Elavon, the fifth largest U.S. acquirer of payment card transactions, provides services to more than 3,000 local and state government agencies. A subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon has formed a partnership with System Innovators (SI), a system integrator to local and state governments. SI provides a back-office service that reconciles all payments received as well as a front-end software interface that supports payments handled at lockboxes, online, and over the counter (including cash). The partners have dozens of government agencies as customers in common. They will offer an integrated payme...