Industry Initiatives

This section is provided by Global Payments Canada as an information source to help you stay informed of pertinent industry changes, Visa®, MasterCard® and Interac® compliance requirements and other information about the electronic payments industry.

Card Associations

• Visa® Canada
• MasterCard® Canada
• Interac® Direct Payment (IDP)

• Visa® Branding
• MasterCard® Branding
• Interac® Branding

Security/Compliance and Other Important Card Association Updates

• Merchant Requirements for Securing Cardholder Information
• Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards for Merchants
• Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards for Service Providers
• Merchant Use of Third parties
• Fraud Protection
• Update: Diners Club® Cards Reissued with MasterCard® Brand
• Unembossed Cards
  • Unembossed VISA Cards
• Unembossed MasterCard Cards
• Canadian Association Updates
• Payment Card Industry Links
• PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC)
• American Express Data Security Standards (DSOP)
• JCB PCI DSS
• Discover Information Security and Compliance (DISC) program
• MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP) program
• Visa Account Information Security (AIS) Program
• List of Qualified Security Assessors (QSA)
• List of Approved Scanning Vendors (ASV)
• List of Visa AIS Compliant Service Providers
• List of Validated Payment Application

Security/Compliance Webinar Series
 
Global Payments’ new Security/Compliance Webinar Series is designed to provide merchants with in-depth information regarding Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. Hosted by Trustwave, a leading Qualified Security Assessor, these online events will cover a variety of important topics in data security and will help to provide you with the information you need to achieve and maintain your compliance to PCI DSS.