The newest on regulations and card scheme rules

‍Mastercard is introducing revised standards for those who acquire adult merchants, effective 15 October 2021. Some of these new requirements are significant and will impact how acquirers on-board and monitor their adult content merchants.

Since November 2020, Mastercard rules require registration of so-called Deferred Delivery Merchants (DDM) with a quarterly volume of more than $5 million. This article looks at the specific requirements of the rule.

We examine the implications for acquirers and payment service providers of last year’s ruling from Europe’s highest court on CBD.

Card giant takes the lead in announcing new requirements for acquirers and their adult content merchants, particularly around controls, consent and the prohibition of child abuse material.

It seems as if currently every company has a product claiming to have artificial intelligence built in, but that is not quite how it works. Hear from the Head of the Deloitte aiStudio what artificial intelligence in the real world really looks like.

In reaction to new fraud trends, Mastercard is constantly amending its Business Risk Assessment and Mitigation (BRAM) program. This time around their focus lies on COVID-19 scams, celebrity endorsements and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS).

In June 2019, Visa announced the worldwide harmonisation of requirements for free trial merchants. We examine these requirements and highlight the similarities and differences with the Mastercard requirements that came into effect on 12 April 2019.‍

Risk and opportunity are intertwined — one cannot exist without the other. This is certainly true of the cryptocurrency space, but there are ways to harness the opportunities and minimise the risks.