) June 25, 2009 -- Merchant Data Systems (merchantdatasystems.com), a full service payment processing company, has joined forces with ControlScan (controlscan.com), a leading provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small- to medium-sized merchants, to help its merchants meet mandatory requirements set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

PCI Compliance Solutions Provider, ControlScan

) March 1, 2009 -- Merchant Card Services, a division of Columbia Bank (merchantcardsvcs.com), a leading provider of card deposit processing, has joined forces with ControlScan (controlscan.com), a leading provider of PCI compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small- to medium-sized merchants, to help its merchants meet mandatory requirements set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

) July 26, 2009 - ControlScan (controlscan.com), the leading provider of PCI compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small merchants, today announced its participation on two committees of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA). Joan Herbig, chief executive officer, ControlScan has renewed her position on the Risk and Fraud Committee and Heather Varian Foster, vice president, marketing, ControlScan has joined the Education Committee.

) March 29, 2009 -- ControlScan, Inc. (controlscan.com), the leading provider of PCI compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small merchants, today announced the launch of version 2.0 of its PCI compliance offering, PCI 1-2-3. In addition to its core PCI compliance offerings, ControlScan's latest version includes a more robust Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and features a new Policy Builder to help small merchants achieve all requirements specified in the PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

) February 22, 2009 -- ControlScan, Inc. (controlscan.com), the leading provider of PCI compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small merchants, today announced that Steve Robb has joined the ControlScan executive team serving as vice president of operations.

) January 13, 2009 -- CRE Loaded, a leading open source eCommerce shopping cart software that powers nearly 200,000 online stores worldwide, announced today its partnership with ControlScan, a leading provider of PCI compliance and security solutions, focused exclusively on small- to medium-sized merchants.

) August 18, 2009 -- First American Payment Systems, L.P. ("First American"), one of the fastest growing electronic payments processors in the U.S., has partnered with Trustwave to create a program called PCI Smart in order to help merchants achieve and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the world.

) June 25, 2009 -- Element Payment Services announces the launch of the PCI Compliance Quiz Widget, created to help widen the knowledge base of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance.

The PCI compliance standards were developed by the major payment card brands, under the umbrella of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, in response to a recent growth in data security breaches. They apply to all businesses that handle payment cards.

) July 30, 2009 -- Addison, TX based Encore Payment Systems, www.EncorePS.com, a leader in the electronic payment processing industry, is proud to introduce the Encore Payment Systems iPhone Mobile Application.

This new application gives small business merchants, independent contractors and mobile merchants the ability to utilize Encore's payment processing solutions without a need for hardware processing equipment or a dedicated internet line.

) August 4, 2009 -- CRE Secure, the first cloud-based security payment system that is fully compliant with new credit card security rules, announces today that it has expanded its PCI compliant credit card processing security service with a new integrated connection to Authorize.net, the most popular payment gateway in North America. Online retailers and web based applications who take credit and debit cards using Authorize.net as their payment gateway can now sign up for CRE Secure PCI Security and still keep their existing connection to Authorize.net and their existing merchant banking relationships.

) March 30, 2009 -- Verrus Mobile Technologies Inc, a global leader in the mobile payment industry, is pleased to announce it has achieved compliance validation as a Level 1 service provider with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) - the industry's highest level of payment account data security certification.

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) February 5, 2009 -- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards compliance, commonly known as PCI DSS to many, is fast becoming a mandatory requirement for many merchants, service providers, and other third party processors and providers that are directly involved in the processing, storage, or transmission of transaction data or cardholder data. The who, what, when, where, and why of PCI DSS compliance can be daunting at times, as a vast amount of information must be read, comprehended and distilled for truly understanding the dynamics of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance.

The Merchant Solutions is a leading credit card processing and merchant services provider company. As a provider of an extensive range of payment processing services, the company establishes The Merchant Bills of Rights to help the small and mid-sized business owners to manage fairly the cost and complexity of debit and credit card processing practices. Well-planned as an industry standard, the Merchant Bill of Rights provides clear and simple presentation of processing cost of debit cards and credit cards.
The Merchant Bill of Rights provides following rights to debit and credit card holders.
The right to know exactly who is charging fee for every card payment transaction
The right to know the fee markups
The right to know the fee reductions

) December 15, 2008 -- Nodus Technologies, Inc. (www.nodus.com), a leading electronic payment solution provider is pleased to announce the completion of VISA PABP 2008 certification for their Credit Card Advantage product line, the leading integrated credit card payment application software platform in Microsoft Dynamics GP market.

