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A Payment Facilitator (“PayFac”) is a company that offers an alternative to contracting with a traditional merchant acquirer or Independent Sales Organization (“ISO”) for card payment services by assuming responsibility for the risk, flow of funds, risk monitoring and ongoing support services for the payment acceptance services required to process transactions.
Businesses accepting card payments should prepare for extensive changes in Credit and Debit Card Interchange Rates and Card Network Fees coming in April 2022.
Upcoming interchange rate changes in regards to downgrades require merchants to review their processing costs and determine if network fee increases will impact their operating margins.
Regardless of whether a digital asset qualifies as a security, commodity, or some other regulated asset, BSA/AM/CFT obligations must be met.
A well-crafted payments contract will be clear and unambiguous. In this article, recent case law on conflicting contractual clauses is discussed.
A recent court decision determined that all third-party liabilities cannot be passed on to merchants; it all depends on the explicit drafting of the contract.
Payments contracts should be drafted carefully to ensure the contracts well represent the agreed upon allocation of risk.
BlackLine director Patrick Moran served as an expert witness in a matter alleging payments-related fraud and misrepresentations.
BlackLine director Courtney Rogers Perrin discusses regulations in the burgeoning, transnational industry of blockchain and cryptocurrency…
Cryptocurrency money transmitters must embrace compliance and implement sound controls which align with federal and state regulatory requirements….
