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Visa Updates: Updates to Visa Secure Data Field Mandate (January 2024)
Visa has updated the Visa Secure data field mandate, originally announced in the 31 August 2023 edition of the Visa Business News. The effective date for these changes has been extended to 12 August 2024, and the number of required data fields has been reduced. Visa...
What NGOs and Charities need to know when considering Online Fundraising
In Hong Kong, holding public fundraising activities in public places(1) require prior application and approval from the Social Welfare Department, such as flag day or street charity sales. If the time of e-flag selling is close to the approved flag-selling day, or has...
3DS 2.0 – Have you Upgraded yet? Upgrade before October 2022
3DS1 will be discontinued by payment networks from October 2022, and have mandated the ecosystem to upgrade to 3DS2. Please see below deadlines to ensure you have updated 3DS to avoid disruption: American Express - 14 October 2022 Discover / Diners - 14 October 2022...
Visa’s Latest Dispute Rule Updates: Evolution of Compelling Evidence
Compelling Evidence: Visa’s Latest Dispute Rule Updates and the Evolution. Effective from 15 April 2023, Visa will implement new standardisation of data to enhance chargeback processing. This update particularly covers card-not-present (CNP) chargebacks regarding the...
3-D Secure 2.0 is here
While the original 3-D Secure protocol was developed more than 15 years ago to mitigate fraud in ecommerce transactions, the acceleration of ecommerce in recent years calls for greater payment security as fraudsters also turn to digital. 3-D Secure 2.0 addresses the...
Preparing for 8-Digit BINs
The payments industry is experiencing a shortage of Bank Identification Numbers (BINs), as a result of growing digital payment innovation in recent years. BINs comprise the first six numbers of the primary account numbers (PAN), also visible as the first six digits on...
Card Testing Fraud Mitigation in 2021
Card Testing Fraud was widely reported in the recent year, affecting many online merchants’ businesses. In this report, you will learn: The mechanism of Card Testing How fraudster implement Card Testing The impact of Card Testing on your business How to identify Card...
What Is Online Payment Fraud And How To Prevent It?
Think of online payment fraud as any illegal or false transaction that can happen on the internet. Through payment fraud, cybercriminals can steal your money, sensitive information, and even at times, your personal property. Thus, it becomes imperative to take...
Card Testing Harms the Online Merchants A Lot, How To Prevent Card Testing?
Card testing continuously happened in retail world and this advanced operation is normally been used by the fraudsters to identify whether the card can be credited or not. Usually, the fraudster would test the card details specially in non-profit organisations such as...