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Electronic Clearing House Inc. (Nasdaq:ECHO), a leading provider of electronic payment and transaction processing services, announced today that it has successfully completed a pilot with Global Check Services to provide the Visa Point-of-Sale (POS) Check Service to Global's growing merchant base. Global Check Services, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a provider of check conversion, check verification, and internet check processing services.
Global Check Services will roll out ECHO's Visa POS Check Service to 5,000 of its merchant locations in April, 2004. Global Check Services will also sell the Visa POS Check product to new merchants.
"Global Check Services is a highly respected, quality provider of check services in the San Diego area and we are pleased to assist them to enhance the check services they offer to their merchants nationwide," said Joel M. Barry, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Clearing House, Inc.
"We have had tremendous interest in implementing the Visa POS Check Service for our merchants and we look forward to working with ECHO to bring this innovative solution to them," said Dave Homoki, President of Global Check Services.