processing credit card payments

Risky Business: What Startups Don’t Know About Processing Credit Card Payments

Startups are in a precarious position when it comes to processing credit card payments online. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, these businesses have two options: risk it with a traditional merchant account provider or open shop with a disruptive payments technology like Stripe or PayPal. It may not seem like a tough decision…

Online Gambling Merchant Accounts

What is the Best Bet for International Online Gambling Merchant Accounts?

Online gambling merchants are some of the most high risk business models out there for banks. As such, online gambling merchant accounts are hard to come by. The reputation risk of being associated with gambling along with heightened fraud and money laundering risks can alienate major mainstream banks and credit card processors from offering a merchant…