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These organizations operate by partnering with other entities, like acquiring banks and financial platforms, that provide the necessary infrastructure for payment processing to take place. Choose a partner that is PCIDSS compliant. But what exactly are ISOs, and how to become an ISO partner? 24/7 customer support.
Between the alphabet soup of acronyms (PCI? More specifically, the OCC labels a merchant processing activity as: “the settlement of credit and debit card payment transactions by banks for merchants through various cardassociations.” The issuing bank gets its name because it issued the credit card to your customer.
A Acquirer The financial institution that processes payments on behalf of merchants. Address Verification Service (AVS) A fraud prevention tool that checks the billing address provided by the cardholder against the address on file with the card issuer. Cardholder The person who owns the payment card being used to make a purchase.
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