The head of Fiserv hinted that it will pitch the point-of-sale platform Clover, which it would get in the First Data deal, to community banks as a way to defend their small-business market share from Square.
Fiserv is servicing these banks with less than $50 billion in assets that don’t have large IT shops, or don’t rely on outsourced or hosted solutions from third parties. These banks will have small-business customers coming in to ask about different services, maybe mobile payments, and now they have something additional they can point to in Clover.