Fort Worth, Texas, April 14, 2016 — First American Payment Systems, a leader in payments, and UL Transaction Security have partnered together to offer ASTREX, a real-time payments simulator, to reduce development time and streamline EMV validation for ISVs and VARs. Paired with First American’s semi-integrated EMV solution, the testing environment will ease the burden of EMV development and validation, resulting in a faster time to market.