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March 7, 2019

Your Contract Doesn’t Protect You: Recent Decision Should Make You Worry About Your Merchant Reserves

You are a merchant who does everything by the book. Should you have reservations about merchant contracts, especially how they treat reserves? Almost certainly, yes. Reserve […]
March 1, 2017

Think Chargebacks Are Bad? Look What Uncle Sam Can Do

The Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies have a newfound willingness to hold payment processors liable for the unlawful conduct of their merchants. This is […]
February 28, 2017

Hop to it When the Government Calls

Whether you are an ISO or a merchant level salesperson (MLS), odds are you will at some point receive an unexpected visit from a government agency. […]
February 20, 2017

Help Merchants Avoid Subscription Legal Headaches

Automatic renewal programs represent a cash cow for countless subscription businesses, especially when consumers renew those subscriptions at higher prices. But automatic renewals can also be […]
February 18, 2017

CNP Series: Lessons from a CNP Fraud Scheme – Part 4

Recently, the criminal case against online merchant Jeremy Johnson in Utah that started back in June 2011 finally came to a close. After more than four […]
February 16, 2017

CNP Series: Lessons from a CNP Fraud Scheme – Part 3

This is the third of four articles that will use the case to examine card-not-present fraud from a legal perspective. Part 1 described the case and […]
February 15, 2017

CNP Series: Lessons from a CNP Fraud Scheme – Part 2

Recently, the criminal case against online merchant Jeremy Johnson in Utah that started back in June 2011 finally came to a close. After more than four […]
February 14, 2017

Lessons from a CNP Fraud Scheme – Part 1

Late last month, the criminal case against Jeremy Johnson that started back in June 2011 finally came to a close. After more than four years of […]
February 13, 2017

Why You Need to Buy Insurance

Payment companies get sued. It is a normal course of business. They plan for it and they are willing to pay for it. The truth is, […]