) September 8, 2009 -- Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, today announced the release of a free payment module extension for the eCommerce platform Magento, a Varien company. Developed as an Open Source solution for the eCommerce marketplace, Magento is easy to use and simple to customize, allowing developers to create plug-ins and extensions to expand the platform`s capabilities for online merchants.

) October 9, 2008 -- Stradafee Limited is excited and proud to announce the offering of Domestic Credit Card Processing. Stradafee is an independent broker agent that assists merchants as well as merchant service providers to bring the best merchant account options to businesses located in the USA and throughout the world.

) September 4, 2009 -- Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), an industry-leading provider of secure, end-to-end payment solutions for merchants across all distribution channels, and ClaimLogic, a leader in providing revenue cycle management products and services in the healthcare industry, announced a partnership today that enables ClaimLogic to provide PCI-compliant credit card processing services to their client base.

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) August 17, 2009 -- Unifying IT controls simplifies compliance and cuts costs, as demonstrated by the recent release of The PCI Security Standards Council's "Wireless Security Guide," created in response to feedback from retailers and other businesses claiming that wireless guidance in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was too ambiguous.

) September 16, 2009 -- Latisys, a leading provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that BluePay, one of the leading full-service providers of credit card processing and merchant accounts, has selected Latisys for data center colocation and managed services.

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) March 29, 2009 -- Themerchantmaven.com is a new blog launched by a former American Express, retail and credit card processing industry veteran. He's also a marketing guy that likes taking a creative approach. The Merchant Maven is the advocate for retailers, restaurants and small businesses throughout America. He is on a mission to find the best credit card processing deals for small business merchants. He searches the web, the world and local neighborhoods to find these deals and publishes his research on his merchant maven blog.

) May 11, 2009 -- HostMySite announced today that it has successfully completed a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Report on Compliance (ROC) and has established itself as a PCI compliant service provider, meaning lower costs and lessened responsibilities to customers who utilize HostMySite dedicated server and colocation solutions. HostMySite contracted with Trustwave, a PCI Qualified Security Assessor, to perform a third party assessment of service offerings to customers looking for PCI security solutions.

) February 9, 2009 -- Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, this month announced the release of their new and ground breaking Merchant Account Affiliate Program. This is the first affiliate program in the Merchant Services industry that is fully capable of tracking offline phone call conversions, significantly increasing the earning potential of the program.

) October 8, 2009 -- Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), a leading merchant acquirer and payment processor, said today that the recent Visa release of data field encryption best practices provides welcome leadership to merchants, technology professionals, and vendors looking for practical ways to reduce the risk of data breach. EPX is the first payment processor to offer a true end-to-end solution that endorses and incorporates both tokenization and encryption for securing cardholder data from the card reader through the entire transaction lifecycle, and believes the Visa best practices validate their approach.

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) August 20, 2009 -- Convey Compliance Systems, Inc. the leader in on-demand 1099 tax information reporting services, and Paula Porpilia, nationally recognized tax compliance expert and founder of TIN Compliance Consultants, will hold an informational webinar on September 15, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. CDT. The webinar will prepare businesses that pay and process payment card transactions for new Merchant Acquirer tax reporting mandates under IRC Section 6050W, which is part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act.

) February 16, 2009 -- A few years ago the world's five leading payment card brands - American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard and Visa collaborated to create a world-wide standard for protecting consumer cardholder data.

) June 1, 2009 -- Assessors certified by the Payment Card Industry (PCI), a coalition of the world's leading credit card companies, have validated that the CRE Loaded ecommerce system is compliant with the newest data security standards.

These standards were enacted in response to the growing number of expensive data breaches. Starting Oct. 1, online retailers will no longer be allowed to host credit card transactions in non PCI-approved environments. Stores that aren't compliant can be fined, have their transaction fees raised, or even have their merchant accounts frozen.

) October 19, 2009 -- PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX: PIX), the global online business hosting provider, and Alert Logic, Inc., today announced a partnership in which PEER 1 will provide integrated IT-compliant intrusion detection and log management services for its e-commerce customers using Alert Logic's cloud-based IT compliance and security solutions.

) July 15, 2009 -- Nodus Technologies, Inc. (www.nodus.com), a leading business process automation solution provider announced the general availability of CRM Charge 4.0 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans.

The new CRM Charge 4.0 is the first off-the-shelf product that can be easily added-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM to provide real time credit card and electronic check processing.

