Season’s Greetings from CommerceGate

In the series of Trade Dialogue lectures/Webinar series organised by WTO and ITU, CommerceGate took part in the panel discussion dedicated to the trading implication of cyber-security risks and confidence-building. During the panel discussion, the participants shared their views on the current state of cyber-security at a global level, identified gaps in cyber-security regulation and […]

CommerceGate were excited to invited to the second session of the WTO Trade Dialogues initiative and present how cross-border data flows are key within the Global Ecommerce Payments Industry. Please, see our CCO – Paul Barclay explain how and where data flows fit into the equation to make an online payment! Youtu.be >> International trade increasingly relies […]

From 17th of October 2020, VISA is introducing new Merchant registration requirements for a number of MCCs and business types. Merchants subject to new registration requirements, based on the information available to Commercegate from our upstream Acquirers, would be subject to a 500 USD annual fee for VISA registration (similar to MRP program by MasterCard). Merchants in […]

Wirecard collapses owing $4 billion To all the affected merchants and partners of this sad news, going forward we will all need to undertake our own thorough due diligence and choose our future payment partners carefully, checking their heritage, their regulator and satisfy every test; especially around segregated client funds and security. Transparency, Stability, Contingency […]