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News on regulation, fraud, and card scheme rules
We keep you updated on card scheme rules, fraud trends, underwriting best practices, and Web Shield products.
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Underwriting trends
Cracking the code: understanding merchant category codes (MCCs)
Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) are four-digit codes used to categorise businesses based on their services, crucial for transaction classification and risk management.
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Regulation round-up
What 6AMLD means for your acquiring business
Regulators are stepping up the fight against dirty money. Firms must not only contend with regulatory fines and the impact of these on their operations, reputation and bottom line, there is also the constantly changing nature of the regulation itself.
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Regulation round-up
Mastercard announces additions to BRAM program
In response to recent trends in illegal or brand-damaging activity, Mastercard has updated its Business Risk Assessment and Mitigation (BRAM) program.
Underwriting trends
How to monitor eCommerce merchants
Implemented effectively, ongoing monitoring makes it easier to prevent, detect, respond, and recover from adverse incidents for any payment processing company.
Web Shield update
Web Shield partners with PAY. for merchant onboarding and monitoring
Together, PAY. and Web Shield aim to create a strategic partnership to facilitate growth in the European market through compliance.
Fraud focus
Fraud Trends 2021 into 2022
At the end of the year, we caught up with Web Shield CEO Alex Noton to look back on the main fraud trends to emerge during 2021 and the implications for fraud prevention and risk management in 2022.
Fraud focus
Riskconnect virtual 2021: how to follow the money
RiskConnect Virtual panellists discussed the challenges of investigating wrongdoing in a dynamic digital environment.
Fraud focus
On the trail of the cyber scammers
We caught up with Ken Gamble after his presentation at RiskConnect Virtual 2021 to find out more about the battle between good and evil in cyberspace.
Regulation round-up
How to sign adult content merchants with confidence
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.
Web Shield update
Stay compliant with Web Shield’s High-Risk Verification
High-Risk Verification for Web Shield’s InvestiGate delivers a full compliance review of any adult content merchant to help you comply with Mastercard rules.
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