SMB Market Leader Direct Connect is the largest merchant acquirer for small and mid-size merchants in the United States, serving more than ten thousand merchants and processing around two billion dollars in annual transactions, signaling strong cross-sell potential for additional payment tools, hardware, and managed services across a broad SMB base.

Channel Driven Growth Growth is driven by partnerships with independent sales organizations, independent software vendors, community banks, and software developers, creating scalable opportunities to partner with fintechs and software platforms to deliver integrated payment solutions to merchants.

Real Estate Tie-In An April twenty twenty integration with Property Tree signals a vertical opportunity in real estate and property management for rent collection, deposits, and recurring billing within existing partner ecosystems.

Security and Compliance Fully PCI compliant processing with a dedicated team of more than one hundred fifty experts strengthens the security and compliance value proposition, enabling upsell of security features, tokenization, and compliance services to merchants.

North American Reach Serving customers in the United States and Canada with a sizable SMB merchant base and substantial annual transaction volume, Direct Connect is positioned to expand cross-border payments, multi currency support, and regional go to market efforts by leveraging existing ISO, ISV and bank partnerships to recruit Canadian merchants.