) May 14, 2009 -- PDG Software, Inc., a leading provider of internet storefront and eCommerce shopping cart solutions, announced today the certification of PDG Commerce Version 5 as a PCI PA-DSS certified payment application. PDG Commerce now becomes the first internet shopping cart and storefront solution currently recommended for new deployments to achieve validation and certification with the Payment Card Industry Standard Security Council's (PCI SSC) Payment Application Data Security Standards (PA-DSS) program.

) September 5, 2009 -- On Aug. 31, with the release of Magellan Merchant, Magellan Commerce became the first one-stop shop for businesses looking for Web site, marketing and online-payment solutions. No company has ever offered an integrated ecommerce platform and merchant services until now.

"Online businesses don't have to go to several different companies to meet their basic business needs anymore," said Cameron Urry, Director of Marketing at eHarbor, Inc., Magellan Commerce's parent company. "We discovered a big need for low-cost merchant services, combined with superior Web design, which Magellan Commerce is already an expert at. Magellan Merchant fills this gap that most small businesses struggle with."

) November 1, 2008 -- Integrity Payment Systems today announced that bankcard security expert, Mr. David Press, has joined Integrity Payment Systems full time, reinforcing that merchant services company's commitment to controlling the fraud risk associated with credit card processing for merchants. David Press is a highly experienced credit card consultant, investigator and expert witness who has an extensive background in credit card operations, risk management, chargeback and collections, and fraud detection/investigation He has worked with numerous financial institutions and also possesses extensive experience working with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.

) March 8, 2009 -- SafPay Inc. (www.safpay.com) announced today that it has released a cash-based virtual mall card called Virtucard that gives customers greater control over their privacy when shopping online. Using Virtucard, shoppers can prevent personally identifiable information from being transmitted to online merchants when making purchases. Mimicking cash-only transactions in brick-and-mortar stores, Virtucard lets shoppers shop anonymously if they so choose.

) June 4, 2009 -- Why a merchant may need an offshore merchant account - Merchants, especially those that transact business internationally may find it beneficial to use an offshore or non-domestic bank to process their credit card transactions. This can benefit the merchant because many non-domestic banks have a lot of experience in multi-currency transaction processing and have high volume merchant account processing capabilities.

) May 4, 2009 -- GreenSoft Solutions, Inc. ("GSI") has successfully completed its annual security assessment and has again been validated as a compliant Level 1 Service Provider under the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). This extensive examination by a Qualified Security Assessor covered the operations and management of GSI's CompliantHost systems including its virtual infrastructure.

) September 24, 2008 -- rackAID, a leading provider of on-demand IT management services, has joined the Red Hat Partner Program as a Red Hat Ready Partner. The Red Hat Partner Program enhances rackAID's Linux operations by providing access to development, marketing and training programs.

) October 14, 2009 -- In order to better serve the needs of it's customers, BillingOrchard.com today announced full support for and integration with the FirstData Global Payment Gateway, giving customers more options for securely accepting and processing credit card payments online.

"BillingOrchard has been online since 2002 and has automated the electronic invoicing and credit card payment processing for hundreds of thousands of client's around the world." said Robyn McDevitt, Vice President of Customer Care for BillingOrchard.com.

YesPCI, the nation’s leading of Payment Card Industry (PCI) all-in-one solution, today named Rey Pasinli its chief compliance officer, charged with developing and implementing PCI compliance strategies for YesPCI’s online merchants.

) January 20, 2009 -- In a newly added article entitled, "Tracking Direct Mail Marketing is Imperative to Gain Direct Mail Results," Print and Mail Services .com explains why tracking is a key component in any direct mail marketing campaign. With accurate tracking, a business can hold the direct mail marketing company it has partnered with accountable. It also provides businesses with valuable information which will allow them to create successful marketing campaigns in the future.

) October 2, 2009 -- 100 Best, Inc., a leader in providing information on ecommerce services, recently recognized Merchant Warehouse as the best merchant account provider for businesses that accept credit cards. This recognition is given to the merchant account provider that has demonstrated its commitment to providing the best merchant accounts and merchant services possible.

) April 17, 2009 -- Mall Networks, the leading provider of merchant-funded loyalty shopping solutions, today announced that Tom Beecher, president and CEO of Mall Networks will speak at the upcoming 21st Annual Card Forum and Expo on April 20-22, 2009 in Marco Island, FL. The session will focus on how loyalty shopping programs can deliver compelling value propositions in a recession for both card issuers and consumers on a topic entitled: "Recession Marketing Silver Bullets: Driving Differentiation and Loyalty."