Question by avery: Are travel agencies considered high risk?
If so, what are the reasons? does it mean that it’s also risky to book flights with them?
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Answer by Sophie
they tend to overcharge, and are not so trustworthy when it comes to saving you $ $ $ .
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Bricks and 'clicks' can co-exist
We are all aware of the stats that identify the exponential growth of online sales, but the fact remains that even in the most mature markets they account for below 10 per cent of aggregate sales. … What started as a personal relationship between a …
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Fitch Affirms Redecard's IDR at 'BBB+'; Outlook Stable
They account for about 32% of the Brazilian banking system. Redecard's affiliation with these leading banks gives it access to their broad customer base to acquire merchants accounts and creates high barriers to entry. The penetration of credit and …
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House Small Business Committee Hearing
As a result, it could be argued that small businesses that blindly accept Bitcoin are not actually in commerce but are in the high-risk speculative trading business. In contrast to small businesses, a Wall Street trading company might be willing to …
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Can a phone replace your wallet? I went shopping to find out.
Google Wallet, PayPal, and Apple Pay are all mobile payment leaders with substantial clout, but even they struggle to get merchants to invest in the tech that enables tap-to-pay transactions. There's also SoftCard, a mobile payments solution from AT&T …
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NRG Energy's (NRG) CEO David Crane on Q3 2014 Results – Earnings Call …
We urge everyone to review the Safe Harbor statement provided in today's presentation as well as the risk factors contained in our SEC filings. We undertake no obligation to update these …. This again highlights the value of our balanced portfolio …
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Question by Joaquin M: Is it better to use Paypal or get a 3rd party free merchant account if I have a high risk business?
I have a growing high risk business. Do I keep on using Paypal or get a merchant account as my biz grows? Is it safer to opt for a 3rd party high risk merchant account provider?
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Answer by Joe C
Although I have used PayPal, I’ve heard a lot of unfavorable things about them.
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Woodside's Buyback Deal With Shell at Risk of Being Blocked
Some of the Shell executives involved, including for example, Tim Hannagan, still hold high positions inside Shell – in his case, Global Brand and Visual Identity Manager. If Shell does not accept that this is a true, provable account of what happened …
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Fixed income and event driven Americas winners announced
The firm was founded in 2005 by Wartell and Jeffrey Bersh. The pair met in 1993 when they were both junior high yield analysts with adjacent desks at Merrill Lynch. Wartell moved on to the proprietary trading desk at Merrill and in 1999 joined Deutsche …
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Question by wicked_redhead3: Looking for a high risk payment processor (merchant account)?
I’m going to try and ask this question one last time. I am looking for a payment processor for a adult dating site. I have searched for weeks for one in the US and so far none that accept this type of business so I am now looking for payment processing companies in other countries. Please do not respond is you are doing a quick search and post a few names that show up. I have already done that. I am wanting to hear from people that use a company and can suggest a company that they use or have used with having no problems with them.
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Answer by Robert
The only one that I know of is charge.com I have been recently looking for a high risk merchant payment gateway as well (though not for adult related industry) and aside from some offshore places, they were the only one that would take me on. I ended up forming another company that has absolutly nothing to do with my business and getting a merchant account for that company. Since my original company owns 51% of the new company, it is legal for me to use it to pull my payments.
Hope this helps.
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Question by Dan: How do high risk merchant account providers assess the cost of setting up an individual merchant account?
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Answer by Marie C
Many high risk merchant account providers will assess your costs depending on your business profile, owner’s personal credit, time in business, average ticket charge, monthly processing volume, business solvency, past processing history, and other lesser but important factors.
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Breach risk a retail reality
Cyberattacks are growing in size, too, with tens of millions of consumers potentially facing the prospect of having their identities or credit or debit card account information stolen. One breach of 100 million records or more has been reported in each …
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The Struggle to Make the Checkout Lane Safer
We hold instant gratification in high regard, so rather than appreciating a worker's effort to prevent credit card fraud, a customer would probably be irritated if asked to produce their ID during a transaction. Jeffrey Sklar, a financial … “The …
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New weapon to fight credit card fraud at the gas station
Criminals who steal credit or debit cards or make counterfeit ones with stolen account numbers need somewhere to use them without getting caught. At self-serve gas … “As soon as we see that high-risk transaction, we also send the issuing bank a …
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Question by Phoenix: What’s the average rate of acceptance for high risk merchant account applicants put under the TMF?
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Answer by Merchant Helper
I’ll be upfront with you, its not good. < 1%. Processors take TMF's very serously and it is hard to place merchants that have been TMF'd.
Its much easier to resolve the TMF, or in some cases reincorporate.
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Finding Out Whom to Trust When You Do Business Together
But he didn't warn me about the risks I might face in driving a 22-year old car with 144,000 miles on it to a very hot location during the summer, though I knew of a few other people who had driven cars over 200,000 miles. But the … Then the …
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Investors Turn More Positive on the Outlook for Global Equities Markets
TOKYO, PLANTATION, Fla. and HONG KONG, Oct. 7, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TradeStation, a Monex Group company (Monex Group, Inc. is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, code: 8698), today announced results of the "Monex …
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Why Breached Retailers Get Hit Again
"Anyone in a franchised environment, which SuperValu is, cannot be totally sure that all the risk has been squeezed out of the system, as if that is even possible," says Gray Taylor, executive director of Conexxus, a technology consortium dedicated to …
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