Links

Payment Processing Resources

ePaynews.com - The payment news and resource center

Visit Website
ePaynews.com is a free news portal and research tool that focuses on retail payment and transaction reconciliation solutions to give payment professionals a dynamic information resource for their industry. The site is updated daily with fresh content from the Web and trade sources to give an informative overview of payments trends in the retail, unattended payments and cash management fields.

VeriFone - Global payment technology leader

Visit Website
By any measure, VeriFone is the global leader in secure electronic payment technologies. Their size, scale and expertise provide unrivalled breadth and flexibility to customers and partners. With more installed systems than any other company they have access to a storehouse of hands-on knowledge and experience can share with the marketplace. With distribution to more than 100 countries, they are available and ready to assist wherever business is conducted.

While global in scale, VeriFone serves customers through an efficient network of smaller distributed locations around the world rather than a traditional operation with a central headquarters. This structure includes recognized Centers of Excellence-local offices and teams that take the lead on developing products based on emerging technologies. Any time of day, somewhere in the world, VeriFone employees are working to create innovative payment solutions, and to customize and fine-tune them to market requirements.

SAP Global - SAP R/3

Visit Website
SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

PCI Security Standards Council - Data Security Standard

View PDF
This document describes the 12 Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements.

PCI Security Standards Council - Home page

Visit Website
The PCI Security Standards Council is an open global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.

Visa's Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) Overview

Visit Website
The Visa Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) aims to secure Visa cardholder data wherever it resides, requiring that members, merchants, and service providers maintain the highest information security standards.

CISP compliance is required of all entities that store, process, or transmit Visa cardholder data.

Visa USA Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) - Details in PDF

View PDF
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard is a result of a collaboration between Visa® and MasterCard to create common industry security requirements. Other card companies operating in the U.S. have also endorsed the standard within their respective programs. These 12 requirements are the foundation of Visa's CISP.