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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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Expert interviews
Understanding merchant underwriters - The gatekeepers of the payments ecosystem
Merchant underwriting involves assessing and managing risks associated with merchants, using analytical skills and industry knowledge to uncover hidden threats.
Fraud focus
How Deceptive Marketing Endangers Your Business
Deceptive Marketing can make even seemingly legitimate low-risk merchants problematic. Acquiring Banks and Payment Service Providers should know how these merchants operate.
Expert interviews
Essential Merchant Monitoring Best Practices to Enhance Security
Especially when it comes to high-risk businesses, merchant monitoring is crucial for the portfolio of Acquiring Banks and Payment Service Providers. Find out how you can improve your monitoring regime and make it more systematic.
Fraud focus
Merchant Threats and Fraud Trends
If we learn from the past, we can prepare for the future. That's why we take a look back at the most important fraud trends of 2018 and project what will be relevant next year.
Web Shield updates
Compliance for Cryptocurrency Merchants with Legal Library
We have launched our new Regulatory Monitoring solution to enable acquiring banks and payment service providers to comply with the latest Mastercard rules concerning cryptocurrency merchants.
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Underwriting trends
Merchant Monitoring Case Study: Why Underwriting Isn't Enough
Learn why merchant monitoring complements underwriting and is crucial to building a profitable and compliant client portfolio.
Underwriting trends
Seven Ways to Become a Better Risk Professional
Being a payment, risk or anti-fraud professional is challenging. We have compiled seven easy steps you can get better at your job.
Expert interviews
High-Risk Business in Payment Processing: Key Insights and Trends
Web Shield's CEO and founder talks about his “Understanding High-Risk Business” book and how we can identify high-risk industries, even when they are not on any official list by the card associations.
Expert interviews
How to Combat Transaction Laundering: A Guide
What is Transaction Laundering? What can Merchant Acquiring Banks and Payment Service Providers do against fraudsters hijacking legitimate transactions? Christian Chmiel, CEO & Founder of Web Shield, explains.
Web Shield updates
Dispute Resolution Platform: Web Shield Launches for Acquirers
Mastercard has changed its dispute resolution process to include a pre-dispute or collaboration stage.
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