'City Is Still in Distress': Detroit Bankruptcy Trial Opens
On June 17 of this year, at just before midnight, the Budi Mesra Dua was overcome by a high-speed wooden boat as she steamed slowly with a cargo of diesel oil, according to an account from ReCAAP. Six pirates armed with swords tied down the crew of the …
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Ready for Battle
Risks impacting retailers' information technology systems and data breaches “are at an all-time high,” according to the 2014 BDO Retail Risk Factor Report. Since 2009, the number of retailers citing concerns over data security has more than doubled …
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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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Aida Greenbury: Leading the line
Greenbury takes this leadership seriously and is calling on other companies to follow its lead and the industry as a whole, including printers and paper merchants, to examine their whole supply chain and reject any supplier that relies even slightly on …
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Optimal Payments shares jump on acquisitions
The two deals combined will increase Optimal Payments' handling of merchant transaction and reduce the company's reliance on online gambling. The majority of the company's Ebitda in the past year comes from the NETELLER online gambling product.
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Why being an Australian startup sucks
I've wanted to write this piece for a while now, after bootstrapping in Australia for over five years we're finally getting traction. It's been a long hard slog, we've failed at almost 8 ideas and taken absolutely no funding. Maybe that's another story …
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Question by Drew H: Do i need to apply for a high risk merchant account offshore when selling my online games (consoles, titles)?
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Answer by Phoenix
You don’t need to if you don’t intend to increase the monthly volume of your sales. Many gaming vendors feel the need to apply for a high risk merchant account because they transact high volume sales as their businesses grow. Also, due to the nature of the business, they find it difficult to get accepted in the local banks’ merchant services. If you find that an offshore provider works to your advantage then you should apply for one.
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