Season’s Greetings from CommerceGate

We want to inform you of the upcoming changes in the UK and the European cards processing. From the 1st of January 2021, the United Kingdom is no longer part of the EEA, Mastercard and Visa have announced revisions to interchange rates applicable to the payment transactions between the UK and the EEA. The new […]

On the 14th of April 2021, Mastercard issued an updated set of rules and requirements for Merchants operating with the content for Adults within “AN 5196 Revised Standards for New Specialty Merchant Registration Requirements for Adult Content Merchants” (see https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/protecting-our-network-protecting-you-preventing-illegal-adult-content-on-our-network/). The updated list of Mastercard requirements aims to prevent the distribution of illegal adult content across the […]

Desde enero de 2021, el Reino Unido ya no forma parte de la Unión Europea. Como consecuencia, Mastercard ha anunciado un nuevo Acuerdo de Servicios Comerciales (BSA) que tendrá un impacto en las tarifas de las transacciones en el comercio electrónico entre el Reino Unido y la Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE). Actualmente las transacciones entre […]

January 2021, the United Kingdom is no longer a part of the European Union. As a consequence, Mastercard is announcing a new Business Service Arrangement (BSA) which will impact on interchange fees for UK-EEA consumer card-not-present transactions. These transactions between the UK and EEA countries are currently charged  0.20% for debit cards 0.30% for credit […]