week earlier PayPal
announced the acquisition of WHERE, a location
media company and local discovery mobile app
into which it will integrate its host of payment
options.

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M&A/Alliance Activity - Continued
Total Systems TermNet Merchant Merchant services processor TSYS acquires a merchant services processor to expand
Services its market share reaped in its First National Bank of
Omaha transaction last year. TermNet is ranked as 52nd
in size with 327,000 merchant relationships. Terms were
not disclosed.
WorldPay Envoy (UK) eCommerce payments WorldPay, jointly owned by Bain and Advent
International, expands in cyberspace payments
enablement by buying Envoy, an international
eCommerce solutions provider that offers 40 alternative
payments options for online purchasing.
New Enterprise Tabbedout Mobile payments NEA provides $5.75 million in Series A funding for
Associates Tabbedout, a start-up mobile payments company that
specializes in restaurants and bars. Patrons can open a
bar or meal tab via an iPhone or Android app, review
their purchases online and pay the tab at anytime. Total
funding so far for Tabbedout is $6.5 million, a goodly
sum for a niche market player. Hope there’s another
round. Cheers!
Morgenthaler Pageonce Mobile wallet/account aggregation Pageonce raises its capitalization to $25 million through a
Ventures, Pitango $15 million tranche. Its Money & Bills application
Ventures, others organizes multiple bank and credit card accounts, tracks
transactions, manages bills as they become due and sends
mobile alerts. Pageonce claims 4.5 million users, $556
billion in tracked payment transactions and $55 billion in
assets held by its users. Virtually all types of
smartphones are supported and there’s a web application.
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DCM & SK Telecom Billing Revolution Mobile billing and payments Billing Revolution uses a single click approach to
Ventures eCommerce and physical world purchases using
iPhone or Android apps. Payment type information
is entered at the time of purchase and an SMS
receipt is sent to the phone. Subsequent to this $6.6
million round, Citibank Ventures made an
undisclosed amount of “strategic” investment in the
company.
eBay Zong Mobile payments eBay/PayPal pays $240 million for Zong, a carrier-
direct billing payments system based in Menlo
Park, CA. Zong uses a network of 250 mobile
network operators to reach 9 million merchants
worldwide. Integrating Zong with PayPal provides
yet another payment option for the company’s
digital/mobile wallet approach to payments. Yet,
Zong’s pricing model – it collects a 25-45 percent
fee from digital goods retailers – will likely change
as mobile network operators get a sense of the
disintermediation risk PayPal represents. What we
may have here is a countermove to Visa’s
acquisition of PlaySpan.
Fiserv CashEdge P2P payments Fiserv pays a staggering $465 million for
CashEdge, the developer of POPmoney, a serious
competitor to Fiserv’s ZashPay P2P payment
system. The acquisition brings with it 500
CashEdge clients including Citibank.

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Wellington Partner, others eWise Online payments eWise, the payments engine behind Nacha’s Secure Vault
Payments scheme, raises $14 million from new player
Wellington and returning investors. A portion of the
monies raised are earmarked for mobile payments.
Visa Fundamo Mobile financial services South Africa based Fundamo is Visa’s latest target of
opportunity. The card brand paid $110 million to gain an
international leg up on financial services enablement for
the unbanked and underserved segments. The acquisition
brings 50 installed sites in 40 countries with the bulk of
them being based in Africa and the Middle East.
AccountNow Ready Financial Prepaid card program manager Two GPR companies with a shared objective of serving
Group the unbanked market are merging. Industry pundits point
to the need for competitors to Green Dot and NetSpend to
catch up quickly or be lost in the dust of these two
segment leaders.
Old Willow Partners, AisleBuyer Mobile payments AisleBuyer raises another $7.5 million, raising its
others capitalization to $11.5 million. The AisleBuyer app is
pretty clever; it allows consumers to a) scan barcodes to
obtain product reviews, b) order directly from a store’s
website if the desired product is not in stock, and c) make
a purchase in the aisle rather than at a checkout counter.
Payment card data entry is completed through use of the
phone’s camera instead of the keyboard.
Intuit Citibank Mobile banking Intuit pays an unspecified price for the Citi/SK joint
SK Telecom venture for mobile banking. Initially funded at $16
million in 2008, not much has happened since.

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Capital One ING Direct Online bank $9 billion for an $82 billion (deposits) bank? Seems a tad
on the high side but relatively cheap when you consider
Capital One gains 7.6 million new customers. The move
takes Cap One to being ranked fifth in the U.S. behind the
really big banks and should cause numerous online players
to shudder when considering the collective marketing
muscle this acquisition creates. Wall Street seems to like the
deal; COF is up 9.6 percent since the June 16
announcement.
Cardtronics EDC ATM ATM deployment and Cardtronics pays $145 million (plus or minus adjustments)
Subsidiary, service for access to 3,700 ATMs and numerous ATM placement
LLC/Efmark agreements with high-traffic retailers. Also included in the
Deployment I deal are ATM branding contracts with some of the largest
US FIs. Upon closing, CATM will have a combined owned
and branded ATM fleet of over 41,000 units. The markets
likes this transaction too – CATM is up 10 percent since the
late June announcement.
EDBI (Singapore), Sing ViVOtech POS/Mobile terminal Ten-year old ViVOtech raises another $24 million in equity
Tel Innov8, Motorola technology funds to finance growth and broaden its global footprint.
Solutions Venture Capital One returning investor is Citibank who is betting on
ViVOtech being one of the mobile payments winners.

Acadia Woods, others MOBIbucks Mobile marketing and MOBIbucks lands $5.0 million in Series A funding from a
payments consortium of players to provide growth capital for its pay-
by-phone-number system. Concurrently, the company
announced deals with several U.S. restaurant chains.

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Accel Braintree Online merchant services Braintree is the payments engine behind LivingSocial,
OpenTable, Shopify, and several lesser known online
product and service providers. Accel makes a Series A
investment in Braintree to finance expansion of the
company’s engineering, sales, and marketing efforts.
The company’s 2,000 merchants have enabled it to
become profitable in just under four years since its
founding.
DCM Revel Systems POS systems Revel provides iPad point of sale systems for the
restaurant and retail industries DCM injected $3.7
million to finance market share expansion.

Western Union Travelex Global International B2B WU further expands its trans-border B2B segment (it
Business Payments payments acquired Custom House in 2009) as it pays £606 million
for the division with 2011 forecast revenues of £150
million – must have wanted it in the worst way. TGBP
provides its services to over 35,000 business clients
including 500 banks.

Footnote on venture fundraising: Dow Jones reports capital raised by venture funds during the first half of 2011 rose 20 percent over 2010’s
first six months. U.S. private equity funds for the same period grew 35 percent. But the numbers can be confusing – early stage funds
actually shrank during the first half while late stage money had its strongest first half since 2007. European funds, on the other hand, had their
worst showing since 2004, declining by 45 percent in the first half of 2011.
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Useful Links for More Information
We threw a lot of new names out again this quarter. Here’s a list of links for you to
learn more.

Company Role Link
Corduro Low cost merchant services www.corduro.com

Silicon Valley Bank Tech and vineyard focused bank www.svb.com

Card.io Photo based card acceptance www.card.io

PayDivvy Social shared payments www.paydivvy.com

FreeMonee FI/merchant gifting network www.freemonee.com

Liqpay Facebook related payments www.liqpay.com

BankOns Coupons tied to card use www.bankons.com

GoalMine Save money/reduce debt system www.goalmine.com

OpenCuro User and payment security www.opencuro.com

Zoosh Sonic based mobile payments www.naratte.com

NuWallet Mobile wallets made easy www.nuwallet.com

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