Visa aligns global Service Provider levels
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Asia-Pacific, Card Brands, Europe, Service Provider | No Comments »Visa recently announced global PCI DSS deadlines, along with a very nuanced point of service provider alignment. Currently, many of the Visa regions have aligned service provider levels, but not all. For example, in Asia-Pacific the service provider levels vary ...
Visa sets global PCI DSS deadlines
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Asia-Pacific, Card Brands, Compliance, Europe, Merchant, PCI DSS, Service Provider | 2 Comments »Only days after Visa Asia-Pacific announced compliance deadlines within their region, Visa Inc. announced global compliance deadlines for all regions. (Thanks to Danny for pointing this out.) The deadlines apply to all Visa regions globally and appear to be a natural ...
PCI Adoption in Europe and Asia Pacific
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Asia-Pacific, Banking, Europe, Merchant, PCI DSS, PCI PIN | 6 Comments »Rob Newby blogs about the statistics and studies on the adoption of PCI compliance in Europe, based on the data points from a Register article with the same focus. The article states: European merchants are behind their US counterparts in getting ...
PCI DSS in multiple languages
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Asia-Pacific, Europe, PCI DSS | 2 Comments »Take note that the PCI DSS is available in multiple languages. Always be sure to check the PCI SSC website for updates on this. Currently, the Security Audit Procedures are available in the following languages: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) English French French Canadian German Japanese Korean Portuguese Spanish The French have ...
Asia-Pacific markets gain PCI momentum
Friday, May 18th, 2007 Posted in Asia-Pacific, Compliance, Credit Card Fraud, Merchant, PCI DSS | No Comments »I just finished a two week training tour in Australia, Japan, and Korea. It is a very interesting market with people asking lots of questions about PCI DSS compliance. The Asia-Pacific region has been active with Visa pushing ...
My acquirer won’t help, what next?
Monday, May 7th, 2007 Posted in Asia-Pacific, Merchant | 2 Comments »I'm in Sydney and Melbourne (Australia, aka. OZ) this week talking with merchants and they are less than happy with the communication they have received from their acquirers. Now this is only one side of the story, but the ...
Traveling to Asia-Pacific
Friday, April 27th, 2007 Posted in Asia-Pacific | 5 Comments »I'm in Paris for the next few days but then back again to the US for about 2 days before I get back on a plane to Sydney. (I tried to meet someone from Cybertrust who messaged me, ...
