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Susan Matt
How ISOs & Acquirers Can Execute an Effective Merchant PCI Risk Strategy
PCI risk profiling is not easy. To provide ISOs, processors and sponsor banks with assistance on PCI profiling, ControlScan and ThoughtKey have developed a series of Webinars dedicated to this topic.
Our most recent Webinar, How ISOs & Acquirers Can Execute an Effective Merchant PCI Risk Strategy, highlights numerous tips to help guide you through the complex maze of risk profiling, while providing value-added opportunities to your merchants. The concepts provided are simple; however, without a doubt, the effort to perform and manage these steps is quite complex unless the proper information is gathered at the appropriate points throughout the merchant lifecycle. Read on to learn how you can establish a best practice methodology that will allow you to further build upon existing risk profiling processes or establish a new framework from the ground up.
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