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What is a White-Label Payment Gateway?

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Acting as a virtual bridge, it encrypts sensitive data, such as credit card details, and ensures its secure transmission for authorization and processing. The next step is to assess the vendor’s approach to data protection, encryption, and fraud prevention by ensuring they comply with the necessary security standards, such as PCI DSS.

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What is Payment Facilitation as a Service or PayFac-as-a-Service?

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For instance, ISOs, MSPs, embedded finance providers, cryptocurrency payment platforms, and others. Look into their payment fraud prevention measures, including data encryption, anti-fraud filters, and adherence to PCI DSS. This is particularly beneficial for FinTechs specializing in areas beyond payment facilitation.

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What is a Payment Processor?

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Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption became a standard, ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive information during online transactions. ISOs (Independent Sales Organizations) or MSPs (Merchant Service Providers) ISOs, or Independent Sales Organizations , act as intermediaries between merchants and acquirers.

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Merchant Processing Explained: What Happens Behind the Swipe?

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Between the alphabet soup of acronyms (PCI? Merchant Service Providers (MSPs) Your merchant service provider (MSP) is your dedicated point of contact for anything payment-related. Payment processors take the encrypted payment information from the gateway and exchange it with the card networks and banks.

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