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Fraud Prevention

Unique card identifier gives merchants another anti-fraud tool

Starting today, merchants have the option to include in postback notifications a unique Payment Account ID that identifies the credit card used in transactions on the Segpay system – whether an initial sale, rebill or refund – giving merchants another way to identify their consumers. The Payment Account ID is sent as a secure tokenized

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Segpay Offers Merchants Another Anti-Fraud Tool

Starting today, merchants have the option to include in postback notifications a unique Payment Account ID that identifies the credit card used in transactions on the Segpay system – whether an initial sale, rebill or refund – giving merchants another way to identify their consumers. The Payment Account ID is sent as a secure tokenized

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Breaking Down the Latest from Visa and Mastercard

Visa and Mastercard are shuffling the deck in 2019, impacting the way business is done in the world of payments.  Starting this month, Mastercard is requiring more transparency for free trials associated with physical products such as skin care or other healthcare items.  Visa recently announced lower chargeback thresholds, to take effect this coming October. 

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Segpay Stands on Anti-Money Laundering Front Lines

Last year Segpay was re-authorized as a Payment Institution in the UK, and, by extension, the EU as well. It’s an important designation that tells merchants that a processor adheres to stringent governmental regulations around payment and data security, as well as anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing laws. In the EU, payment processors who

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UK Age Verification Starts July 15

A quick follow up to our post from last month about the revised deadline for complying with age verification regulations in the UK. According to a BBC News report, the new deadline is July 15th. As a reminder, we have teamed with AV Secure to make it easy for Segpay merchants to implement an effective

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Marco Escobar

Get to Know a Segpay Employee: Marco

A little more than a year ago, Segpay welcomed Marco Escobar as its IT Director, responsible for all of our systems and PCI compliance efforts. We sat down with Marco to learn more about him. Where are you from originally? Born in Secaucus, New Jersey – home of the NFL replay studio. We lived in

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Irish Flag

Segpay Ireland Aims to Make Our Merchants Brexit-Proof

Now that Brexit has been put off another 6 months, we can all breathe a little easier, right? The current agreement delays the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) until October 31st; however it also stipulates that Brexit is immediately triggered on June 1st if the UK does not hold EU Parliamentary elections next

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Delayed

UK Age Verification Reportedly Delayed Again

The deadline for adult websites to implement age verification measures for UK customers has been a long time in coming. The original April 2018 target date for implementation was postponed and now, according to some reports, the new date, which had been reported as April 1st of this year, will be moved again. Nothing is

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How to Boost Customer Retention in a Competetive Marketplace

The Segpay team is attending the Phoenix Forum March 28th-30th where we’ll have the honor of hosting a Friday morning panel discussion titled, Revving up Retention: Key ways to keep business in the competitive marketplace. Cathy is moderating the panel, and will join four other business leaders in sharing strategies for retaining customers on recurring, subscription-based services. The

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