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Worldpay agrees to buy tech firm

By Matt Kempner
Nov 11, 2014

Worldpay, a payments technology company with its U.S. base in Sandy Springs, has agreed to acquire a Texas software maker, the company announced Tuesday.

Austin-based SecureNet Payment Systems has technology that helps retailers and other businesses streamline and integrate how they accept payments in stores, online and by mobile, and how they wrap in other data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

SecureNet has about 100 employees and will remain based in Austin, Worldpay US chief executive Tony Catalfano said.

“The way people pay and are paying is dramatically changing,” Catalfano said. SecureNet’s technology will allow business customers to “create a very seamless customer payment via any channel.”

Worldpay US has about 1,200 employees, just over half of whom are in metro Atlanta.

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Matt Kempner is an award-winning journalist who seeks out intriguing twists about people and subjects beyond what the AJC might typically cover. A former columnist and editor, his past assignments have included business investigations, energy, the economy, entrepreneurs, big business, consumer spending, politics, government and the environment.

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