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PCI Compliance and What It Means for Your Business

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PCI Compliance and What It Means for Your Business

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Allied Wallet is an Internet payment service provider built on a foundation of safety and security. Allied Wallet’s payment processing system protects customers’ financial information by adhering to multiple top compliances and certifications, including PCI DSS Level 1 compliance.

PCI DSS is short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards. PCI compliance is divided into four levels, with Level 1 being the highest. The standard was created in a joint effort from major credit card companies like Visa, Discover, JCB, American Express, and MasterCard to help protect both consumers and merchants. To reach PCI DSS Level 1 compliance, a merchant must process over 6 million Visa transactions annually.

If a customer buys something from your website and has her financial data stolen, it may lead to serious fines if your business is not PCI compliant. For each incident, a business can be charged up to $500,000 for not complying with PCI standards. Additionally, merchants may lose the ability to accept payments from the credit cards mentioned above, which could potentially cripple a business.

Using a PCI-compliant shopping gateway like Allied Wallet takes that responsibility off of your business, as the payment gateway provider becomes responsible for maintaining PCI compliance. Since the provider handles and processes all payments, you never handle a customer’s credit card information directly despite still making the sale.

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Eagle and Badge Foundation Helps Lift up an Entire Community

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Eagle and Badge Foundation Helps Lift up an Entire Community

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One of the world’s leading providers of merchant payment processing services, Allied Wallet has worked since 2002 to ensure the easiest possible e-commerce transactions for companies and their customers. Just as it assists small businesses and major corporations, Allied Wallet continues to be a trusted source for consumers who use the company’s eWallet app to safeguard their personal information while they enjoy the convenience of online buying. The West Hollywood, California-based company also supports a number of worthy causes, including the Eagle and Badge Foundation in Los Angeles.

The Eagle and Badge Foundation works through the Los Angeles Police Protective League to fund scholarships for police officers and their families. It also helps to pay for community-centered programs in and around the city. Through the foundation, retired, current, and injured officers and their families receive additional needed benefits, as do the loved ones of those fallen in the line of duty.

In the past, the Eagle and Badge Foundation has provided a service dog to an officer’s child diagnosed with autism, funded eye surgery for an officer whose insurance would not cover the operation, aided in defraying funeral costs for officers’ relatives, and helped with family members’ hospitalization and treatment expenses.

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Allied Wallet is a West Hollywood-based e-commerce and payment processing firm that currently serves a user base of more than 150 million. An award winning firm founded in 2002, Allied Wallet focuses on simple, secure, and efficient service offerings and currently accepts 164 different global currencies.

Allied Wallet complements its services by offering a new application known as SWIPE. SWIPE is a mobile point of sale device that connects with iOS and Android smartphones. The system, which features transaction low rates that start under two percent, integrates with the Allied Wallet mobile application to ensure efficient and seamless transactions.

A secure device, SWIPE encrypts all data per EMV requirements and is DSS certified, which is a proprietary security standard under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). In addition, customers have the choice of using either magnetic stripe or chip technology on payment cards to complete transactions on SWIPE, and can receive transaction receipts electronically. More information on SWIPE, which accepts all major credit cards, can be found at www.alliedwallet.com.

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Allied Wallet is a payment processing and e-commerce firm that maintains a global presence and a focus on simple and secure solutions. An EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, Allied Wallet specializes in service offerings such as multi-currency merchant services, software development, and digital e-wallet solutions.

A digital wallet is an increasingly popular electronic payment system that allows transactions to be completed by storing all a consumer's required payment information. Popular with websites and mobile applications such as iOS and Android, digital wallets utilize near-field communications technology and reduce the need for physical items such as a wallet, debit card, and credit card. Other benefits of digital wallets include:

1. The ability to integrate consumer loyalty account information, coupons, and advertisements.

2. The capability to provide a simplified and quick payment process, especially when incorporated into a smart phone application

3. A safe and secure payment method, due to encryption, coding, and other protections including fingerprint approvals for some systems.

4. The ability to provide merchants with detailed reporting and analytics on consumers' purchasing habits.

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The Eagle and Badge Foundation Funds Traffic Safety Mural

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The Eagle and Badge Foundation Funds Traffic Safety Mural

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Utilizing leading-edge technologies, Allied Wallet provides clients all over the world with a range of e-commerce solutions and merchant services. Allied Wallet supports several charitable ventures, including the Eagle and Badge Foundation (EBF), a philanthropic group created to support projects that benefit communities in Los Angeles.

The EBF maintains a fund that accepts donations, with money from the fund used in an array of projects. One of the most recent projects is a traffic safety mural that warns of the dangers of driving unsafely.

Proposed by a Los Angeles Police Department officer named Steve Rose, the mural is a response to California Department of Transportation efforts to use artwork along freeways to encourage change in communities. The mural, which looks back to the 1960s and '70s when street art was prominent throughout Los Angeles, shows a motorcycle police officer signaling to motorists and telling them to “Buckle Up.”Utilizing leading-edge technologies, Allied Wallet provides clients all over the world with a range of e-commerce solutions and merchant services. Allied Wallet supports several charitable ventures, including the Eagle and Badge Foundation (EBF), a philanthropic group created to support projects that benefit communities in Los Angeles.

The EBF maintains a fund that accepts donations, with money from the fund used in an array of projects. One of the most recent projects is a traffic safety mural that warns of the dangers of driving unsafely.

Proposed by a Los Angeles Police Department officer named Steve Rose, the mural is a response to California Department of Transportation efforts to use artwork along freeways to encourage change in communities. The mural, which looks back to the 1960s and '70s when street art was prominent throughout Los Angeles, shows a motorcycle police officer signaling to motorists and telling them to “Buckle Up.”

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Keeping Payment Information Secure Online

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Keeping Payment Information Secure Online

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For more than 10 years, Allied Wallet has provided e-commerce solutions for a wide variety of online merchants. Allied Wallet is committed to helping clients keep their customers' information safe and secure.

When you pay online, you trust that the merchant has taken steps to keep your information secure. However, that merchant can only safeguard the information as the site has received it. You also have a role to play in ensuring that your information stays out of the hands of potential identity thieves.

First, you must take care that the site or customer representative is genuine. Fraud perpetrators often create a site to masquerade as an e-commerce company, though they do not always do so skillfully. If a site looks odd, or if a representative contacts you directly, claiming to be from a particular company, you can begin to verify authenticity by navigating directly to the company site and cross-checking appearances or credentials.

When you do make a payment, you can protect yourself by ensuring that you are doing so in private and that no one can watch you make a payment or enter a password in person. Passwords should be unique enough that someone who is not there with you cannot easily guess it, and it should be written down in code or otherwise guarded if you need to record it.

Online shoppers should be particularly mindful of their Social Security numbers and should be wary of any site that asks for them, as these may be masquerades or otherwise fraudulent sites. If you have this information recorded anywhere on your computer, you should take care to delete or move that document if your computer passes out of your hands, and you must never give it directly to any organizational representative whose identity you have not verified. This is a crucial step in ensuring that your most sensitive information stays as safe as possible.

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Allied Wallet continues to revolutionize the e-commerce industry by introducing new and innovative payment processing solutions for online

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Exclusive interview with Allied Wallet CEO Andy Khawaja - Part 1 of 2

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Globe-trotting Allied Wallet CEO Andy Khawaja takes time out to talk to PaymentEye at his London headquarters. Andy gives an insight into the Allied Wallet service offering, its ethos and how he keeps tabs on a rapidly expanding global business.