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“Shop Safe” in America Competes Act hobbles America’s ability to compete

Over 2,000 pages were folded into the bill and passed under America Competes Act in order to curb harmful counterfeit items sold through online marketplaces. The long folded Shop Safe bill includes everything from research funding to shark fin sales and focuses on America’s competitiveness with China. While the goal of the bill can be

How COVID-19 Will Transform Payments and Credit Card Processing in 2022

There’s no doubt that the post-COVID-19 era would be spectacular. We can expect that in 2022, roads and trains will begin to fill with life as people travel back and forth without the sense of gloom and depredation hanging over their heads. High street retailers and restaurants will also start catering to live audiences. By

How to Prepare for the Second Wave of Covid-19

All over the U.S, businesses are reopening after the long months of lockdown. Still, businesses cannot operate at full capacity as activities resume at a slow pace to life as it used to be before the global pandemic. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over as new cases and deaths are still on the

10 Different Ways You Can Avoid Holiday Fraud

With the holiday approaching at a faster pace, it is sure that fraudsters are also planning on ways by which they are going to conduct holiday fraud this season. That implies that this is the right time for merchants to prepare for ways by which they can fight such fraudsters. The loss from online retail

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The State Of Credit Card Processing Industry In 2017

Despite the many payment options which are available to customers nowadays, credit card is still the leading payment method. In fact according to the consumer payment study which was conducted in 2016, this was the first time credit card lead as the most preferred way of making payment, thereby replacing debit as the number-one choice

MasterCard 2 Series – Are You Risking A Fine?

Because several U.S merchant see no immediate threat from counterfeit card fraud, they are still holding against EMV and business goes on. But they might all be forced to upgrade due to the obvious change in payment card acceptance. This year MasterCard has expanded to new 2-series card account numbers, Due to this fact some

PCI Compliance Fee: How to Eliminate?

Have you ever noticed a PCI Compliance fee or worse, a Non-PCI0 Compliance fee when looking at your merchant processing statement? Over the years, we’ve heard about this topic from many merchants and business owners that wanted clarification of why they’re being charged this PCI Compliance fee or if there was something small businesses could