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 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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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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Question by Ysabel K: Is a wireless terminal for a high risk merchant account better than a manual imprinter?
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Answer by Marie C
Wireless terminals are more expensive than manual imprinters but are greatly useful to high risk merchants. They are efficient credit card terminals that let you know immediately whether a transaction is authorized or not. Manual imprinters are rather cheaper but work best with bulk orders.
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High–risk industries can now accept online credit card payments and secure a …
UltimateMerchantProviders.com have a newly launched service that aims to help businesses that operate within so called 'high-risk' industries secure merchant accounts more easily in order to enable them to accept debit and credit card payments as well …
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Marijuana Merchants Denied Bank Accounts
Ryan Kunkel is a legal marijuana merchant and owns several dispensaries in the Seattle area. But because banks are worried about the implications of being in professional cahoots with "drug dealers," many—incuding state-chartered ones—are denying …
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100BestMerchantAccounts.com Names Top 3 Merchant Account Providers for …
A few things to consider when reviewing merchant account services: setup fees, processing rates, and other account service fees. Some merchants specialize in international merchant accounts, high-risk merchants, small business services, or other …
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Boom time for e-commerce in India; but customers face heightened risk of fraud
NEW DELHI: As more Indians step up to make online payments, there is a proliferation of payment gateways and mobile wallets, many of which are facing the risk of being misused by unscrupulous merchants. Payment service providers like Citrus Pay and …
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Digital River and Klarna form online payments alliance
As part of another agreement, Klarna is using the Digital River World Payments solution to process consumers' credit card and online bank transfer payments through Digital River's international payment gateway. In 2013, Digital River processed more …
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Japanese Exchange BitFlyer Raises 6k in Growth Funding
As well as allowing people to buy and sell bitcoin, bitFlyer partnered with GMO Payment Gateway to provide a bitcoin payment option to 48,000 online merchants in late September. Earlier the same month, the firm launched Japan's first bitcoin …
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Foreigners continue buying local government debt despite risks
Last month foreign investors, who account for nearly 40% of the domestic market, bought R8.7bn of local bonds following May's purchases of R7bn, Barclays Africa South African strategist Michael Keenan said on Friday. Investors were taking advantage of …
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Bank Mutual Corporation Reports 35% Increase In Net Income For The Second …
This improvement resulted in a decline in the portion of Bank Mutual's allowance for loan loss that is determined primarily by internal risk ratings and the level of loans within each rating. General economic, employment, and real … Deposit-related …
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ProPay® Launches TSYS Guardian CyberShieldSM in Partnership with …
“While many businesses are challenged with determining whether or not an online transaction, account login or other activity is fraudulent, The Network provides TSYS Guardian CyberShield the capability to identify high-risk transactions in real time …
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Question by : What is a high risk merchant account?
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Answer by stymiee
Some businesses by their very nature have higher then normal chargeback rates. Sometimes this is due to the product or service offered by the merchant being in high demand but also being high priced (e.g. high end electronic, jewelry, etc.). Sometimes it is because the service causes customers to be misled whether intentionally or not (e.g. multi-level marketing schemes). Regardless of the root cause these businesses will usually find it difficult, if not impossible, to establish a merchant account.
The businesses considered to be high risk will vary from merchant account provider to provider. However, there are some businesses and industries that are consistently considered high risk. This list includes:
* Adult Book Stores
* Adult Entertainment
* Adult Novelties
* Adult Video Stores
* Advanced Sales
* Check Cashing Services
* Child Pornography
* Collection Agencies
* Credit Repair Services
* Dating/Escort
* Diet Marketers/Programs
* Exotic Dancing Establishments
* Multi-level Marketing
* Pharmacies (Card Not Present/Internet)
* Pornography
* Sexual Encounter Firms
* Telemarketing
* Time Share
* Travel Clubs/Tours/Guides
* Vacation Packages
For these businesses to accept credit cards they typically have to turn to high risk merchant account providers. These companies are typically off shore and always charge higher rates then traditional merchant account providers. Rates can go as high as 20% of sales and some may charge set up fees of $ 1,000 or higher. The reason why these rates and fees are so high is the high risk merchant account provider needs to make sure they make enough money to cover the costs of the high number of chargebacks they will receive.
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