The battle against payment fraud is never ending. It evolves constantly, with hackers creating increasingly sophisticated ways to breach data systems and steal identities. In 2018, malware and ransomware constituted major threats, followed by social engineering attacks and phishing attempts. Online and mobile transactions are particularly vulnerable to breaches, and...
4 Tips for Secure High-risk Credit Card Processing
When expanding to new markets, most online merchants face a variety of challenges from logistics and legal issues to local taxes and cultural differences. Payments and credit card processing are also key issues that require considerable attention. When scaling to untested locations, businesses often experience inflated processing fees, lower conversion...
How to Succeed in the High-risk Travel Industry
The travel industry is constantly expanding and evolving. However, in an industry defined as high risk, merchants face many challenges from high fraud levels and chargebacks to low acceptance rates and future fufillment models. As a travel service provider's business scales to global markets, so the risks increase. How can...
What to Look for in Online Payment Solutions
One of the major decisions an e-commerce merchant must make is which online payment solution to use. Many online merchants offer payments in various countries and on a variety of devices from laptops to smartphones. What kind of solution should you be seeking when you need to accept online payments...
Are Your Payments Out of Control?
When scaling to global markets many online businesses in a wide range of industries encounter new payments challenges including spiralling costs, increased decline rates, greater fraud risks and low conversion rates. What is causing these changes in your payment ecosystem? How can you improve results? Our new eBook A Merchant’s Guide...
Online Credit Card Processing for Travel Providers – How to Make it Work
How to succeed in the highly competitive travel sector With the drop in travel costs, individuals who have never left their native country before are off to see the world. Global travel industry gross bookings hit $1.6 trillion in 2017, making it one of the largest and fastest growing industries...
What Should You Look for in an eCommerce Marketplace?
Most online enterprises seek to expand their activities across borders into new markets. The costs of opening and translating global websites, managing local operations and logistics, developing regional advertising, stocking inventory and organizing payment processing can be prohibitive. Some ecommerce businesses prefer to test the waters in new cross-border markets...