Merchant Link is a leading provider of cloud-based payment gateway and data security solutions, removing the risk and hassle from credit card acceptance for more than 150,000 restaurants, hotels and retailers. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., Merchant Link currently enables more than 3 billion transactions annually for some of the world's best-known merchants, providing connectivity to the major U.S. payment card processors. TransactionVault, our tokenization solution, and TransactionShield, our point-to-point encryption solution, mitigate the risk of a data compromise while lowering the cost and effort of PCI compliance.