Guest post by Beth Kotz, Credit.com If you own or manage a business, you understand the vital importance of a coherent business plan. Your business plan represents the essential blueprint from which your company is built and directed, and in order to be effective, it … Read more
How many of your merchants are just checking the boxes? Checkbox compliance is nothing new in the payments industry. In fact, Google “checkbox compliance” and you quickly see that thousands of posts have been written about it. These posts describe the exercise of racing to … Read more
If you missed the QIR deadline, you need to act fast. At last month’s Northeast Acquirers Association (NEAA) Conference, I joined the Legislative Panel to speak on the subject of the Visa Qualified Integrators & Resellers (QIR) program. My talking points were timely, given the … Read more
This week, the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) announced their release of Revision 1.1 to SAQ 3.2. The SSC characterizes this revision as “errata,” and after careful examination, it is truly mostly “errata.” That is, there are small language changes, some corrected misspellings and a few instances of … Read more
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has been integrated into more and more mobile devices in recent years, meaning instances of mobile contactless payments are continuing to grow as more retailers accept mobile payments in-store. However, with new financial technologies come new ways for criminals to potentially defraud … Read more
Consumers raise red flags about non-compliant businesses. While most of the PCI compliance questions we receive are from businesses working to understand and implement the standard, there is one question we are asked time and again by consumers. That question is, “How do I report … Read more