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Industry Terms: PCI DSS

This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog's Knowledge Base effort. Well we want to make the payment processing industry's terms and buzzwords clear. W...

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Trending ... Social Gifting [2023 Update]

The Official Merchant Services Blog keeps its finger on the pulse of e-commerce, and today we're giving you the scoop on the latest hot trend ... Social Gifting. What is S...

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Debit, Merchants and Durbin

Today The Official Merchant Services Blog jumps feet first into an update on everyone's favorite payment processing industry-focused legislation, the Durbin Amendment. We've cover...

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Visa's Ups and Downs

The Official Merchant Services Blog takes a look at Visa's wild ride between May 2 and May 3. In the midst of a very active first quarter of 2012, Visa's earnings report came in. T...

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Data Breach News: [2023 Update]

Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is updating its coverage of the Global Payments Data Breach. The news of this breach hit on Friday, March 30. At first there reports of a ...

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Internet Security

Security is one of the defining internet issues of this decade.  While there is not one distinct body of law that governs a company’s rights and responsibilities, there are meth...

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Industry Terms: Chargeback

This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog's Knowledge Base effort. Well we want to make the payment processing industry's terms and buzzwords clear. We ...

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VexxHost Partnership

One constant struggle that we’ve seen with our customers is the ability to perform credit card transactions on their website.  While there are plenty of credit card processing...

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Protection from Fraud

How to Protect Your Business from Merchant Account Fraud In order to protect your business from high risk merchant account fraud, you will find yourself in the position of having ...

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