E-xact Transactions Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has achieved full compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS).

PCI DSS was developed globally to ensure merchants and service providers adopt best practices to enhance their payment account security. It was developed in 2004 by the card association, which includes: American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International. For more information about the PCI DSS visit www.pcisecuritystandards.org.

Being PCI compliant assures that with E-xact’s products and technology, merchant and cardholder data is protected by the industry’s highest security standards. [News Release, May 2007]

To find out more about PCI Compliance or for more details about E-xact’s status, please visit the PCI section of the Visa website and view our approved status on ‘Page 6′ of the official list of providers.

Beginning in August, 2007 E-xact will feature a series of blogs about PCI compliance in an effort to educate and inform about this global standard. You can view the entire series by following the PCI section of our blog.