Payment regulations
Card Schemes: Everything Merchants Need to Know
The Payment card schemes If you have a piece of plastic sitting in your wallet, you are familiar with payment card schemes; Visa and Mastercard…
20th October 2020
Tag: Payment regulations
Payment regulations
Visa Fraud Monitoring: What Merchants Need to Know
The Visa Fraud Monitoring Program (VFMP), an initiative by Visa that helps merchants identify and lower excessive fraud activity, recently made updates to their dispute
8th October 2020
Acquiring
5 Questions Merchants Should Ask Their Acquirer
For merchants, it is vital that their chosen payments acquirer has the ability to work with them as a partner as opposed to simply a
18th September 2020
Acquiring
What is an Acquirer and Why You Need (a Good) One
If you’re an entrepreneur looking to accept debit and credit cards for your business, you’ve come across the word “acquirer”. In the payments industry, acquirers
17th August 2020
Digital wallets
COVID-19 Changes the Payments Industry
From the rolling back of mandates to the rise of contactless transactions, the payments industry has seen its fair share of changes since the world
11th May 2020
Chargebacks
Mastercard Postpones Excessive Fraud and Chargeback Programs due to COVID-19
In October 2019, Mastercard announced they would be revising standards for their Excessive Fraud Merchant (EFM) and Excessive Chargeback Merchant (ECM) programs. These programs set
30th April 2020
Payment regulations
Visa’s New Mandate: What Free Trial & Subscription Merchants Need to Know
By April 18th, 2020, merchants offering introductory trials or promotions which roll into subscriptions have some changes to make. Visa has released a directive to
11th March 2020