March 1, 2019
The credit card brands’ rules and the state laws regarding credit card surcharges, cash discounts, and service fees are something that only a lawyer could love. […]
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June 12, 2018
Accepting Bitcoin for Payments: The Legal Basics Part 3 of 3 In the first two parts of this three-part blog series, we reviewed a number of […]
May 30, 2018
Cryptocurrencies, peer-to-peer digital currencies whose value is not determined by a central bank like the United States Federal Re serve but rather through a series […]
June 8, 2017
Disaster has struck. Your merchant ID was shut down, leaving you unable to process credit-card payments. What happens next? For instance, are you put on Match? […]
March 3, 2017
Late last month, Pennsylvania issued an advisory that its money transmitter regulations are violated when payments companies–payment facilitators and ISOs–collect money from consumers and forward it […]
March 1, 2017
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
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 27, 2017
Every week, I get a call from an agent or ISO (whom we will simply call the “agent”) complaining that an ISO or other upstream processing […]
February 26, 2017
Processing payments for legitimate, state-licensed marijuana-related businesses remains risky. Although a number of community banks have tested the waters with such payments, no safe harbor from […]