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Friday, April 3, 2015

Why Heartland Payments is 'Crawling' Toward Bitcoin Integration

Joe Wysocki, heartland When Heartland Payments e-commerce director Joe Wysocki looks to add a product or service to his company's portfolio, he looks for three factors – that it will help Heartland's merchants improve security, convert shoppers and obtain repeat business.


Bitcoin, Wysocki says, aligns with these principles.


In a new interview with CoinDesk, Wysocki discussed the strategy behind the fifth-largest US payments processor's recent referral deal with BitPay, and the forces that encouraged it to consider its first opportunity in the digital currency market.


Continue reading at CoinDesk