Merchant Advisory Services
PSC Merchant Advisory Services
PSC provides end-to-end consulting solutions for merchants wishing to outsource part, or all, of payments or security related efforts. PSC provides expert services that enable organizations to:
- Improve security over payments
- Reduce operational costs and improve profitability and efficiency
- Adhere to industry best practices and reduce liability
- Improve acceptance of payments in a rapidly changing industry
- Reduce fraud and risk
Services Include
Compliance Planning, Remediation, Assessment and Audit Services
- PCI and PA DSS (including CISP, SDP and AIS programs)
- AICPA trust services, including SysTrust, WebTrust and WebTrust CA
- SSAE16
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POI Implementation
PSC offers a program to aid in strategy, selection and implementation of emerging POI technologies, including EMV, NFC, Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE), tokenization and traditional PIN debit.
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Advisory and Maintenance
- Customized impact analysis of industry changes
- Yearly reviews of internal payments and security infrastructure against industry benchmarks
Risk and Fraud
- Analysis of current status
- Recommendations on changes
- Best practices
- Potential areas of combating fraud and risk
Financial
- Financial models of current acceptance and pricing
- What-if scenarios for:
- Acceptance of additional payment types
- Addition of emerging payments
- Changing of processors
- Changes in fraud/risk parameters
Security
- Securing of payment and customer information
- Best practices in security architecture
- Policy and procedures development
Technology
- Analysis and recommendations on current systems vs. best practices and strategic alternatives
- Integration of payment platforms or gateways
- Integration of security products or infrastructure
- Integration of risks products
- Outsourcing alternatives
Strategic
- Payment acceptance and processor recommendations
- International acceptance
- Special card programs, including:
- Affinity cards
- Stored value
- Closed-loop private label programs
- Emerging payment types, including:
- RFID
- Micro-payments
- Mobile payments
- E-checks