At Web Shield, our mission is to help acquiring banks, payment service providers and other actors in the payments space to protect themselves from bad actors involved in illegal or non-compliant activities.
Our highly precise investigation tools deliver the information they need to make informed decisions about prospective clients, and alert them when existing ones behave dubiously.
We keep your business out of risky situations – while saving you time and money.
European-based provider of Merchant underwriting and monitoring solutions.
Global Merchant acquirers, PSPs, PFs and ISOs.
More than 45 employees in Germany, Poland, Netherlands and the UK.
Official Mastercard Merchant Monitoring Service Provider.
Based on the “Investigative Risk Analysis” methodology, we start developing our first software prototypes.
The process culminates in the version 1.0 of our SHIELD underwriting tool and MONITOR monitoring platform.
Following the successful testing of SHIELD & MONITOR, Web Shield Limited is incorporated in London, UK.
The first small team works from remote offices in several European countries.
The Web Shield Academy is established to foster awareness of new fraud trends and underwriting best practices.
At the same time, we open our headquarters in Leipzig, Germany.
From the beginning, we have fostered a constructive relationship with the credit card associations.
This culminates in Web Shield becoming an official Mastercard Merchant Monitoring Service Provider.
After going through three iterations of SHIELD and MONITOR, we were ready for something new.
With the Web Shield Due Diligence Suite, we combined more than eight services into one Risk Management platform.
The Due Diligence Suite was a big step forward, but it's complexity made it unwieldy for users.
InvestiGate and PULSE builds on its principles, while delivering a true user-focused experience.
Having met so many people over the years eager for risk and compliance knowledge, we established RiskConnect.
The annual networking conference serves a platform for meeting your peers and exchanging ideas.
Following the successful testing of SHIELD & MONITOR, Web Shield Limited is incorporated in London, UK.
The first small team works from remote offices in several European countries.
From the beginning, we have fostered a constructive relationship with the credit card associations.
This culminates in Web Shield becoming an official Mastercard Merchant Monitoring Service Provider.
The Due Diligence Suite was a big step forward, but it's complexity made it unwieldy for users.
InvestiGate and Monitor builds on its principles, while delivering a true user-focused experience.
Web Shield becomes part of ZignSec, the Swedish digital onboarding and ID verification innovator.
Together, we are building a one-stop-shop for KYC/KYB, due diligence and monitoring.
