Segpay
Ready for New Visa Acquirer Changes?
Next spring, Visa will roll out the U.S. version of its new Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP), which goes into effect April 1, 2025. This follows Visa Europe, which rolled out VAMP back in June. VAMP charts a new path for acquirers to manage fraud and chargeback ratios.
How to Halt Hackers as Fraud Attacks Rise
For hackers, it’s often a game of trial and error. Bad actors will perform enumeration and account testing, repeating the same test on a system to look for vulnerabilities — and if you are not equipped with the proper tools, your merchant account could be the next target.
Segpay to Mark 20th Anniversary With New Branding, Themed Logo
Segpay has launched a year-long integrated marketing campaign to celebrate its upcoming 20th anniversary in April 2025, featuring themed branding.
Staying Compliant to Avoid the Takedown Shakedown
Dealing with complaints is an everyday part of doing business — and a crucial one, since not dealing with them properly can haunt your business in multiple ways. Card brand regulations require every merchant doing business online to have in place a complaint process for reporting content that may be illegal or that violates the card brand rules.
WIA Profile: Patricia Ucros
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Ucros graduated from college with a degree in education. She spent three years teaching third grade, which she enjoyed a lot, before heeding her father’s advice and moving to South Florida.
Account-to-Account Payments: The New Banking Disruptor?
So much of our industry relies upon Visa and Mastercard to support consumer payments — and with that reliance comes increased scrutiny by both brands. From a compliance perspective, the bar keeps getting raised until it feels like we end up spending half our time making sure we are compliant rather than growing our business.
Making the Most of Your Sales Opportunities
The compliance road has been full of twists and turns this year. For many, it’s been a companywide effort just to make it across that finish line. Hopefully, most of us can now return our attention to some important things we’ve left on the back burner for months — like driving revenue.
The Search for Perfection in Your Payments Page
There has been a lot of talk about changes to cross sales and checkout pages. You have likely noticed that acquirers are now actively pushing back on allowing merchants to offer a negative option, upsell or any cross sales on payment pages.
Merchants in Spotlight With Visa's VIRP
By now, most merchants know about the Visa Integrity Risk Program (VIRP) rolled out in spring 2023. The program is designed to ensure that acquirers and their designated agents — payment facilitators, independent sales organizations and wallets — maintain proper controls and oversight to prevent illegal transactions from entering the Visa payment system.
ASACP Names MojoHost, Segpay, TES Affiliate Conferences 'Featured Sponsors' for June
The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has named MojoHost, Segpay and TES Affiliate Conferences as its featured sponsors for June 2024.
Adding AI to Your Company's Tech Toolbox
Artificial intelligence is all the rage. Not only is AI all over the headlines, it is also top of mind for many company leadership teams, who find themselves asking, “How can this new tool help our company?”
Segpay Launches Virtual 'Segcard' Creator Payout Solution
Segpay is replacing its physical Segcard creator payout solution with a new, virtual version.
The Dos and Don'ts of AI-Generated Content
AI is a hot topic. From automation to personal assistance to content generation, AI technology is already impacting our daily lives. Many industries, including adult, have had positive results using AI for customer support and marketing.
Unpacking the New Digital Services Act
Do you hear the word “regulation” and get nervous? When it comes to the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), you shouldn’t worry. If you’re complying with the most up-to-date card brand regulations, you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Segpay's Cathy Beardsley Named Among American Banker's 2024 'Most Influential Women in Payments'
Segpay CEO Cathy Beardsley has been named one of American Banker’s 2024 Most Influential Women in Payments.
The Taxman Cometh for Every Business
February may be the month of romance, but it is also a time when we need to think about something that inspires very little love: taxes. April is not far away, and the taxman is always waiting. This year, federal and most state income taxes are due Monday, April 15.
The ABCs of KYB and KYC
As a payment processor, we devote a lot of time and energy to applying two crucial principles: Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC). If you’ve engaged in this process, you know how difficult it can be, but we go through it to be sure we are onboarding a good merchant.
Segpay Reports 17% Growth in 2023
Segpay announced today that it finished 2023 up 17% in overall growth.
How to Stay Off the Compliance Naughty List
No reward comes without a little work. For merchants taking advantage of all the opportunities offered by payment processing, that work includes the underwriting and compliance processes — which can be a bit of a challenge.
Unpacking Mastercard's Enhanced Communication Path
Sharing information is important between card associations and service providers like payment facilitators and independent payment operators. In those relationships, information typically flows from the card brands to the acquirers, and then to service providers.