June 15, 2005

Visa USA adds antifraud tool

Visa touted its new antifraud tool tool that "allows merchants to instantly check transactions in stores or online, so they can identify fraud before a transaction is completed."

Visa's announcement:

    Jean Bruesewitz, a senior vice president of processing and emerging products for the company, said advanced authorization adds 10 bytes of additional information to the data sent to card-issuing banks and card-processing companies after a credit card is used. That new information provides a vertical view of the previous and existing spending patterns on the card account and a horizontal look at transactions occurring in real-time across the credit card network.

Posted by volubis at June 15, 2005 12:10 AM