Phoenix Managed Networks and Wink merged in March of this year in an all-stock transaction. Owners of those companies now hold 50%-50% interest in the new company, which combines Wink’s biometric identity and authentication assets with Phoenix’s POS network operations, PCI level 1 communications network and payment gateway services. The merged company operates under the Wink name worldwide. It plans to leverage connections to all major US acquirers and processors as well as the card networks to bring biometrics to merchants. Demographics favor that assumption. Gen X, millennial and Gen ...