Visa clients must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), a comprehensive security standard intended to help organisations proactively protect customer account data. Visa acquirers that are directly connected to VisaNet and/or
Visa + Acquirers
Partner with Visa to develop new products and services that offer smarter payments solutions.
who process on behalf of other Visa clients must demonstrate PCI DSS compliance to Visa every 12 months. Visa has discretion to require any acquirer or its service providers to demonstrate compliance.
Services + solutions
Visa Performance Solutions
Acquirers play a critical role within the global payments infrastructure, and we are in a unique position to offer services, solutions and insights that contribute to your success. We work with you to expand your merchant portfolio, increase acceptance and reduce merchant attrition.
VisaVue® Online
VisaVue® Online (VVO) puts your latest transaction and benchmarking data from the world’s largest retail electronic payments network* in your hands. VVO gives you powerful insights into your portfolio quickly and easily by gathering transactional data, then interpreting and transforming it into easy-to-understand reports.
Visa Data Secure Platform
Visa DSP is made up of hardware and software point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and tokenisation.
This can help reduce PCI compliance costs by protecting data in flight and at rest.
- Deliver a standardised network solution for securing payments across all participants
- Use tokenisation to track sales data across retail locations and limit access to sensitive cardholder data
- Combine P2PE and tokenisation to minimise fraud.
Mobile Payment Solutions
Innovating mobile payment
Start offering point-of-sale solutions to enable acceptance of NFC and HCE mobile payments.
Resources
Data security compliance for service providers
Learn about the data security standards for service providers.
Visa Global Acquirer Risk Standards
All acquirers must comply with the requirements specified in the Visa Global Acquirer Risk Standards when managing merchant and third party agent relationships.
Training
Visa provides valuable information regarding the latest data security trends, data breaches and attack vectors, best practices and Visa compliance programmes through an on-going series of conferences, webinars and training sessions.